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• ... that the worst terrorist attack against tourists in Egypt was in November 1997, when gunmen killed 57 tourists and 4 Egyptians (location pictured)?
• ... that the Thomas T. Gaff House is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to the United States?
• ... that Dulcie Holland's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, described as "one of the greatest treasures of Australian music", waited 47 years for its first public performance?
• ... that Ringeriksbanen railway would reduce rail travel from Oslo to Bergen, Norway by 60 km (37 mi)?
• ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's SF novel To the Stars was nominated for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award?
• ... that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests?
• ... that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon, on New Year's Eve for 64 straight years?
  

• IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner (pictured).
• Following a coal mine collapse in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, 24 miners are rescued with 12 still missing and one reported death.
• Seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
• The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.
• 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.

June 10: Portugal Day (Portugal's National Day and the Deathday of Luís de Camões (pictured))

• 1190 – The Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
• 1719 – Jacobite risings: British forces defeated an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards at the Battle of Glen Shiel in the Scottish Highlands.
• 1829 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the first Boat Race held on the Thames in London.
• 1838 – More than twenty-five Australian Aborigines were massacred near Inverell, New South Wales.
• 1935 – American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.

More events: June 9 – June 10 – June 11