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2008-06

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  • 100x100px|IBM Roadrunner
  • June 10: Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes on landing at Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, Sudan, killing dozens.
  • June 9: IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner (pictured).
  • June 9: Following a coal mine collapse in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, 24 miners are rescued with 12 still missing and one reported dead.
  • June 8: Seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
  • June 8: The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.
  • June 7: In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanović win the singles titles in the 2008 French Open.
  • June 6: The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time.
• June 5: Israeli minister Shaul Mofaz threatens an attack on Iran's nuclear program.
• June 5: Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles.
• 100x100px|Uganda rebel leader Joseph Kony
• June 5: In ice hockey, the Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup by defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games in the 2008 Finals.
• June 4: Zimbabwean police briefly detain foreign diplomats and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai before the second round of the presidential election.
• 100x100px|Rafael Nadal
• June 3: Senator Barack Obama secures the Democratic Party nomination in the U.S. Presidential campaign, the first African American ever to do so.
• 100x100px|Ana Ivanović
• 100x100px|Photograph of Ainu Man from 1880
• June 2: The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes a declaration allowing foreign naval vessels to enter Somali territorial waters to deal with pirates.
• June 2: A car bomb explodes outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least five.
• 100x100px|Turkish woman wearing a hijab in Kalkan market
• 80px|Stanley Cup Most Valuable Player Henrik Zetterberg
• June 1: The Australian Army ends its combat role in Iraq, as about 500 troops withdraw from Nasiriyah.
• 80px|Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
• June 1: In the Republic of Macedonia, the governing Christian democratic VMRO–DPMNE wins a landslide victory in parliamentary elections amid reports of violence in ethnic Albanian areas.
• June 1: Usain Bolt of Jamaica sets a new world record in the 100 metre sprint of 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York.
• June 1: In rugby union, the Crusaders defeat the New South Wales Waratahs in the 2008 Super 14 Final.
• 80px|Portrait of U.S. Senator Barack Obama