1st » Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
1st » General Motors General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization called files for Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code e.g Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
5th » After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people 2009 Peruvian political crisis e.g are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
8th » Two American journalists are 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea called found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
12th » A disputed Iranian presidential election, 2009 called presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging 2009 Iranian election protests named protests in Iran and around the world.
18th » The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
19th » Shishou incident or Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
19th » War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
21st » Greenland assumes self-governance named self-rule.
22nd » Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
Famous Deaths for June 2009
1st » Thomas Berry, American priest and theologian (b. 1914)