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===June=== * [[June 10]]–[[June 14|14]] – Spontaneous 100,000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in [[Estonian SSR]] eventually give name to the [[Singing Revolution]]. * [[June 10]]–[[June 25|25]] – [[West Germany]] hosts the [[UEFA Euro 1988]] football tournament, which is won by the [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]]. * [[June 21]] – The [[1988 Poole explosion|Poole explosion of 1988]] caused 3,500 people to be evacuated out of the [[Poole Town Centre|town centre]] in the biggest peacetime evacuation the [[United Kingdom]] had seen since the [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=GALLERY: The explosions that rocked Poole - 30 years since the BDH fire |url=https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/16318155.bdh-fire-poole-1988/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Bournemouth Echo |date=June 28, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> * [[June 22]] – [[Walt Disney Studios (division)|Walt Disney Studios]] and [[Steven Spielberg]] release ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''. * [[June 23]] – NASA scientist [[James Hansen]] testifies to the U.S. Senate that human-made global warming has begun, becoming one of the first environmentalists to warn of the problem.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert C. Balling|title=The Heated Debate: Greenhouse Predictions Versus Climate Reality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=atJXAAAAYAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy|isbn=978-0-936488-48-6|page=11|access-date=June 29, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207091218/https://books.google.com/books?id=atJXAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[June 27]] ** The [[Gare de Lyon rail accident]] occurs in Paris, France as a commuter train headed inbound to the terminal crashes into a stationary outbound train, killing 56 and injuring 57.<ref>{{cite book|author=International Union of Public Transport|title=International Congress: Proceedings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9idSAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|page=27|access-date=June 29, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207091846/https://books.google.com/books?id=9idSAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> **[[Villa Tunari massacre]]: [[UMOPAR|Bolivian anti-narcotics police]] kills 9 to 12 and injures over a hundred protesting [[Cocalero|coca-growing peasants]].<ref name="bolivian-reality-29">{{Cite book|title=Coca, cocaine, and the Bolivian reality|editor=Madeline Barbara Léons, Harry Sanabria|publisher=SUNY Press|year=1997|page=29|isbn=978-0-7914-3482-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0uPCUxT_rsAC&q=umopar&pg=PA264|access-date=February 24, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207092024/https://books.google.com/books?id=0uPCUxT_rsAC&q=umopar&pg=PA264#v=onepage&q=umopar&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="gomez-bolivia-greenlee">{{Cite news|url=http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/luis-gomez/2006/02/bolivias-political-moment-part-ii-contradictions-response-viceroy-greenl|title=Bolivia's Political Moment, Part II: Contradictions in Response to Viceroy Greenlee|last=Gomez|first=Luis|date=February 28, 2006|work=Narco News|access-date=5 February 2010|archive-date=March 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316191230/http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/luis-gomez/2006/02/bolivias-political-moment-part-ii-contradictions-response-viceroy-greenl}}</ref><ref name="wsws-massacre">{{Cite news|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/oct2003/boli-o14.shtml|title=Bolivian troops massacre strikers|last=Uco|first=César|author2=Bill Vann|date=14 October 2003|work=World Socialist Web Site|publisher=International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)|access-date=5 February 2010|archive-date=June 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064331/http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/oct2003/boli-o14.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="nsn-weekly-update-2002">{{Cite news |date=October 6, 2002 |title=Bolivia: Cocaleros Sign Truce |work=Weekly News Update on the Americas |publisher=Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York |issue=266 |url=http://www.tulane.edu/~libweb/RESTRICTED/WEEKLY/2002_1006.txt |access-date=5 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701041314/http://www.tulane.edu/~libweb/RESTRICTED/WEEKLY/2002_1006.txt |archive-date=July 1, 2016}}</ref> * [[June 30]] – [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Archbishop]] [[Marcel Lefebvre]] consecrates four [[bishop]]s at [[Écône]], Switzerland, for his [[Society of St. Pius X|apostolate]], along with [[Antônio de Castro Mayer|Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer]], without a [[Pope|papal]] mandate.
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