Events in June 2004
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Jun. 1
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Iraq's new interim Government under President, Ghazi al-Yawar is sworn into office in Baghdad. |
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Jun. 2
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Jennifer Hawkins (20), an Australian dancer and model, is crowned Miss Universe 2004 in a two-hour pageant in the Ecuador capital, Quito. |
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Jun. 3
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Safomi Mitarai (12), a Japanese school girl is murdered by her classmate at an elementary school in Sasebo. |
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Sher Bahadur Deuba is sworn in Nepal's Prime Minister. |
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Jun. 4
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The U.S. President, George W. Bush, presents Pope John Paul II (84), with America's highest civilian order, the Medal of Freedom, at the Vatican. |
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Jun. 5
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Ceremonies commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Allied landings in France during WW II gets under way on the beaches of Normandy. |
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Jun. 8
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Skygazers worldwide witness the rare spectacle of a tiny Venus passing across the face of the Sun, an event that last happened in 1882. |
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Jun. 9
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The U.N. Security Council endorses the new Iraqi Government. |
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Jun. 10
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Black British writer Andrea Levy's Small Island bags the £3,30,000 Orange Prize, Britain's literary prize for women writers. |
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Jun. 14
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Anti-E.U. parties score well in historic polls to the 732-member Parliament spread over 4 days and involving 350 million voters across 25 nations. |
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Jun. 18
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Al-Qaeda militants behead an American engineer, Paul Marshall Johnson, after abducting him in the Saudi capital Riyadh on June 12. |
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Portugal's Supreme Court overturns a lower Lisbon court decision to grant India's request for the extradition of Abu Salem. |
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Jun. 21
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A rocket plane SpaceShipOne piloted by Michael W.Melvill, the first privately manned space flight after a successful trip lands in Mojave, California. |
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Jun. 22
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Iraqi militants behead a South Korean hostage, Kim Sun-il (33), in Baghdad after Seoul refuses to withdraw troops. |
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Belgium's most reviled criminal Marc Dutroux (47), gets lifer for a spate of child kidnappings, rapes and murders. |
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Over 100 persons are killed in a raid by Chechen rebels on Ingushetia, a Russian region neighbouring Chechnya. |
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Jun. 24
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At least 85 persons are killed in attacks by insurgents across Central and Northern Iraq. |
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Jun. 26
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Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali quits as Pakistan Prime Minister. |
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Jun. 28
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The U.S. hands over political authority to Iraq at a ceremony in Baghdad's high security 'green zone'. |
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Jun. 30
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The Iraqi Interim Government takes the former President, Saddam Hussein into 'legal custody'. |
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