What Happened in June 2019

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• Jun 1 Mexican-American boxer Andy Ruiz Jr produces a huge upset when he stops English champion Anthony Joshua in 7 at Madison Square Garden; wins IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA world heavyweight titles
• Jun 1 Price of a movie ticket rises in Japan for the first time in 26 years from ¥1,800 to ¥1,900, while some cinemas keep the price the same
• Jun 1 UEFA Champions League Final, Madrid: Liverpool beats Tottenham, 2-0 for Reds' 6th title

• Jun 2 US Open Women's Golf, CC of Charleston: Lee Jeong-eun of South Korea wins her first major title; beats runners-up Lexi Thompson, Agel Yin and Ryu So-yeon by 2 strokes
• Jun 3 Apple announces it is shutting down iTunes and replacing it with three different apps
• Jun 3 Canadian government inquiry find deaths of over 1,000 indigenous women and girls over decades who have been murdered or are missing a "national genocide"

• Jun 3 MLB Draft: Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman first pick by Baltimore Orioles
• Jun 3 Sudanese military attacks protesters in Khartoum killing 100 people, some dumped in the river Nile, prompting international condemnation
• Jun 3 US federal government departments and Congress begin anti-trust investigations into large tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon

• Jun 4 Deforestation of the Amazon forest in Brazil the fastest for a decade as 740 square kilometers cleared in 30 days according to Brazilian space research institute
• Jun 4 Former US school security guard Scot Peterson arrested and charged with neglect of a child and culpable negligence for not confronting gunman during Parkland school massacre in a landmark case
• Jun 4 Movement in Japan to end compulsory wearing of high heels in work places trends with hashtag #KuToo

• Jun 4 Professional gambler James Holzhauer's 32-game winning steak ends on "Jeopardy" just short of Ken Jenning's record $2.52m earnings
• Jun 4 SF MLB manager Bruce Bochy reaches 1,000 win mark with the club as Giants beat Mets, 9-3 in NYC; second after legendary John McGraw to reach milestone

• Jun 5 Average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes in similar amount according to first-ever such study published in journal "Environmental Science and Technology"
• Jun 5 Denmark general election won by Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats, defeating sitting Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen's Liberal party
• Jun 5 Ohio doctor William Husel charged with 25 counts of murder for prescribing potentially fatal doses of opioids in Franklin County
• Jun 6 Amir Ohana becomes the first openly gay minister in Israel as acting justice minister
• Jun 6 German serial killer nurse Niels Hoegel jailed for a second life sentence for the murder of 85 more people (previously convicted for six). Germany's worst post-war serial killer.

• Jun 7 More than four million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to its economic crisis according to the UN
• Jun 8 151st Belmont Stakes: Sir Winston with 2014 winner Joel Rosario aboard claims victory at 10-1
• Jun 8 Albanian President Ilir Meta cancels nationwide local elections amid constitutional crisis after the opposition refuses to participate until Prime Minister Edi Rama resigns
• Jun 8 French Open Women's Tennis: Australian Ashleigh Barty beats Czech teenager Markéta Vondroušová 6-1, 6-3 to win her first Grand Slam singles title
• Jun 9 1st UEFA Nations League Final, Porto: Guedes scores as Portugal win inaugural tournament final, 1-0 over the Netherlands

• Jun 9 95 people killed in attack on Dogon village Sobame Da in central Mali by suspected Fulani group
• Jun 9 Ali Stroker becomes the first actress in a wheelchair to win a Tony award for musical "Oklahoma!"

• Jun 9 General strike begins in Khartoum, Sudan, as a protest against ruling military generals by the Sudanese Professionals Association
• Jun 9 Over 1 million people protest in Hong Kong over proposed new extradition laws to China in one of largest-ever protests in the city
• Jun 10 Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrested on corruption charges
• Jun 10 New DNA research on grapes shows one French wine Savagnin Blanc has been grown for 900 years in Jura published in "Nature Plants"
• Jun 10 Three men sentenced to life imprisonment for rape and murder of eight-year-old Muslim girl in Kathua, India in high-profile case that sparked political resignations and nationwide protests

• Jun 11 Botswana overturns law criminalizing same-sex relationships from colonial-era in landmark African LGBTQ case

