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June 4, 2009 (Thursday)
- United Kingdom Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell announces his resignation and requests that Prime Minister Gordon Brown also resign. (Guardian)
- Two laptop computers that contain personal information on Northern Ireland's 30,000 civil servants are stolen from the Department of Finance and Personnel in Belfast. (RTÉ)
- England conducts local elections in 27 county councils and five unitary authorities. (Telegraph)
- The President of the United States, Barack Obama, addresses the Muslim world in Cairo, Egypt. (BBC) (Washington Post)
- The European Union's parliamentary election commences in the Netherlands and United Kingdom. (Europarl) (RTÉ)
- Irish Minister for Education and Science Batt O'Keeffe apologises for the postponement of a Leaving Certificate Examination. (RTÉ) (Irish Independent)
- Australian Minister for Defense Joel Fitzgibbon resigns. (BBC)
- Linguistic analysis confirms that American astronaut Neil Armstrong did not say the article "a" in the phrase "one small step for a man" when he walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969. (BBC)
- 150,000 people assemble in Hong Kong, China, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (BBC)
- Two hundred thousand people attend the funeral of Dera Sach Khand leader Sant Ramanand Dass in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. (BBC) (Times of India)
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