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• ... that the flowers of the beach gardenia (pictured) are used to scent coconut oil in the Cook Islands, while the heated leaves are used for headaches in northern Australia?
• ... that the Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother Li Chu, the later Emperor Daizong?
• ... that the Chantecler, the only breed of chicken native to Canada, was developed by a Trappist monk?
• ...that the 2001 documentary film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy retold the story of the Scottsboro Boys, one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in U.S. history?

• ... that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother Edward founded the Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought out Thomas Hardy's first novels?

• ... that when Yves Saint Laurent launched a perfume in 1977 named Opium, it led to accusations that he was condoning drug use?
  

• The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu (pictured) as an indigenous people for the first time.
• Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles.
• The Detroit Red Wings win ice hockey's Stanley Cup after defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game Six of the Finals.
• Zimbabwean police briefly detain opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai during campaigning in the second round of the Zimbabwe presidential election.
• In the U.S. Presidential campaign, Senator Barack Obama obtains a predicted majority of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, the first African-American ever to do so.
• The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes a declaration allowing foreign naval vessels to enter Somali territorial waters to deal with pirates.
• A car bomb explodes outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least five.

June 7:

• 1099 – Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city against the Fatimids.
• 1494 – Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the newly discovered lands of the Americas and Africa between the two countries.
• 1776 – Virginia statesman Richard Henry Lee presented the Lee Resolution to the Second Continental Congress, declaring the Thirteen Colonies to be independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1948 – Rather than sign the Ninth-of-May Constitution making his nation a Communist state, Edvard Beneš (pictured) chose to resign as President of Czechoslovakia.
• 1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor, assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program.

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