Music Premiere
Jun 1 Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
- Jun 1 Iraq nationalizes Iraq Petroleum Company's (IPC) concession owned by British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, Mobil and Standard Oil of New Jersey
- Jun 1 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
Event of Interest
Jun 1 West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 3 French Open Women's Tennis: American icon Billie Jean King wins her only French singles title; beats Evonne Goolagong of Australia 6-3, 6-3
- Jun 4 Angela Davis, African American activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
- Jun 4 French Open Men's Tennis: Andrés Gimeno of Spain wins his only major singles title; beats Frenchman Patrick Proisy 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1
- Jun 5 "If You Had Wings" ride opens at Walt Disney World
- Jun 5 UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
- Jun 6 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)
- Jun 6 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
- Jun 6 US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
- Jun 7 Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America
- Jun 7 Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease" starring Barry Bostwick, Carole Demas, and Adrienne Barbeau, opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 3,388 performances
- Jun 7 Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th
Event of Interest
Jun 7 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
Tony Greig Debuts
Jun 8 Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, v Australia at Old Trafford (57/62)
- Jun 9 14" of rain in 6 hrs bursts dam in Rapid City, South Dakota; 237 people drown
Music History
Jun 9 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia Records
- Jun 9 In a show of support for Iraq, OPEC moves to prevent companies whose interests were nationalized in Iraq from increasing production elsewhere
- Jun 10 "Too Young" single released by Donny Osmond
- Jun 10 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28
Music Recording
Jun 10 Elvis Presley records a live album at NYC's Madison Square Garden
Sports History
Jun 10 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges & moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649)
#1 in the Charts
Jun 10 Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of "The Candy Man" by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse (from the film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory") goes to #1 on the charts - his biggest single
- Jun 11 31°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in June
- Jun 11 Gun battle between Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries break out in the Oldpark area of Belfast
- Jun 11 KPAT-AM in Berkeley, California returns to original call letters KRE, marking 50 years since first on-air broadcxast
- Jun 11 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Pleasant Valley CC: Kathy Ahern wins her only major title, by 6 strokes ahead of runner-up Jane Blalock
Sometime in NYC
Jun 12 Apple Records releases John Lennon and Yoko Ono's political album "Sometime in NYC" in US; includes studio recordings of songs "Woman is the Nigger of the World", "Attica State" and "Luck of the Irish"; and some live tracks from 1971 concert with Frank Zappa
- Jun 13 The Irish Republican Army invites British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Willie Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law"
- Jun 14 Members of the NI Social Democratic and Labour Party hold a meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army in Derry; the IRA representatives outline their conditions for talks with the British Government
- Jun 14 Tropical storm (later hurricane) Agnes forms over Yucatán Peninsula
- Jun 15 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
- Jun 15 The Social Democratic and Labour Party meet Secretary of State for Northern Ireland W Whitelaw, to present the IRA's conditions for a meeting
- Jun 15 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Jun 16 RCA releases David Bowie's fifth studio album "The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"; it is considered his artistic breakthrough
- Jun 16 The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador
- Jun 17 "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" single by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
- Jun 17 9 firefighters are killed in the Hotel Vendome fire in Boston
Event of Interest
Jun 17 Chilean President Salvador Allende forms a new socialist government
- Jun 17 Five men arrested after trying to bug Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Complex, Washington
- Jun 18 3 members of the British Army are killed by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in a derelict house near Lurgan, County Down
- Jun 18 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
UEFA European Championship Final
Jun 18 UEFA European Championship Final, Heysel Stadium, Brussels, Belgium: Gerd Müller scores a brace as West Germany beats Soviet Union, 3-0
US Golf Open
Jun 18 US Open Men's Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Jack Nicklaus captures his 3rd Open title, 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton of Australia
Sports History
Jun 18 US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws [1]
- Jun 19 -29] Tropical storm Agnes upgraded to a hurricane, makes landfall in Panama City (would kill 128)
- Jun 19 A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast
- Jun 19 Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers face flight delays and cancellations after pilots threaten to strike over hijack fears
- Jun 19 Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw concedes 'special category' status, or 'political status' for paramilitary prisoners in Northern Ireland
- Jun 20 Secret Meeting Between IRA and British Officials held
- Jun 22 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances
- Jun 22 The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces
- Jun 23 22nd Berlin International Film Festival: "The Canterbury Tales" wins the Golden Bear
- Jun 23 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound
- Jun 23 Bernice Gera becomes first female umpire in US pro baseball, Geneva Senators and Auburn Twins in Geneva, New York
- Jun 23 Hurricane Agnes becomes America's costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage
Agreement of Interest
Jun 23 US President Nixon & his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
- Jun 23 US President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
- Jun 24 Single "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
- Jun 24 South African runner Danie Malan sets a new 1,000m world record 2:16.0 in Munich, Germany
- Jun 24 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3 British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry
- Jun 24 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
- Jun 24 Yvonne Brathwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair of a Democratic convention
- Jun 26 Australian swing bowler Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut in 2nd Test vs England at Lord's
- Jun 26 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day and at midnight begins a "bi-lateral truce"
Film & TV History
Jun 27 Legendary video game and home computer Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California
- Jun 29 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that death penalty is cruel & unusual
- Jun 29 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
- Jun 30 One leap second is added to the UTC time system; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
- Jun 30 Ulster Defence Association (UDA) begin to organise its own 'no-go' areas (this is a response to the continuation of Republican 'no-go' areas and fears about concessions to the IRA)
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