Historical Events
- Jun 2 45th Tony Awards: "Lost in Yonkers" & "Will Rogers Follies" win
- Jun 2 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
- Jun 2 Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
- Jun 2 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
- Jun 3 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
- Jun 3 MLB Draft: East Carteret HS pitcher Brien Taylor first pick by New York Yankees
- Jun 3 Thomas Hearns captures WBA light heavyweight title
- Jun 3 Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf
- Jun 4 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
Event of Interest
Jun 4 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with Nazi murders
John Paul II
Nobel Prize
Jun 5 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
Mikhail Gorbachev
Event of Interest
Jun 6 NBC announces Jay Leno will succeed Johnny Carson as host on "The Tonight Show" on May 25, 1992
Jay Leno
Johnny Carson
- Jun 6 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley
- Jun 7 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
- Jun 8 "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 48 performances
- Jun 8 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28
- Jun 8 College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
- Jun 8 Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
- Jun 8 Victory parade following success in the Gulf War is held in Washington, D.C.
- Jun 8 Warren Schutte is 1st non American to win NCAA Division 1 golf title
Tennis Open
Jun 8 French Open Women's Tennis: Defending champion Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain 6-3, 6-4
Monica Seles
- Jun 9 Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
- Jun 9 WLAF 1st world bowl, London Monarchs defeat Barcelona Dragons 21-0
- Jun 9 French Open Men's Tennis: Jim Courier wins first career Grand Slam title; beats fellow American Andre Agassi 3-6, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Jun 9 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Jim Albus wins his only career major title by 3 strokes from New Zealander Bob Charles, Charles Coody and Dave Hill
- Jun 10 David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" airs its final episode airs on ABC-TV
- Jun 10 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton
- Jun 10 Mother of All Parades - NYC welcomes desert storm troops
- Jun 10 South Florida and Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
- Jun 11 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
Album Release
Jun 11 Natalie Cole releases "Unforgettable...with Love", covering her father's standards, (Grammy Album of the Year)
Natalie Cole
- Jun 12 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
- Jun 12 Boris Yelstin elected President of Russian Federation
- Jun 13 A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
- Jun 13 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
- Jun 13 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
Film Release
Jun 14 "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman
Kevin Costner
Morgan Freeman
- Jun 14 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
- Jun 14 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
- Jun 15 Carolyn Tanny & Bob Trischel wed
- Jun 15 Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth of the 20th century
- Jun 15 Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois
- Jun 16 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 performances
- Jun 16 -23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
- Jun 16 Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
- Jun 16 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
- Jun 16 With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game winning streak 6-5
US Golf Open
Jun 17 US Open Golf, Hazeline National GC: Payne Stewart wins a Monday playoff with 1987 champion Scott Simpson
Payne Stewart
- Jun 17 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
Event of Interest
Jun 17 The body of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the USA, is exhumed to test how he died; rumours had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning - no evidence of this was found
Zachary Taylor
- Jun 17 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
Event of Interest
Jun 18 Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, arrives in US
Boris Yeltsin
Music Single
Jun 18 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" single released by Bryan Adams (Billboard Song of the Year 1991)
Bryan Adams
- Jun 19 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
Pablo Escobar Jailed
Jun 19 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
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Hall of Fame
Jun 21 NY Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy are elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame
Denis Potvin
Mike Bossy
Event of Interest
Jun 22 NHL Draft: Oshawa Generals center Eric Lindros first pick by Quebec Nordiques
Eric Lindros
Music Recording
Jun 23 "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music"
Weird Al Yankovic
- Jun 23 Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
- Jun 23 A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa
- Jun 24 NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minute
Event of Interest
Jun 25 Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon, beating Elna Reinach of South Africa 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the 1st round
