It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

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.

* June 8, 2008: The Akihabara massacre takes place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūō street.

As of June 2008, 823, 502 companies were so registered ( of which 445, 865 were ' active ').

The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of € 15, 000, the largest of her fines to date.

* The meaning of the butterfly: Why pop culture loves the ' butterfly effect ,' and gets it totally wrong, Peter Dizikes, Boston Globe, June 8, 2008

On 7 September 2008 he took part in Soccer Aid 2008, and on 6 June 2010 in Soccer Aid 2010, playing for the Rest of the World vs a team of England celebrities and ex pros.

The fabrication methods and device characteristics were described at the 50th Electronic Materials Conference in Santa Barbara on June 25, 2008.

Chaosium released a new version of BRP on June 24, 2008 as single comprehensive book.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008 of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida.

His funeral, a four-hour " homegoing " service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career.

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

* Mobile Edition of the CIA World Factbook, last updated 10 June 2008

There is a Fly TACV website, though as June 2008 no bookings can be made.

), Challenges of Security Sector Governance in West Africa, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces / Lit Verlag, June 2008, pp 75 – 92

In an interview with the magazine N ' Digo published in late June 2008, he spoke of today's mainstream urban music seemingly relishing the addictive euphoria of materialism and sexism, perhaps being the primary cause of many people harboring resentment towards the genre and its future.

Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.

In the April – June, 2008, issue of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, computer scientists describe a potential new way to combat internet worms.

It was recovered in June 2008.

Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

On 18 June 1604 Oxford granted the custody of the Forest of Essex to his son-in-law, Lord Norris, and his cousin, Sir Francis Vere.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

He then went on to serve as Fourth Sea Lord at the Admiralty from June 1950 to April 1952 and then returned to the Mediterranean to serve as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from June 1952.

In 1947, Muslim majority districts of Bengal favored the Partition of India after approving the June 3rd Plan presented by the Viceroy of India Lord Earl Mounbatten, and merged with the new province of East Bengal of the Dominion of Pakistan.

He was a leading member of the Duke of York's administration, was created a Lord of the Articles in June and in November 1681 Lord President of the Privy Council.

Lord Aberdeen served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between January and June 1828 and subsequently as Foreign Secretary until 1830 under the Duke of Wellington. He resigned with Wellington over the Reform Bill of 1832.

In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.

The Official Journal of the League of Nations, dated June 1922, contained a statement by Lord Balfour ( UK ) in which he explained that the League's authority was strictly limited.

Lord Rayleigh was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 12 June 1873, and served as president of the Royal Society from 1905 to 1908.

It starred Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Steerpike, Neve McIntosh as Fuchsia, June Brown as Nannie Slagg, Ian Richardson as Lord Groan, Christopher Lee as Flay, Richard Griffiths as Swelter, Warren Mitchell as Barquentine, Celia Imrie as Countess Gertrude, Lynsey Baxter and Zoë Wanamaker as the twins, Cora and Clarice, and John Sessions as Dr Prunesquallor.

The term radian first appeared in print on 5 June 1873, in examination questions set by James Thomson ( brother of Lord Kelvin ) at Queen's College, Belfast.

David Edward Sutch ( 10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999 ), also known as " Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow ", or simply " Screaming Lord Sutch ", was a musician from the United Kingdom.

* June 16 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English politician ( b. 1940 )

* June 9 – Jon Lord, organist of Deep Purple, the " Lord of the Hammond organ "

* June 29 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord

* June 21 – The Isle of Man is brought under British control, the Isle of Man Purchase Act ( coming into force 10 May ) confirming HM Treasury's purchase of the feudal rights of the Dukes of Atholl as Lord of Mann over the island and revesting them into the British Crown.

* June 15 – Pope Leo X issues the bull Exsurge Domine ( Arise O Lord ), threatening Martin Luther with excommunication if he does not recant his position on indulgences and other Catholic doctrines.

* June 30 – Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( d. 1873 )