Saturday, February 21, 2009

Scene 5 - June 1995

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June 1 - The busiest hurricane season in 62 years begins.
June 2 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina, while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
June 2 - SS Captain Erich Priebke is extradited from Argentina to Italy.
June 6 - U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard breaks NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station Mir.
June 8 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
June 13 - French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
June 15 - During his murder trial, O.J. Simpson puts on a pair of gloves that were presumably worn by the person who murdered his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman.
June 15 - A powerful earthquake, registering a moment magnitude of 6.2, hits the city of Egion, Greece, resulting in several deaths and significant damage to many buildings.
June 20 - Oil multinational Royal Dutch Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig at sea.
June 22 - Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.
Atlantis docked to Mir for the first time on June 29, 1995.
June 24 - The New Jersey Devils sweep the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings to win their first Stanley Cup in the lock-out shortened season.
June 24 - South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup.
June 29 - Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.
June 29 - STS-71: Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.
June 29 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
June 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.

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