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• The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (leader Joseph Kony pictured).
• In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanović win the singles titles in the 2008 French Open.
• The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time.
• Israeli minister Shaul Mofaz threatens an attack on Iran's nuclear program.
• Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles.
• In ice hockey, the Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup by defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games in the 2008 Finals.
• Zimbabwean police briefly detain foreign diplomats and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai before the second round of the presidential election.

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ... that Uri-On (pictured), created by Michael Netzer in 1987, was the first Israeli superhero to be published in color?
• ... that the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars increased in size from 40,000 regular troops to over 250,000?
• ... that Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time?
• ... that Mary's Point in New Brunswick, Canada has the world's highest density of Corophium volutator, a crustacean which is a food source of millions of Semipalmated Sandpipers?
• ... that Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by president Pervez Musharraf's admiration for Turkey's model of modernism and secularism?
• ... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles?
  

June 9: Shavuot (Judaism, 2008); St. Colmcille's Day in Ireland

• 68 – Roman Emperor Nero (bust pictured) committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.
• 1310 – Italian artist Duccio's Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, was unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
• 1772 – In an act of defiance against the Navigation Acts, American patriots led by Abraham Whipple attacked and burned the British schooner HMS Gaspée.
• 1856 – Mormon pioneers began leaving Iowa City, Iowa and headed west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1928 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed their Southern Cross aircraft in Brisbane, completing the first ever trans-Pacific flight from the United States mainland to Australia.

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