Schumacher wins Canadian Grand Prix
1997 - A crash in which Olivier Panis was injured cut short the Canadian Grand Prix, handing a victory to two-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher. The German driver took the lead moments before Panis crashed when David Coulthard’s strategy, that only moments before appeared to all but assure him of a victory, failed because of a stalled engine. Even as Coulthard’s crew tried desperately to restart his Mercedes-McLaren, Panis slid through a turn, tagged a concrete barrier with the nose of his Prost-Mugen Honda and slammed hard into a tyre wall. The Frenchman was carried by safety workers to the side of the track, where medical personnel worked over him. A red flag ended the event after the completion of 54 of a scheduled 69 laps.
June 15
1785 - Two French balloonists die in world’s first fatal aviation crash.
1862 - Turkish forces bombard Belgrade after Serb uprising there.
1919 - John William Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown complete the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic, flying from Newfoundland to Ireland.
1934 - The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is established in the US.
1954 - The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) is founded in Basel, Switzerland.
1970 - Martial law is declared in Turkey when serious rioting breaks out.
1977 - Spaniards go to the polls in the first democratic elections there since 1936.
1978 - King Hussain of Jordan marries 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who becomes Queen Noor.
1980 - Dubai Electricity Company’s steam power and desalination plant opens at Jebel Ali.
1992 - Japanese Parliament approves the use of troops overseas for the first time since Second World War.
1998 - Nigeria’s new military leadership releases nine of the country’s most prominent political prisoners, including General Olusegun Obasanjo.
2005 - Australian hostage Douglas Wood is freed in Baghdad after six weeks in captivity.
2007 - Ethiopia accepts a UN commission’s ruling to turn over a disputed town to Eritrea.
2009 - Saudi Arabia and the UAE reach agreement on ending truck crisis at the border.
2013 - Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani is declared Iran’s new president.
2016 - FNC passes draft law banning ownership of exotic animals.