• Jun 11 Russian journalist Ivan Golunov released from prison and drug charges dropped after major public outcry with unprecedented joint campaign by Russian news sources
• Jun 11 WHO confirms first case of Ebola virus in Uganda, spread from outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
• Jun 12 Earliest evidence of humans smoking cannabis discovered in 2,500-year-old grave in Pamir Mountains, China, published in "Science Advances"
• Jun 12 Same-sex marriage approved by Ecuador's Constitutional Court in landmark ruling
• Jun 12 Stanley Cup Final, TD Garden, Boston, MA: St. Louis Blues beat Boston Bruins, 4-1 for a 4-3 series victory; first title in franchise history
• Jun 12 Violent protests in Hong Kong as tens of thousands of protesters block and try to storm government buildings to stop extradition law
• Jun 12 World’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund, worth $1 trillion, gets authorization to drop fossil fuel investments from Norway's government
• Jun 13 Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge
• Jun 13 Kenyan MP Rashid Kassim arrested for slapping female MP Fatuma Gedi, following a walk out of parliament by female MPs after claiming male MPs joked "its slapping day"

• Jun 13 President Donald Trump announces Sarah Sanders will be leaving her position as White House Press Secretary

• Jun 14 Petition to create world's first "time free zone" on Sommaroy island which has complete daylight for 2 months, delivered to the Norwegian parliament
• Jun 14 Swiss women hold a national strike over the country's slow pace towards equality
• Jun 15 Anthony Davis's opera "The Central Park Five" premieres at the Long Beach Opera Company, California (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2020) [1]

• Jun 16 India imposes retaliatory tariffs on 28 US goods
• Jun 16 Massive unprecedented power cut affects all of Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Paraguay

• Jun 16 Three suicide bomb attacks kill 30 people in Konduga, north east Nigeria

• Jun 17 Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, Kate Gallego apologies for local police threatening to shoot African American family after their four-year shoplifted a doll
• Jun 17 Michael R. Jackson's musical "Ä Strange Loop" opens off-Broadway in New York (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2020) [1]
• Jun 18 Chennai, India's 6th largest city with 4 million people, runs out of water as its reservoirs dry up
• Jun 18 China has been forcefully harvesting organs from marginalized groups in prison camps on a significant scale according to International Tribunal in London
• Jun 18 England cricket captain Eoin Morgan smashes a ODI world record 17 sixes against Afghanistan in his side's 150-run World Cup victory at Old Trafford; Morgan, 148 from 71 balls
• Jun 18 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announces the suspension of the pro-China and highly controversial extradition law, after massive protests in the city
• Jun 18 Sex-changing Australian bush tomato study published in journal "PhytoKeys" detailing how Solanum Plastisexum can change from male to female to hermaphrodite
• Jun 18 Two 14 year-old boys become the youngest in Irish history to be convicted of murder when found guilty of the murder and sexual assault of a 14 year-old girl in Dublin
• Jun 18 US President Donald Trump announces his campaign for re-election

• Jun 19 UN says over 70 million people in the world are displaced, asylum seekers or refugees around the world, their highest-ever number in 70 years
• Jun 19 US NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere found guilty in New York court of racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography
• Jun 19 US Senators receive a classified briefing on possible UFO sightings by the US Navy

• Jun 20 Iran shoots down a US drone over the Straits of Hormuz escalating tension between the two countries
• Jun 20 NBA Draft: Duke power forward Zion Williamson first pick by New Orleans Pelicans
• Jun 20 Oregon Governor Kate Brown authorizes police to round up 11 Republican state senators who have gone into hiding to stop vote on cap-and-trade proposal emissions bill
• Jun 20 Shares for messaging site Slack start trading on the New York Stock Exchange to give it a valuation of $19.5 billion
• Jun 21 NHL Draft: US NTDP center Jack Hughes first pick by New Jersey Devils

• Jun 22 Attempted coup fails in Ethiopia, four officials killed including army chief of staff General Seare Mekonnen
• Jun 22 Russian volcano Raikoke erupts from 700m-wide-crater, seen from International Space Station. Turns sunsets purple across the Northern Hemisphere all summer.
• Jun 22 Seven-story building collapses in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, with at least 25 construction workers sleeping inside killed

• Jun 23 Biggest protests in Prague since the fall of communism against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, with estimated 250,000 in Letna Plain park
• Jun 23 Turkey's ruling AK party lose the re-run of Istanbul's mayoral election to Ekrem Imamoglu of the Republican People's Party
• Jun 23 Women's PGA Championship, Hazeltine National GC: Australian Hannah Green leads wire-to-wire to win her first LPGA event by 1 stroke ahead of Park Sung-hyun

