Golf Tournament
Jun 3 Tiger Woods claims his 73rd PGA tour victory with a 2 stroke win over Andrés Romero & Rory Sabbatini in the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village GC; equals Jack Nicklaus's record
- Jun 4 Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
- Jun 4 Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983
- Jun 4 MLB Draft: Puerto Rico Academy & HS shortstop Carlos Correa first pick by Houston Astros
- Jun 4 US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
- Jun 4 Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan
- Jun 5 American gubernatorial recall election is held in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker wins and becomes the first governor to survive a recall election.
CMT Music Awards
Jun 6 11th CMT Video Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, and Luke Bryan win
- Jun 6 The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
- Jun 6 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs - last transit of 21st century
Event of Interest
Jun 7 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays first performed found under a pub in London
- Jun 7 A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
- Jun 7 Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout speculation
- Jun 8 A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people
- Jun 9 144th Belmont: John Velazquez aboard Union Rags wins in 2:30.42
- Jun 9 Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
- Jun 9 It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
- Jun 10 66th Tony Awards: "Once" (musical) & "Clybourne Park" (play) win
- Jun 10 A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 10 French Open Women's Tennis: Maria Sharapova wins her first French title; beats Sara Errani of Italy 6-3, 6-2
LPGA Championship
Jun 10 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Locust Hill CC: Shanshan Feng of China wins by 2 strokes ahead of Eun-Hee Ji, Stacy Lewis, Mika Miyazato and Suzann Pettersen
Sports History
Jun 10 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Shoal Creek G&CC: Defending champion Tom Lehman wins by 2 strokes from Bernhard Langer of Germany and Taiwan's Lu Chien-soon
- Jun 11 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
- Jun 11 Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 11 French Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal beats Novak Đoković 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5; 3rd straight French title for Nadal
- Jun 11 Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA : LA Kings defeat New Jersey Devils, 6-1 for 4-2 series win; first SC title in Kings' 45-year history
- Jun 11 The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
- Jun 11 Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
- Jun 11 US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
- Jun 12 An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in 1980
- Jun 12 The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created
- Jun 12 World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer
The Amazing Spider-Man
Jun 13 "The Amazing Spider-Man" directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone premieres at the Tokyo Film Festival
- Jun 13 A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
Baseball Record
Jun 13 San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros
- Jun 14 An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
Music Concert
Jun 14 Ringo Starr's twelfth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Todd Rundgren, Richard Page, Gregg Bissonette, and Mark Rivera, 2012-13 / Warren Ham, 2014-17
- Jun 14 The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10-year-old girl
- Jun 15 Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
- Jun 15 Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches
- Jun 16 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India
- Jun 16 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
- Jun 16 Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
- Jun 17 France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
- Jun 17 Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
- Jun 17 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic Club, SF: American Webb Simpson wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Graeme McDowell and Michael Thompson
- Jun 18 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
- Jun 18 2nd Critics' Choice Television Awards: Community wins Best Comedy Series, Homeland wins Best Drama Series
- Jun 19 A man is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery in Saudi Arabia
- Jun 19 Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
- Jun 20 A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
- Jun 20 Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
- Jun 21 A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
- Jun 21 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
NBA Finals
Jun 21 NBA Finals: Miami Heat win their second NBA title; beat Oklahoma City Thunder, 121-106 in Game 5; MVP: LeBron James
- Jun 22 Cult Bollywood film "Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1" directed by Anurag Kashyap is released in India
- Jun 22 NHL Draft: Sarnia Sting (OHL) right wing Nail Yakupov first pick by Edmonton Oilers
- Jun 22 Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
- Jun 23 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
- Jun 23 A coach crashes in Croatia killing 8 Czech tourists and injuring 44
- Jun 23 Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
- Jun 24 Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
- Jun 25 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Jun 26 Animated film "Ice Age: Continental Drift", directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Buenos Aires
- Jun 26 Police procedural drama "Line of Duty" debuts on BBC 2 in the UK
- Jun 28 A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people
Sports History
Jun 28 NBA Draft: Kentucky center Anthony Davis first pick New Orleans Pelicans
- Jun 29 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
- Jun 29 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
- Jun 29 Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
- Jun 30 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
- Jun 30 Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia
Event of Interest
Jun 30 Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt
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