Events

• June 1 - The popular Bratz, rival to the barbie doll debuts

• June 1 - Royal Family of Nepal massacred.

• June 5-6 - The Harehills riots takes place in Harehills, Leeds, UK after a questionable arrest of an Asian man for posesion of an illegal car tax disc.

• June 5—9 - Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding when Tropical Storm Allison dumps 36 inches (914 mm) of rain on the city. Damage exceeds five billion American dollars.

• June 7 - Tony Blair's Labour Party elected for second term in UK General Election

• June 11 - Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh executed in Indiana

• June 14 - The black beret becomes the standard headgear for all United State Army soldiers.

• June 19 - 23 people killed and 11 wounded by an American missile hitting a soccer field in northern Iraq, county of Tel Afr

• June 20 - Andrea Yates drowns her five children in a bathtub and confesses to her crime.

• June 21 - Total solar eclipse

• June 21 - Actor Carroll O'Connor dies.

• June 29 - Artist and writer Mary Barnes dies.