- Jun 1 2,400 people attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
Music Concert
Jun 1 George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
George Harrison
Ravi Shankar
- Jun 1 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
- Jun 1 Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
- Jun 2 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
- Jun 3 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
- Jun 3 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
- Jun 4 Single "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
- Jun 4 -10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
- Jun 4 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
- Jun 5 Cincinnati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
Tennis Open
Jun 5 French Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Tony Roche wins his first and only Grand Slam title; beats István Gulyás of Hungary 6-1, 6-4, 7-5
Tony Roche
- Jun 5 French Championships Women's Tennis: Ann Haydon-Jones of England beats American Nancy Richey 6-3, 6-1 for her 2nd French singles crown
- Jun 6 Civil rights activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
- Jun 6 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
- Jun 6 NFL & AFL announce their merger
- Jun 6 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
Event of Interest
Jun 7 NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
Reggie Jackson
- Jun 8 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970
- Jun 8 Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
- Jun 9 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
- Jun 10 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
- Jun 10 Beatles record "Rain" 1st to use reverse tapes
- Jun 10 Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Washington Senator, 2-0
Music Concert
Jun 10 Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco)
Janis Joplin
#1 in the Charts
Jun 11 "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1 in the US
Charlie Watts
- Jun 11 "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 performances
- Jun 11 "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hits #1 in UK
- Jun 11 French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
- