June 30, 1981 (Tuesday)
- Israeli legislative election, 1981: In the closest election in Israel's history, the Menahem Begin's Likud Party won 48 seats, and the Labor Party led by Shimon Peres had 47, with neither holding a majority in the 120 seat Knesset. Likud eventually negotiated a coalition with the National Religious Party (6), Agudat Israel (4) and TAMI (3) to reach 61 seats.
- Eight former guards of the Maidanek concentration camp were convicted of war crimes by a West German court, bringing to an end a trial that had begun on November 24, 1974.
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Famous quotes containing the word june:
“Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty’s orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.
Ask me no more whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day;
For in pure love heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)