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June 6th, 2008	Event	The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 394 points after the price of a barrel of oil rose over $10 to $139 and unemployment rose .5% to 5.5%.
June 6th, 2005	Event	The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
June 6th, 2004	Event	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.
June 6th, 2002	Event	Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
June 6th, 1999	Event	In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937.
June 6th, 1999	Event	At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.
June 6th, 1993	Event	Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
June 6th, 1990	Event	U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by 2 Live Crew violates Florida s obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the dirty thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind."
June 6th, 1985	Event	The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz s "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February, 1979.
June 6th, 1984	Event	The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualties are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire. A total death count adds up to almost 6,000.

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