In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

Currently, there are three retired Associate Justices: Sandra Day O ' Connor, who assumed senior status on January 31, 2006, David H. Souter, who assumed senior status on June 29, 2009, and John Paul Stevens, who assumed senior status on June 29, 2010.

He was suspected and denounced, but nothing ensued until the establishment of the Inquisition in Rome in June 1542, at the instigation of Cardinal Giovanni Pietro Carafa, the first Grand Inquisitor, and later Pope Paul IV.

On 13 June 2006, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and President Paul Biya of Cameroon resolved the dispute in talks led by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York City.

The Credo of the People of God is a profession of faith that Pope Paul VI published with the motu proprio Solemni hac liturgia of 30 June 1968.

In June 2006 publishers Skira / Wildenstein released Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, compiled by Joachim Pissarro ( descendant of the painter ) and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts ( descendant of the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel ).

The first EVA repairs of a spacecraft were made by Charles " Pete " Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz on May 26, June 7 and June 19, 1973, on the Skylab 2 mission.

On 23 June 1978, weeks before his death, in an address to the College of Cardinals, Paul VI reaffirmed his Humanae Vitae: " following the confirmations of serious science ", and which sought to affirm the principle of respect for the laws of nature and of " a conscious and ethically responsible paternity ".

His feast day is on June 28 in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, where it was inserted for the first time in 1920 ; in 1960 it was transferred to July 3, leaving June 28 for the Vigil of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, but in 1969 it was returned to June 28, the day of his death.

* Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, principal patrons of the Roman Catholic Church, June 29

On 8 June 1979 Pope John Paul II prayed at her sarcophagus ; and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially affirmed her beatification on 8 August 1986.

When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.

In June 2009, Loach, Paul Laverty ( writer ) and Rebecca O ' Brien ( producer ) pulled their film Looking For Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival, where the Israeli Embassy is a sponsor, after the festival declined the withdraw their sponsorship.

On June 6, federal judge Richard Paul Matsch ruled the documents would not prove McVeigh innocent and ordered the execution to proceed.

Gregory gradually rose to high office in the service of successive popes, and was at the bedside of the dying Pope Paul I as powerful factions began manoeuvring to ensure the election of their own candidate in late June 767.

The Council, established by Pope John Paul II on June 28, 1988, is dedicated to the spiritual welfare of migrant and itinerant people.

Established by Pope John Paul II on June 28, 1988, it is responsible for using the various forms of the media in spreading the Gospel.

The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by Pope John Paul II's motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who broke with him as a result of his consecration of four priests of his Society of St. Pius X as bishops on 30 June 1988, an act the Holy See deemed illicit and schismatic.

Pope Paul VI was elected on 21 June 1963 and immediately announced that the Council would continue.

* Paul T. Cote ( June 1, 1978-June 15, 1984 )

* June 29 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder ( d. 1680 )

Pierre-Paul Riquet ( June 29, 1609 ( some sources say 1604 ) – October 4, 1680 ) was the engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi.

Andréossy continued to work at the canal and serve the family of Riquet until he died in Castelnaudary on 3 June 1688.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

In June 1836, French newspaper La Presse was the first to include paid advertising in its pages, allowing it to lower its price, extend its readership and increase its profitability and the formula was soon copied by all titles.

For this comment, a French court fined her 30, 000 francs in June 2000.

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was again convicted by a French court for " inciting racial hatred " and fined € 5, 000, the fourth such conviction and fine from a French court.

On 30 June 1878, a feast had been arranged in Paris by official decision to honour the French Republic ( the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet ).

In the debate leading up to the adoption of the holiday, Henri Martin, chairman of the French Senate, addressed that chamber on 29 June 1880.

Knowing Marlborough's destination, Tallard and Villeroi met at Landau in Alsace on 13 June to rapidly construct an action plan to save Bavaria, but the rigidity of the French command system was such that any variations from the original plan had to be sanctioned by Versailles.

Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

The definitive metre bar, manufactured from platinum, was presented to the French legislative assembly on 22 June 1799.

Within a week Bonaparte had resupplied his ships, and on 19 June his fleet departed for Alexandria in the direction of Crete, leaving 4, 000 men at Valletta under General Claude-Henri Vaubois to ensure French control of the islands.

On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.

On the evening of 22 June, Nelson's fleet passed the French in the darkness, overtaking the slow invasion convoy without realising how close they were to their target.

Making rapid time on a direct route, Nelson reached Alexandria on 28 June and discovered that the French were not there.

Nelson had missed the French by less than a day, the scouts of the French fleet arriving off Alexandria in the evening of 29 June.

On 25 March 1841, France purchased the island of Maore ( the name of the island was corrupted in French to " Mayotte ") ( ratified 13 June 1843 ), which became a colony.

From 16 June 1940-1942 the colonial administration remained loyal to Vichy France ( from 1942, under Free French ), but 25 September 1942-13 October 1946 they were, like Madagascar, under British occupation.

In June 1907, the French attempted to build a light railway near the port and passing through a graveyard.

Despite these improvements, a second invasion by the former Katangan gendarmerie, known as Shaba II in May – June 1978, was only dispersed with the despatch of the French 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes and a battalion of the Belgian Paracommando Regiment.

In June 1940, during the early stages of World War II, France fell and the colony was then ruled by the pro-Axis Vichy ( French ) government.