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Tuesday, 02 June 2026
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) 
1986 Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81
1988 Iran and Iraq unleash missiles on each other's capitals as so-called "war of the cities" erupts
1989 Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62.
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson.
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev is recorded as becoming president of the Soviet Congress.
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 World Ice Dance Championship in Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (France).
1991 Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40.
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1992 C V Wood Jr, theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71
1994 Flaming oil burns in the Bosporus Strait that divides Istanbul after a tanker and freighter collide, killing 15 crew members
1994 Former West Australian premier Carmen Lawrence enters federal parliament through Fremantle by-election and records a 1.43 per cent swing to Labor
1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard
1994 Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered.
1995 inaugural time 13 people in space
1995 Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73.
1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi.
1996 Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist, dies at 57
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery
1997 Fred Zinnemann (director), dies of heart attack at 89.
1998 In Northern Iran a 6.9 earthquake results in the deaths of 5 people and 50 injured in Golbaf. Two thousand houses destroyed, 10000 people left homeless.
1999 MGM hosts the world's inaugural online DVD event.
2005 Nearly one million people gathered for an opposition rally in Beirut, a month after the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri — the largest rally in Lebanon history
2005 The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence
2013 25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
2017 European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves.
2017 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years
2018 UK announces it will expel 23 Russian diplomats after Russian-made nerve agent used on former spy in UK.
2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
2018 World Happiness Report names Finland as world's happiest country and Burundi the unhappiest.
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