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Today in History over RRI World Service, Voice of Indonesia. We start from an event on June 2, 1942 when Nazi controlled Libya.  

On June 2, 1942, Marshal Erwin Rommel, a commander of specialist of strategy of mass anti-attack operation from Germany began his operation in the North of Africa. Earlier, British soldiers have attacked Libya territory and succeeded to take it away from Nazi Germany. But, through the operation, German soldiers were not only able to take over Libya, they were also able to conquer other regions surrounding Libya such as Al-‘Ilmain and city of Iskandariah port in Egypt. The victory made allied forces be worried, which was predicted to be able to occupy Suez Canal. Thus, Britain mobilized all of its power to the region and finally  in November, British soldiers succeeded again to hit back German soldiers.

The next event is that in 1967, protest in West Berlin confront Shah Iran’s visit changed to be riot, Benno Ohnesorg was killed by police.

Benno Ohnesorg is a German student who was killed by police on June 2, 1967 in demonstration in Berlin to confront the visit of Shah Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Germany. His death caused radicalism group of June 2 movement. A monument to remember the death of  Ohnesorg was established in Berlin, and at his hometown in  Hannover, a bridge which crosses Ihme river, called ‘Benno Ohnesorg’  as honor him.

And the last event is that in 1986, Slamet Muljana passed away.

Prof. Dr. Raden Benedictus Slamet Muljana, who passed away in Jakarta on June 2, 1986, is an Indonesian philologist and historian. He obtained his title from University of Louvain, Belgium in 1954, and has become professor at University of Indonesia since 1958.

Slamet Muljana has taught at Gadjah Mada University, Information Academy and Journalistic Academy. Besides, he also taught overseas, among others Wolfgang Goethe Universitat (Frankfurt, Germany), State University of New York (Albany, the United States of America), and Nanyang University of Singapore. In addition, Slamet Muljana officiated as director of institute for language and culture in Singapore, also became member of board of curators at Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.