Historical Events for June 2004

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2nd - Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.
6th - Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
8th - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
11th - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
11th - Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.
12th - A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
21st - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
23rd - Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university
24th - In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
28th - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
28th - The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
28th - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.


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