- Jun 1 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
- Jun 1 Two-time defending champion Monterrey, Mexico ruled ineligible to compete in Little League Baseball World Series for using players outside predetermined geographical area
Event of Interest
Jun 2 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", San Francisco
- Jun 3 1st US Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Jun 3 European Cup Final, Stuttgart: Real Madrid beats Stade de Reims, 2-0; 4th consecutive title for Los Blancos
- Jun 3 Singapore adopts constitution
Historic Communication
Jun 3 US President Eisenhower routes Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker a message off the Moon
- Jun 5 Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota
Event of Interest
Jun 5 The first independent government of the State of Singapore is sworn in with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister
Baseball Record
Jun 10 MLB Cleveland Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 4 home runs in 11-8 win over the Orioles, in Baltimore
- Jun 10 Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
US Golf Open
Jun 11 Charlie Sifford becomes the 1st African American to play in a US Golf Open
- Jun 11 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
- Jun 11 Saunders-Roe SR.N1, the first practical hovercraft, performs its first public flight
- Jun 13 "Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV
Belmont Stakes
Jun 13 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
- Jun 14 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Billy Casper wins first of his 2 Open titles, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Bob Rosburg
- Jun 15 Galapagos Islands are made Ecuador's first national park, banning the capture of species [1]
- Jun 16 South African Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to newly established black township Kwa Mashu, on outskirts met with violent resistance
Election of Interest
Jun 17 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland
- Jun 18 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
- Jun 18 Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane
- Jun 18 New York City premiere of the film version of Kathryn Hulme's "The Nun's Story"
- Jun 19 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secetary of Commerce
- Jun 22 "Along Came Jones" by The Coasters peaks at #9
Music History
Jun 22 "Class" the first hit by Chubby Checker peaks at #38 in the US
- Jun 22 American bowler Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
Sports History
Jun 22 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
- Jun 22 Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
- Jun 22 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (fails)
- Jun 23 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people
Klaus Fuchs Released
Jun 23 Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany, where he resumed a scientific career
- Jun 26 9th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Cousins" wins Golden Bear
Boxing Title Fight
Jun 26 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden floors Floyd Patterson 7 times in the 3rd round in NYC to win the world heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 26 Queen Elizabeth II and US President Dwight D. Eisenhower open the St. Lawrence Seaway, allowing oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America
West Side Story
Jun 27 Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Robbins' musical "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 734 performances and 2 Tony Award wins
- Jun 27 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the MLB All-Star Game
US Women's Golf Open
Jun 27 US Open Women's Golf, Churchill Valley CC: Mickey Wright successfully defends her Open title by 2 strokes from Louise Suggs
- Jun 28 Meldrim trestle disaster; freight train derails over Ogeechee River in Georgia causing IPG tanks to explode killing 23
- Jun 28 Philadelphia Phillies' Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice, in a 6-0 loss to Giants at Seals Stadium, San Francisco, California
Catholic Encyclical
Jun 29 Pope John XXIII publishes his 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
- Jun 30 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls are in play at same time
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