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===June=== * [[June 6]] – The remains of [[Josef Mengele]], the physician notorious for [[Nazi human experimentation]] on inmates of [[Auschwitz concentration camp]], buried in [[1979]] under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in [[Embu das Artes]], [[Brazil]].<ref>{{cite book|title=In the Matter of Josef Mengele: A Report to the Attorney General of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Ma-JtWs3mkC&pg=PT18|year=1992|publisher=U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division|pages=18}}</ref> *[[June 14]] **[[TWA Flight 847]], carrying 153 passengers from [[Athens]] to [[Rome]], is hijacked by a [[Hezbollah]] fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer [[Robert Stethem]], is killed. Greek police arrest a 65-year-old [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] suspect on [[September 21]], [[2019 in the United States|2019]].<ref>{{citation|website=Fox News|author=Robert Gearty|date=September 21, 2019|access-date=September 21, 2019|title=Greek police arrest suspect in 1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacking|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/greek-police-arrest-suspect-in-1985-twa-flight-847-hijacking}}</ref> ** The [[Schengen Agreement]] is signed between certain member states of the [[European Economic Community]], creating the [[Schengen Area]], a bloc of (at the time) 5 states with no internal border controls.<ref>{{cite book|author=Council of the European Union|title=The Schengen Acquis: Integrated Into the European Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LwelhZ99ujUC|year=2001|publisher=Office for Official Publications of the European Communities|isbn=978-92-824-1776-8|page=6}}</ref> * [[June 15]] – [[Studio Ghibli]], an animation studio, is founded in [[Tokyo]].<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art]]|last=Napier|first=Susan J.|author-link=Susan J. Napier|publisher=[[Yale University Press]]|year=2018|isbn=978-0-300-22685-0|page=91}}</ref> * [[June 20]] – [[1985 Nepal bombings]]: A series of bomb blasts occurs in [[Kathmandu]] and other cities of [[Nepal]].<ref>Bowman, John Stewart. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=cYoHOqC7Yx4C&pg=PA398 Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture]''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. p. 398</ref> * [[June 22]] – British and Irish police foil a "mainland bombing campaign" sponsored by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] which targets luxury vacation resorts. * [[June 23]] – [[Air India Flight 182]], a [[Boeing 747]], is blown up by a terrorist bomb 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, on a Montreal–London–Delhi flight, killing all 329 aboard.<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=23018688|page=46|title=The Air India Report and the Regulation of Charities and Terrorism Financing|last1=Roach|first1=Kent|journal=The University of Toronto Law Journal|year=2011|volume=61|issue=1|doi=10.3138/utlj.61.1.045}}</ref> * [[June 24]] – [[STS-51-G]]: [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]'' completes its mission, best remembered for having [[Sultan bin Salman Al Saud]], the first [[Arab]] and first [[Muslims|Muslim]] in space, as a [[payload specialist]]. * [[June 26]] – The iconic [[U.S. Route 66]] is officially decommissioned.<ref>{{AASHTO minutes |year = 1985S |link = yes |v-link = yes |access-date = April 16, 2014 }}</ref>
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