(Minor Planet Center)Ĭurrent events of June 3, 2017 ( ) (Saturday) Two of Jupiter's moons, S/2003 J 18 and S/2011 J 2 are recovered, and a small 1.5-kilometer outer moon ( S/2016 J 1) is discovered, the first moon discovered around a major planet in 6 years.Leo Varadkar becomes the new party leader of Fine Gael, after winning 51 of 73 votes in the parliamentary party, and is expected to become Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, which would make him the youngest and first openly gay man to be Taoiseach, as well as being the first of half-Indian descent.Disney CEO Bob Iger joins Elon Musk in resigning from President Trump's advisory councils in response to Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S.Former Pennsylvania State University president Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz, and former athletic director Timothy Curley are sentenced to prison for covering up ex-coach Jerry Sandusky's criminal sexual acts, thereby letting him victimize more boys.Five anti-government/anti-Taliban protestors are shot dead by police in Kabul, Afghanistan, after demanding that the government step down in the wake of the May 2017 Kabul attack.ISIL claims responsibility for the attack however, authorities contend it is not terror related.The perpetrator stole gaming chips and fired gun shots before committing suicide. At least 37 people are killed in a deliberately lit fire at Resorts World Manila in the Philippines.Russia lifts more trade sanctions it had placed on Turkey following the 2015 downing of a Russian fighter jet.blacklist four entities, including the Koryo Bank and the Army's Strategic Rocket Force, and 14 people, including the North's head of intelligence operations. As a result of North Korea's repeated missile tests, the United Nations Security Council expands its targeted sanctions against the country, adding to the U.N.North Korea and weapons of mass destruction.Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, Peru and Poland are elected to the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term beginning on January 1, 2018.United Nations Security Council election, 2017.In one instance, a syringe containing vaccine stored without refrigeration was used for all the children over four days.
Fifteen young children die of " severe sepsis/ toxicity" from contaminated vaccine during South Sudan's measles vaccination campaign.Organizers say they hope the festival will resume Saturday. A terrorist threat results in the evacuation of tens of thousands of fans at the first day of the annual Rock am Ring music festival at the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg, Germany.(BBC)Ĭurrent events of June 2, 2017 ( ) (Friday) Such detections are said to be progressively moving this emerging field in astronomy "from novelty to new observational science". The signal beam, detected on 4 January 2017, apparently results from a merger of two black holes of 19 and 31 solar masses. Scientists announce that the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory ( LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, named GW170104.President Donald Trump in protest at the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. Elon Musk quits as an official advisor to U.S.The Appeals Court of the Ninth Circuit has not announced its decision on a similar ruling from Hawaii. The Department of Justice asks the Supreme Court for expedited review of the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court's May 25 ruling that affirmed the Maryland district court decision to prevent implementation of revised Executive Order 13780, and let the travel ban take effect.The secretive Bilderberg Group meet in Chantilly, Virginia, for its annual conference.President Donald Trump confirms that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation. United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel vow to expand their partnership in combating global climate change.Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announces the deaths of ten soldiers in Marawi as a result of a " friendly fire" airstrike.Current events of June 1, 2017 ( ) (Thursday)
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