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• Jun 28 Canadian songwriter and record producer David Foster (69) weds American singer-actress Katharine McPhee (35) - his fifth, her second - at St. Yeghiche Armenian Apostolic Church in Kensington, England

• Jun 1 José Antonio Reyes, Spanish soccer left wing (Spain 21 caps; Sevilla, Atlético Madrid, Arsenal), dies in a car crash at 35
• Jun 1 Leah Chase 'Queen of Creole Cuisine', New Orleans chef and author, dies at 96
• Jun 2 Lowell North, American yachtsman (Olympic Gold 1968) and sailmaker (North Sails), dies at 89
• Jun 3 Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese writer (A Sibila), dies at 96
• Jun 3 Ruma Guha Thakurta, Indian singer, actress, and founder of Calcutta Youth Choir, dies at 84
• Jun 4 Jiggs Kalra, Indian food writer "Czar of Indian cuisine", dies at 72
• Jun 4 Lennart Johansson, Swedish soccer administrator (President Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) 1990–2007), dies at 89
• Jun 5 Robert Earle, American TV host (GE College Bowl), dies at 93

• Jun 8 Arthur Frackenpohl, American composer, arranger, and pedagogue (Natural Superiority of Music), dies at 95
• Jun 9 Gerlind Reinshagen, German novelist, children's book author, and playwright (Himmel und Erde (Heaven and Earth)), dies at 93
• Jun 10 Chuck Glaser, American country singer (Tompall & the Glaser Brothers), dies at 83
• Jun 10 Girish Karnad, Indian playwright and filmmaker (Tuglaq), dies at 81
• Jun 10 Ib Nørholm, Danish organist, composer (Aspects of Sand and Simplicity), choral conductor, and educator, dies at 88 [1]
• Jun 10 Lee Hee-ho, Korean activist and first lady for her husband President Kim Dae-jung, dies at 96
• Jun 10 Sven-David Sandström, Swedish composer (Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy), dies of cancer at 76
• Jun 11 Martin Feldstein, American economist (1977 John Bates Clark Medal), chief economic adviser to President Reagan, dies at 79
• Jun 12 Sylvia Miles, American actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely), dies at 94
• Jun 13 Charles M. Wilson, Canadian organist and composer (The Angels Of The Earth), dies at 88
• Jun 13 Pierre DuMaine, American Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 87
• Jun 15 Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director (Romeo & Juliet), dies at 96
• Jun 17 Gloria Vanderbilt, American fashion designer, artist, heiress and socialite, dies at 95

• Jun 19 Anthony Hedges, British light music and orchestral composer (Humberside Cantata), dies at 88
• Jun 21 Elliot Roberts [Rabinowitz] American music manager (Joni Mitchell; Neil Young), and label executive (Asylum Records), dies at 76
• Jun 21 Jan Meyers, American politician (Rep-R-Kansas, 1985-97), dies at 90
• Jun 21 Peter Ball, British Church of England clergyman (Bishop of Gloucester. 1992-93; Bishop of Lewes, 1977-92), and convicted sex offender, dies at 87
• Jun 21 William Simons, Welsh actor (Heartbeat - "PC Alf Ventress"), dies at 78
• Jun 22 Judith Krantz (née Tarcher), Jewish-American fashion writer and novelist (Scruples, Princess Daisy; Dazzle), dies at 91
• Jun 23 Dave Bartholomew, American R&B, rock, and jazz musician, composer, producer, and songwriter ("I Hear You Knocking"; "Ain't That A Shame"; "Walkin' To New Orleans"), dies at 100
• Jun 24 Billy Drago, American character actor, specializing in roles as a villain (Pale Rider; The Untouchables), dies from stroke complications at 73
• Jun 25 Ken Behring, American real estate developer, NFL team owner (Seattle Seahawks, 1988-97), and philanthropist dies at 91
• Jun 26 Beth Chapman, American bounty hunter and reality star (Dog the Bounty Hunter), dies of cancer at 51
• Jun 26 Eugene Alcalay, Romanian concert pianist, composer, and educator, dies of a heart attack at 52
• Jun 26 Max Wright, American character actor (Buffalo Bill; Alf; Misfits of Science), dies of lymphoma at 75
• Jun 29 Gary Duncan [Grubb], American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service), dies of cardiac arrest at 72
• Jun 30 Doug Ford, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (successful NSW of 50's), dies at 90