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* May 21 - [[Suharto]] resigns as President of Indonesia. | * May 21 - [[Suharto]] resigns as President of Indonesia. | ||
* June 7 - Beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War. | * June 7 - Beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War. | ||
* June 7 - African-American man James Byrd, Jr. is abducted by [[White supremacy|white supremacists]] [[John William King]], [[Lawrence Russell Brewer]], and [[Shawn Allen Berry]] in Jasper, Texas. The three men [[torture]] Byrd before chaining him to the back of their pickup truck and dragging him three miles, during which Byrd remained alive until his head and arm were severed when his body struck a culvert. | |||
* June 22 - The [[Khmer Rouge]]'s Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia (PGNUNSC) collapses. | * June 22 - The [[Khmer Rouge]]'s Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia (PGNUNSC) collapses. | ||
* June 30 - [[Joseph Estrada]] is elected as President of the Philippines | * June 30 - [[Joseph Estrada]] is elected as President of the Philippines | ||