iJunoon Archives |2014 | June

The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.

Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio

At Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.

The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.

The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.

The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.

Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.