Spain's parliament approved by one vote a 15 billion euro austerity package to rein in the budget deficit.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
May 27, 1993
A suspected Mafia car bomb killed five people and badly damaged the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
May 27, 1963
Jomo Kenyatta was elected first prime minister of a self-governing Kenya, becoming state president on independence from Britain the following year.
Sunday, 2 June 2013
June 2, 2003
UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said thee was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
June 2, 1858
A comet was detected by and named after Dr Donati of Florence; 16 days later it nearly collided with venus.
June 2, 1953
Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon, as well as Head of the Commonwealth of Nations.
June 3, 1992
June 3, 1973
A Soviet Tupolev 144 supersonic airliner crashed at the Paris Air Show, killing 15 people.
June 3, 1769
Captain Cook, a year into his circumnavigation of the world, observed the transit of Venus across the Sun, the main purpose of his voyage.
June 3, 2001
Alejandro Toledo was elected president of Peru, the first indigenous South American president to be democratically elected in 500 years.
Saturday, 1 June 2013
May 30, 1993
Two thousand people marched in Germany to protest at a neo-Nazi arson that killed five Turks.
May 30, 1972
Three Japanese Red Army terrorists gunned down 26 people at Tel Aviv's International Airport.
May 30, 1942
1,047 RAF bombers set off to target Cologne in the RAF's first 1,000-bomber raid of World War Two
May 30, 1593
English playwright Christopher Marlowe, a major influence on Shakespeare, died in a tavern fight.
May 30, 1431
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake of heresy in Rouen, France. She was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint almost 500 years later, in 1920.
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
MAy 26, 2011
Ratko Maldic, ex-Bosnian Serb general beleived responsible for the Srebrenica massacre, was arrested.
May 26, 2003
A plane brining 62 Spanish peacekeepers home from Afghanistan crashed in Turkey, killing all 75.
May 26, 1979
Israel formally returned the Sinai to Egypt as part of the peace deal formulated by Anwar Sadat.
May 28, 1923
The first Le Mans 24-hour race was run. It is now the world's most famous sports car endurance race.
May 26, 2008
China relaxed its one-child policy following the Sichuan earthquake. Over 5,000 children died when schools collapsed due to shoddy construction.
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
May 20, 2012
Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, died from cancer.
May 20, 2008
Myanmar's military junta finally allowed entry to foreign aid workers to assist the victims of Cyclone Nargis.
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