June 2001

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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.