Music History
Jun 1 "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
Dare To Be Stupid
Jun 1 Weird Al Yankovic releases his "Dare To Be Stupid" album
Cricket History
Jun 1 West Indian cricket batsman Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 in a tour match against Warwickshire at Taunton; 42 fours and 8 sixes of 258 balls
- Jun 2 39th Tony Awards: "Biloxi Blues" (play) and "Big River" (musical) win
- Jun 2 Andreas Papandreou's PASOK-party wins election in Greece
LPGA Championship
Jun 2 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Nancy Lopez wins by 8 shots from fellow American Alice Miller
- Jun 2 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
Larry King Live
Jun 3 "Larry King Live" debuts on CNN, airing each weeknight through December, 2010
- Jun 3 Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
- Jun 3 Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
- Jun 4 STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
- Jun 4 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
- Jun 5 Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby
- Jun 6 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
- Jun 6 Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed
- Jun 6 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
- Jun 6 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
- Jun 8 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 8 French Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 for her 17th Grand Slam title and 6th French singles crown
- Jun 9 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 9 French Open Men's Tennis: Sweden's Mats Wilander wins 4th career Grand Slam title; beats Czech star Ivan Lendl 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
NBA Finals
Jun 9 NBA Championship, Boston Garden: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 111-100 for a 4 games to 2 series victory; Finals MVP: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Jun 9 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
Music City News Awards
Jun 10 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, Barbara Mandrell win
- Jun 10 Claus von Bülow acquitted during second trial on charges he tried to murder his wife
- Jun 10 Coca-Cola announces they're bringing back their 99-year-old formula
- Jun 11 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
- Jun 11 Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRs in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
- Jun 11 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
Prizzi's Honor
Jun 13 "Prizzi's Honor", starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica Huston, is released
- Jun 14 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
Sports History
Jun 14 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles
- Jun 14 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
- Jun 15 "Pryor's Place" children's show last airs on CBS-TV
- Jun 15 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
Thomas KOs Weaver
Jun 15 Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 15 Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by man later judged insane; he throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with his knife
- Jun 15 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
- Jun 16 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: 1978 champion Andy North wins by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Dave Barr, T C Chen and Denis Watson
- Jun 16 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
- Jun 17 18th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Discovery 5 launches
Sports History
Jun 19 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
- Jun 21 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
Glastonbury Festival
Jun 21 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Echo & the Bunnyman, Joe Cocker, and The Boomtown Rats headline; other performers include: The Style Council, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Nick Lowe, Third World, Gregory Isaacs, Hugh Masekela, Clannad, Midnight Oil, Aswad, and The Pogues
- Jun 22 "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
Music History
Jun 22 "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12
- Jun 23 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
Sports History
Jun 23 Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
Senior Players Championship
Jun 23 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, Canterbury GC: Defending champion Arnold Palmer wins his final major by 11 shots from Miller Barber, Lee Elder, Gene Littler & Charles Owens
- Jun 24 18th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Discovery 5 returns to Earth
- Jun 24 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-F
- Jun 25 Fireworks factory near Hallett, Oklahoma, explodes killing 21
- Jun 25 Thurman v City of Torrington decides in favor of Tracey Thurman, 1st woman to sue a police department for violating her civil rights (not protecting against abusive husband)
Event of Interest
Jun 26 Portugal's Socialist Prime Minister Mário Soares resigns amid predictions that Parliament would be dissolved and elections called
- Jun 27 First hotel strike in New York City
- Jun 27 Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
- Jun 28 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx
- Jun 29 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-11
- Jun 29 STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
- Jun 30 39 remaining hostages from hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
- Jun 30 LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
- Jun 30 Revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The King & I" closes at Broadway Theater, NYC, after 191 performances
- Jun 30 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Edgewood Tahore GC: Miller Barber wins by 4 strokes from Roberto De Vincenzo for back-to-back Senior Open titles
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