We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King (1957-1968)
letter from Birmingham city jail, 1963
This Week in History:
June 1st - 5th
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What the BBC ignored:
June 1 - 1962: Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel
June 1 - 1990: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production
June 1 d- 2015: Cruise Ship Eastern Star sinks in the Yangstze river killing over 400
June 2 - 1962: During the 1962 World Cup police intervene in the match between Chile and Italy: one of the most violent games in Football's history
June 2 - 1979: Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit a Communist country
June 3 - 1991: Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people
June 3 - 2017: Islamic terrorists murder 8 people and wound dozens more in the London Bridge Attack
June 4 - 1970: Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
June 4 - 1989: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other
June 5 - 1989: An unidentified man halts a column of tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests
June 5 - 2004: Ronald Reagan dies aged 93
Would you have swapped any of the events above for any of the events chosen by the BBC?
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