June 6
1654 Sweden’s Queen Christina abdicates, shocking Europe, and is succeeded by Charles X.
1809 Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established.
1884 Under Treaty of Hue, emperor of Vietnam recognises French protectorate.
1889 The Great Seattle Fire, Washington, USA. The entire central business district of the city is destroyed.
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler establishes Chrysler Corp.
1944 Allied troops lands in Normandy on D-Day to begin the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany.
1966 Black activist James Meredith is shot and wounded while walking along a Mississippi highway.
1967 Egyptians close Suez Canal during Six-Day Arab-Israeli War.
1972 Coal mine explosion in Rhodesia kills 431 workers.
1973 West Germany completes ratification of treaty to normalise its relations with East Germany.
1982 Israel invades Lebanon with 60,000 troops to drive out the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
1984 Indian troops raid the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab, to flush out terrorists.
1985 Israel withdraws its troops from Lebanon after a three-year occupation.
1993 At least 460 refugees, most of them women and children, are massacred in Liberia.
1994 Brian Lara rewrites the cricket record books with the world’s highest first-class innings of 501 not out.
1994 More than 1,000 people are died in an earthquake and avalanche which devastated a remote Colombian valley.
1994 A Chinese airliner on a domestic flight from the tourist centre of Xian crashes, killing all 160 people on board.
1996 Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz resigns.
1997 Close allies of President Liamine Zeroual sweep to victory in Algeria’s new parliament.
2001 Dubai Police launches e-government services.
2002 Famous Egyptian cinema director Radwan El Kashef dies at the age of 50.
2005 Sharjah Ring Road is inaugurated.
2006 Bahrain names Mona Jasem Al Kawari as judge, the first female to hold such a post in the GCC region
2007 Cyclone Gonu lashes UAE’s east coast.
2008 Bombs rip through two buses in Sri Lanka, killing 23 people.
2012 Kuwaiti Emir refuses to sign a bill passed by parliament stipulating the death penalty for major religious offences.
2013 A new Palestinian government, headed by prime minister Rami Hamdallah, is sworn in Ramallah.
2015 Barcelona wins the Champions League trophy against Juventus at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
HIGHLIGHT
2001
Dubai Police launches e-services
The Dubai Police e-government services were launched by General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Minister of Defence. Shaikh Mohammad will also meet the work force behind the Dubai Police ‘Online College of Total Quality’ proposal and examine its scope for development. He ordered the Prosecution Department to prepare a draft law to legalise e-signatures in Dubai. “The e-government services do not only aim at reducing government cost but making things easier for the public,” said Dubai Police Chief Major General Dahi Khalfan Tamim. Director of Dubai Police’s Total Quality Management Dr Mansoor Alawar, said the Online College of Total Quality would offer academic and training courses at university level in the police and government sector. The college targets UAE local and federal government employees as well as the staff of GCC countries and that of other Arab governments.
