Event of Interest
Jun 2 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", San Francisco
Allen Ginsberg
- Jun 3 1st US Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Historic Communication
Jun 3 US President Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker a message off the Moon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Diefenbaker
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Jun 5 The first independent government of the State of Singapore is sworn in with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew
- Jun 7 KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
- Jun 8 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Florida)
- Jun 8 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
- Jun 9 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)
- Jun 10 Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
- Jun 11 Saunders-Roe SR.N1, the first practical hovercraft, performs its first public flight
Event of Interest
Jun 11 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
D. H. Lawrence
Event of Interest
Jun 11 Charlie Sifford becomes the 1st African American to play in a US Golf Open
Charlie Sifford
- Jun 12 SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
- Jun 13 "Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV
- Jun 13 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
- Jun 13 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
- Jun 16 South African Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to newly established black township Kwa Mashu, on outskirts met with violent resistance
- Jun 17 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland
- Jun 18 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
- Jun 18 Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane
- Jun 18 New York City premiere of the film version of Kathryn Hulme's "The Nun's Story"
- Jun 19 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secetary of Commerce
- Jun 22 "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9
- Jun 22 "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38
- Jun 22 Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
- Jun 22 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
- Jun 22 Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
- Jun 22 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
- Jun 23 Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career)
- Jun 23 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people
Boxing Title Fight
Jun 26 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
Floyd Patterson
- Jun 26 Queen Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway
- Jun 26 9th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Cousins" wins Golden Bear
- Jun 27 "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances
Golf Major
Jun 27 US Open Women's Golf, Churchill Valley CC: Mickey Wright successfully defends her Open title by 2 strokes from Louise Suggs
Mickey Wright
Louise Suggs
Event of Interest
Jun 29 Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
John XXIII
- Jun 30 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time