- Jun 1 2,400 people attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
Music Concert
Jun 1 George Harrison is impressed by sitarist Ravi Shankar's concert in London
- Jun 1 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic for the second time
- Jun 1 Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
- Jun 2 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
- Jun 3 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
- Jun 3 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
- Jun 4 -10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
- Jun 4 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
- Jun 4 Novelty single "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
- Jun 5 Cincinnati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 5 French Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Tony Roche wins his first and only Grand Slam title; beats István Gulyás of Hungary 6-1, 6-4, 7-5
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 5 French Championships Women's Tennis: Ann Haydon-Jones of England beats American Nancy Richey 6-3, 6-1 for her 2nd French singles crown
James Meredith Wounded
Jun 6 Civil rights activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
- Jun 6 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
- Jun 6 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
Sports History
Jun 7 MLB Draft: New York Mets pass on Reggie Jackson to select Antelope Valley HS catcher Steve Chilcott #1
- Jun 8 NFL & AFL announce merger plans, one league with two divisions (NFC and AFC) starting in 1970
- Jun 8 Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
Baseball Record
Jun 9 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
- Jun 10 Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Washington Senator, 2-0
Music Concert
Jun 10 Janis Joplin plays her 1st live gig with Big Brother & The Holding Company, at Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California
- Jun 10 Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
- Jun 10 The Beatles release single "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" in UK; "Rain" featured experimental studio tricks of slowed down bass and drums tracks, and backwards vocals in the fade out
- Jun 11 "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
- Jun 11 "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
- Jun 11 "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 performances
#1 in the Charts
Jun 11 "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1 in the US
- Jun 11 "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 performances
- Jun 11 "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hits #1 in UK
- Jun 11 French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
TV Show Appearance
Jun 12 Dave Clark Five sets record as they appear for 12th time on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
- Jun 13 US Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights
- Jun 14 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
- Jun 14 Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
- Jun 15 Mexican record temperature of 52.5 °C (126.5 °F) in the shade is recorded in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora
- Jun 16 20th Tony Awards: "Marat/Sade" (play) & "Man of La Mancha" (musical) win
Music History
Jun 16 Rowan & Martin host "The Dean Martin Show" Summer Series, on NBC-TV
- Jun 17 Peter Green, British blues-rock guitartist joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers
Sheila Scott Flies Round the World
Jun 20 British pilot Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman, returning to London's Heathrow airport in her Piper Comanche after a 34 day journet
US Golf Open
Jun 20 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic CC: Billy Casper erases a 7-stroke deficit on the final 9 holes to tie Arnold Palmer; wins Monday 18-hole playoff by 4 strokes
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Jun 21 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", film directorial debut of Mike Nichols, based on Edward Albee's 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress, 1967)
Event of Interest
Jun 21 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
- Jun 22 South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government
- Jun 24 16th Berlin International Film Festival: "Cul-de-Sac" wins the Golden Bear
- Jun 24 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
Music Premiere
Jun 25 Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony premieres in Leningrad, Russia
- Jun 25 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
- Jun 25 The Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
- Jun 26 John Morris and Gerald Freedman's musical "A Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theatre, NYC, after 41 performances
- Jun 26 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
- Jun 27 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
- Jun 28 Ernie Terrell beats Doug Jones by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in Houston to retain his WBA heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 29 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
- Jun 29 US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time in the Vietnam War
- Jun 30 England spin bowler Derek Underwood goes wicketless in his Test cricket debut v West Indies at Nottingham; captures 297 wickets in illustrious 86 Test career
- Jun 30 Leopoldville, Congo, is renamed Kinshasa
- Jun 30 Richard Helms promoted from deputy director to 8th director of US Central Intelligence Agency
- Jun 30 Some attendees at the National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington D.C. lay groundwork to establish a group to speak for women's rights - the National Organization of Women (NOW)
- Jun 30 The Beatles land in Tokyo, Japan for what becomes their final concert tour there - they perform 5 shows at the Budokan Hall over 3 days, and collaborate on a painting while there
- Jun 30 Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
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