- Nobel prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago(pictured) dies at the age of 87.
- In basketball, the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Boston Celticsin four games out of seven to win the NBA Finals.
- Heavy rainfall in the Var, France, kills at least 25 people during the region's worst floods since 1827.
- Soyuz TMA-19, carrying three members of the Expedition 24 crew, launches on the one-hundredth flight to the International Space Station.
- The Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday finds that the British Army was "unjustified" in shooting 27 civilians in 1972.
- In Belgium, the Flemish nationalist New Flemish Alliance gains a plurality in theparliamentary election, with the francophone Socialist Party coming a close second.
- Ethnic clashes in south Kyrgyzstan leave at least 170 people dead.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
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