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• In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanović win the singles titles in the 2008 French Open.
• The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time.
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• June 04: Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrashekar Rao resigned as party chief owning moral responsibility for the bypoll debacle. (Times of India)
• June 03: India's corporate sector has lost some $1.25 billion since May 23 due to the ongoing Gujjar stir, apart from cancellations of at least 75 trains by the railways, as per estimates by official agencies and industry chambers. (Economic Times)
• May 30: The Union ministry of human resources development has given the nod to another three IITs, taking the count to six, to begin functioning from 2008-09. (Howrah News Service)
• May 29: BS Yeddyurappa of the Bharatiya Janata Party and his group of ministers will be sworn in on Friday afternoon in Bangalore. (The Statesman)
• May 28: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the class X results, which registered a pass percentage of 87.08 per cent. (NDTV.com)
• May 28: By-elections in Andhra Pradesh are being held for four Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly seats. (andhracafe.com)

June 11: Kamehameha Day in Hawaii

• 1770 – English explorer James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef (pictured).
• 1892 – The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, one of the world's earliest film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
• 1937 – Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and several senior officers of the Red Army were convicted in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization, a secret trial during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngô Đình Diệm administration.
• 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor of Alabama George Wallace stepped aside after a stand in the schoolhouse door.

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