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===June=== * [[June 2]] β In a [[1992 Danish Maastricht Treaty referendum|national referendum]] Denmark rejects the [[Maastricht Treaty]] by a narrow margin. * [[June 3]]β[[June 14|14]] β The [[Earth Summit]] is held in [[Rio de Janeiro]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992|title=United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992|first=United|last=Nations|publisher=United Nations}}</ref> * [[June 8]] β The first [[World Oceans Day]] is celebrated, coinciding with the [[Earth Summit]] held in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]]. *[[June 10]]β[[June 26|26]] β [[Sweden]] hosts the [[UEFA Euro 1992]] football tournament, which is won by [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]]. *[[June 16]] β A "Joint Understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] and Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] (this is later codified in [[START II]]).<ref>{{cite book | last = Young | first = John | title = The Longman companion to America, Russia and the Cold War, 1941β1998 | publisher = Taylor and Francis | location = Hoboken | year = 2014 | isbn = 9781317878872 | page=146}}</ref> *[[June 17]] ** Two German relief workers held since 1989, Thomas Kemptner and Heinrich Struebig, are handed over to the German authorities after their release; they are the last Western hostages in Lebanon.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Beirut Review: A Journal on Lebanon and the Middle East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_UMAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Lebanese Center for Policy Studies|pages=231β232}}</ref> ** Violence breaks out between the [[African National Congress]] and the [[Inkatha Freedom Party]] in [[Boipatong, Gauteng|Boipatong]], South Africa, leaving 46 dead. *[[June 18]] β [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] votes for the [[Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland]] to accept the [[Maastricht Treaty]] with a popular vote of over 69%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/migrated-files/en/Publications/LocalGovernment/Voting/referendum_results_1937-2015.pdf|work=[[Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government]]|title=Referendum Results 1937β2015|page=44|date=23 August 2016|access-date=9 June 2018}}</ref> *[[June 20]] ** [[Estonia]] adopts the [[Estonian kroon|kroon]] as currency, becoming the first former Soviet Republic to replace the [[Soviet rouble]]. ** In [[Paraguay]] the National Constituent Assembly approves the new [[Constitution of Paraguay]]. *[[June 21]] β [[Nelson Mandela]] announces that the [[African National Congress]] will halt negotiations with the government of South Africa following the [[Boipatong massacre]] of June 17. *[[June 23]] β The [[1992 Israeli legislative election|Israeli legislative election]] is won by the [[Israeli Labor Party]] under the leadership of [[Yitzhak Rabin]], ousting a [[Likud]] government. *[[June 25]] β The [[Black Sea Economic Cooperation]] (BSEC) is founded. *[[June 26]] β [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]] beats [[Germany national football team|Germany]] 2β0 in [[UEFA Euro 1992 Final|the final]] to win the [[1992 UEFA European Football Championship]] at [[Ullevi]] Stadium in [[Gothenburg]], Sweden. *[[June 28]] β [[Estonia]] holds a referendum on its [[Constitution of Estonia|constitution]], which will come into effect on July 3.
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