- Jun 1 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
- Jun 1 Dutch soccer club FC Volendam is established as a result of split up with RKSV; 6-time Eerste Divisie champions
- Jun 1 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
Exodus
Jun 3 Island Records releases "Exodus", the ninth studio album by Bob Marley & the Wailers; featuring the hits, 'Jamming', 'Waiting In Vain', 'Three Little Birds' and 'One Love', it is named the best album of the century by Time Magazine in 1999
- Jun 3 US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
- Jun 4 An estimated 20,000 Scottish football fans invade the Wembley Stadium pitch after Scotland beats England, 2-1; goalposts and advertising hoardings destroyed
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 4 French Open Women's Tennis: Mima Jaušovec of Yugoslavia wins her lone Grand Slam singles title; beats Florența Mihai of Romania 6-2, 6-7, 6-1
- Jun 4 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
- Jun 5 31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Philadelphia 76er, 4 games to 2
- Jun 5 31st Tony Awards: "The Shadow Box" (play) & "Annie" (musical) win
- Jun 5 Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 5 French Open Men's Tennis: Guillermo Vilas of Argentina wins first career Grand Slam event; outclasses American Brian Gottfried 6-0, 6-3, 6-0
Sports History
Jun 5 Los Angeles Dodgers retire future Baseball Hall of Fame manager Walter Alston's #24
Event of Interest
Jun 5 National Council of Women of Kenya led by Wangari Maathai march to Kamukunji Park, Nairobi, and plant seven trees - beginning of the Green Belt Movement
Event of Interest
Jun 6 "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
- Jun 6 Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert at Calabasas Park Country Club & Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to benefit the United Way
- Jun 6 Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
- Jun 6 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
- Jun 7 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
Music History
Jun 7 During the Queen's Jubilee, the Sex Pistols attempt to perform on a boat on the River Thames, but are forced to stop by the police
- Jun 7 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1
Baseball Record
Jun 8 MLB California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game, in 10-inning, 2-1 win over visiting Toronto Blue Jays
- Jun 9 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist
Notable Fireworks
Jun 9 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain celebrated with fireworks
- Jun 10 American golfer Al Geiberger becomes first player in history to post a sub-60 score, 59 (−13) in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event, during the 2nd round Danny Thomas Memphis Classic at Colonial CC in Cordova, Tennessee
- Jun 10 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers
- Jun 10 International Labour Organisation and United Nations meet to discuss apartheid in South Africa and potential actions to prevent further violence and state repression.
Event of Interest
Jun 10 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
- Jun 11 "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC and the Sunshine Band peaks at #1
Belmont Stakes
Jun 11 109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet riding Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6
- Jun 11 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
- Jun 11 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
JFK Presidential Library
Jun 12 Groundbreaking ceremony for John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts; architect I. M. Pei's design would take over 2 years to build
LPGA Championship
Jun 12 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bay Tree Plantation GC: Chako Higuchi of Japan wins her only LPGA major title by 3 from Pat Bradley, Sandra Post & Judy Rankin
- Jun 13 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
- Jun 15 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)
- Jun 15 Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam
- Jun 16 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
- Jun 16 Fianna Fail party wins Irish elections
Event of Interest
Jun 16 Leonid Brezhnev named Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Event of Interest
Jun 16 Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates
Sports History
Jun 16 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
Sports History
Jun 18 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dugout altercation
Music History
Jun 18 Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten by a group of rabble-rousers outside of a London pub
- Jun 18 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
Sports History
Jun 19 MLB Cleveland Indians fire manager Frank Robinson and replace him with Jeff Torborg
- Jun 19 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks
- Jun 19 US Open Golf, Southern Hills CC: Hubert Green shoots 2-under 278 to beat Lou Graham by 1 stroke
PM Menachem Begin
Jun 20 Menachem Begin forms Israeli government
- Jun 20 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
Event of Interest
Jun 21 Bülent Ecevit forms a minority government in Turkey which lasts only 1 month
Event of Interest
Jun 21 Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman enters prison
- Jun 21 Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel's 6th Prime Minister
- Jun 22 Former US Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison for perjury regarding his involvement the Watergate Scandal
- Jun 22 Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released, first Disney film to get a sequel
- Jun 23 Violence erupts in Soweto, South Africa, again and the police make at least 146 arrests
- Jun 24 27th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Ascent" wins the Golden Bear
We Must Believe in Magic
Jun 24 Crystal Gayle releases best-selling album "We Must Believe in Magic" featuring worldwide hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" (1st platinum album by a female country music artist)
Event of Interest
Jun 24 IRS reveals US President Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
- Jun 24 Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
- Jun 25 8th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats Great Britain 13-12
- Jun 25 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time!
- Jun 26 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
Elvis Presley's Last Performance
Jun 26 Elvis Presley appears in concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana; unknowingly the last performance of his career
- Jun 26 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
- Jun 26 Tim Severin aboard the Brendan reaches Newfoundland in attempt to prove sixth-century Irish monks could have voyaged across the Atlantic
- Jun 27 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
- Jun 27 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France
Baseball Record
Jun 27 Willie McCovey smashes 2 HRs in inning for 2nd time (Apr 12, 1973)
- Jun 28 Billy Hunter becomes Rangers' 4th manager in 6 days
- Jun 28 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
- Jun 28 The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, is formally disbanded by the majority faction after members leave the party to join other new political parties
Sports History
Jun 29 Future Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR as his Pittsburgh Pirates rout the St Louis Cardinals, 9-1 at Busch Stadium
- Jun 29 South Africa opposition party, the New Republic Party (NRP), is formed after the integration of the United Party (UP) and Democratic Party (DP)
- Jun 29 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
- Jun 30 US President Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
- Jun 30 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Washington, D.C.)
- Jun 30 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
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