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Politics and elections Media freedom in Russia Several people, protesting Meduza investigative journalist Ivan Golunov's arrest Thursday on drug charges, are themselves arrested outside Moscow's Nikulinsky Court. Others were arrested yesterday. His lawyer says drugs were planted on him. Golunov was taken to a hospital, police say because he said he was ill. Meduza says he was beaten up during ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year ... (d. 2019) [72] 1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis ...
Events. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.; 1789 – James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Disasters and accidents Twenty-nine people are injured in a fire at a center used as temporary accommodation for about 500 migrants in the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa. (Reuters) An explosion at a Russian Military high-explosive production and storage facility in the city of Dzerzhinsk injures 79 people. (BBC News) Six earthquakes, the first 5.3 M w, in a two-hour period near ...
On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY’) was signed in France, ending the First World War. In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. George G ...
Kim Clijsters (born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian tennis player who competed professionally from 1997 to 2012. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, she won four Grand Slam singles titles, including three US Open championships.
June 9, 2019 – A construction crane falls on an apartment complex in Dallas, killing 1 person and injuring 6. [19] June 14, 2019 – One person dies and two more are injured after a gunman entered a Costco in Southern California. July 26, 2019 – The Supreme Court rules in a 5–4 vote to give President Trump $2.5 billion to fund his wall.
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