On this day — June 19

China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.

The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdrew after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race.

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.

in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.

killing eight people.

dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.