Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 94th birthday Saturday with a small, socially distanced ceremony at Windsor Castle. Counterprotesters who said they wanted to protect statues from Black Lives Matter activists clashed with police Saturday in London's Parliament Square. Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields has resigned following the death of a black man at the hands of an Atlanta police officer Friday. AstraZeneca announced Saturday that it has reached an agreement with the Inclusive Vaccines Alliance of Europe to supply as many as 400 million doses of the University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine. Texas set another record for COVID-19 hospitalizations Saturday and Florida marked its biggest increase yet in daily reported infections by the state health department, while New York Gov. Cuomo hailed a decrease. Beijing has shut down its biggest fruit and vegetable market after 50 people tested positive for COVID-19 in a new cluster of cases. Louisville, Ky., Mayor Greg Fischer has signed an ordinance passed unanimously by the city's 26-person Metro Council this week that bans no-knock search warrants. Minnesota lawmakers appeared divided this week on sweeping police reforms while the Minneapolis City Council agreed on replacing the department after the police-involved killing of George Floyd. President Donald Trump gives a graduation speech at the West Point graduation ceremony at Plain Parade Field in New York on June 13, 2020. Actor Fred Willard, rock 'n' roll icon Little Richard, singer-songwriter John Prine, New Orleans jazz legend Ellis Marsalis, soul singer Bill Withers, jazz icon Manu Dibango, country music icon Kenny Rogers, NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, Oscar-winning actor Kirk Douglas, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, and WWE wrestler Rocky Johnson are among the famous people who have died in 2020. William S. Sessions, who directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1987 to 1993, died Friday in San Antonio, Texas. He was 90 years old. Protests broke out in cities across the United States and Europe after a white police officer in Minneapolis was recorded kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man. Floyd died and the officer has been charged in the May 25, 2020 encounter. George Floyd was laid to rest on June 9, 2020 in his hometown, Houston. San Antonio police said they launched a manhunt for a man accused of shooting eight people outside a bar. The theatrical release of the time-travel comedy, "Bill & Ted Face the Music," has been moved up a week to Aug. 14. President Donald Trump praised the 2020 West Point graduates as the "bravest of the brave" during his first commencement address at the military school on Saturday. Hundreds of residents were forced to flee northern parts of Tucson, Ariz., with little notice as the Bighorn Fire raged near the Catalina Foothills. IFC Films said it has acquired the North American distribution rights to a new screen adaptation of Noel Coward's classic comedy, "Blithe Spirit." A federal appeals court has vacated a stay of execution for a Texas death row inmate scheduled to die next week. The fourth season of the British singing competition series, "The Voice Kids," is set to premiere in July, ITV announced. President Donald Trump announced he rescheduled his first rally since March in Tulsa, Okla., after receiving criticism for originally setting the event on Juneteenth. Pop star Lady Gaga's "Chromatica" is the No. 1 album in the United States. "Freedom Riders" and "The Murder of Emmett Till" documentarian Stanley Nelson is working on a non-fiction project called "Attica" for Showtime Documentary Films. SpaceX expanded the company's historic Starlink constellation by launching 58 more satellites from Florida on Saturday morning. Are many of these "asymptomatic" carriers simply in a stage of infection that later moves on to symptomatic COVID-19? No, suggests a small, new study of cruise ship passengers and crew. On June 13, 2009, incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner in a disputed Iranian presidential election. Musician Rivers Cuomo turns 50 and actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson turns 30, among the famous birthdays for June 13. A rocket launched five small satellites into orbit from New Zealand early Saturday morning, including a Boston University experiment to measure solar winds and the Earth's magnetosphere. |
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