Martina Navratilova
Event of Interest
Jun 25 Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
Franjo Tuđman
Event of Interest
Jun 26 ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress
Nelson Mandela
- Jun 26 Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
- Jun 26 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Larry Johnson first pick by Charlotte Hornets
- Jun 27 Emmy 18th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 12th time
- Jun 28 South Africa signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Jun 29 "Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 216 performances
- Jun 29 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
- Jun 29 With a world ranking of 591, Englishman Nick Brown upsets 10th-seeded (and 2001 champion) Goran Ivanišević 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in the 2nd round at Wimbledon
LPGA Championship
Jun 30 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bethesda CC: Meg Mallon wins her first major title by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Pat Bradley and Ayako Okamoto
Meg Mallon
Pat Bradley
- Jun 30 South Africa's Government repeals the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act)
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 1 Zazie Beetz, German actress (Atlanta, Deadpool 2), born in Berlin, Germany
- Jun 7 Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress, born in London, England
- Jun 10 James Cleveland McFadden-Talbot, son of Gates McFaden (Star Trek NG)
- Jun 18 Willa Holland, American actress
- Jun 19 Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
- Jun 27 Madylin Sweeten, American actress (Everybody Loves Raymond), born in Brownwood, Texas
- Jun 29 Kawhi Leonard, American basketball forward (NBA champion, Finals MVP 2014), born in Los Angeles, CA
- Jun 30 Kaho, Japanese actress
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Jun 1 Actors Roseanne Barr Arnold & Tom Arnold remarry
Roseanne Barr
- Jun 7 Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson
Wedding of Interest
Jun 9 Bruce Springsteen weds his backup singer Patty Scialfa
Bruce Springsteen
- Jun 21 Eleanor Mondale marries Greg "Thunder" Malban (Minn DJ)
Wedding of Interest
Jun 28 Explorer Jacques Cousteau (81) weds Francine Triplet in Paris
Jacques Cousteau
Famous Deaths
- Jun 1 David Ruffin, American soul musician and early lead singer for The Temptations (My Girl, Ain't Too Proud to Beg), dies of drug overdose at 50
- Jun 3 Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62
- Jun 3 Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress and director (Resurrection), dies at 92
- Jun 3 Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan
- Jun 3 Thomas C Lasorda, American artist and son of Los Angeles Dodgers manager, dies of pneumonia at 33
- Jun 3 Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
- Jun 6 Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60
- Jun 6 Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
- Jun 6 Stan Getz [Stanley Gayetski], American jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey), dies of liver cancer at 64
- Jun 7 Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
- Jun 7 Antoine Blondin, French writer (L'Europe buissonnière), dies at 69
- Jun 8 Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies
- Jun 8 Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43
- Jun 9 Bob Irwin, Comedian, dies of Alzheimer's related illness at 88
- Jun 9 Charles Loloma, painter/sculptor, dies
- Jun 9 Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra), dies following surgery at 88
- Jun 9 Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77
- Jun 10 Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies
- Jun 11 Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies
- Jun 14 Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84
- Jun 14 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83
- Jun 14 Bernard Miles, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Great Expectations, In Which We Serve), dies at 83
- Jun 15 Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
- Jun 16 Vicky Brown, American singer (Power of Love), dies
- Jun 18 Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69
- Jun 19 Jean Arthur, American actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 90
- Jun 22 Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82
- Jun 22 Kevin O'Connor, actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at 56
- Jun 23 Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66
- Jun 23 Bill Buysman, Dutch guitarist/singer (Kilima Hawaiians), dies
- Jun 24 Martin Rosenblatt, actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, NY Stories), dies at 74
- Jun 24 Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter, dies at 91
- Jun 24 Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (b. 1917)
- Jun 26 Paul Andor, actor (Mad Lover, Enemy of Women), dies
- Jun 27 Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered
- Jun 27 Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister), dies
- Jun 27 Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
- Jun 28 Ernie McCormick, cricketer (12 Tests for Australia), dies
- Jun 28 Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies
- Jun 29 Richard "Groove" Holmes, American jazz organist (Misty), dies of cancer at 60