The North Korea–United States summit is an upcoming summit between the leaders of North Korea and the United States. It is scheduled to take place in June 2018 at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island in Singapore. This will be the first meeting between an incumbent U.S. President and the leader of North Korea.
In June 2013, Facebook announced on its newsroom that it was introducing clickable hashtags to help users follow trending discussions, or search what others are talking about on a topic. A July 2013 Wall Street Journal article identified the Facebook IPO as the cause of a change in the U.S.' national economic statistics.
Oasis was ordered to pay rock star Gary Glitter £200 000 in royalties for using a portion of his song "Hello, Hello I'm Back Again" on their hit album What’s the Story Morning Glory? The disgraced star has earned an estimated £1m worth of royalties from the Oasis track “Hello” which uses a sample of his lyrics. According to the Sun, the singer will continue to earn a significant amount of money for many years from royalty payments.
The Boeing 777 is a family of long-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliners developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the world's largest twinjet and has a typical seating capacity of 314 to 396 passengers. The 1st flight took place in June 1994, under the command of chief test pilot John E. Cashman.
Arriving in Berlin, Reagan was taken to the Reichstag, where he viewed the wall from a balcony. Reagan then made one of his most famous Cold War speeches at the Brandenburg Gate where he challenged Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Loving v. Virginia is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. In a unanimous decision, the U.S Supreme Court dismissed the Commonwealth of Virginia's argument that a law forbidding both white and black persons from marrying persons of another race and providing identical penalties to white and black violators could not be construed as racially discriminatory.
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. In 1962, he was arrested for conspiring to overthrow the state and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. Mandela served 27 years in prison, but was released in 1990 amid growing domestic and international pressure.
The June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt was one of two escape attempts from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in which neither the escapees, nor their bodies, were found. Late one night in June, inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris broke out of the main prison building via an unused utility corridor. They disappeared without a trace.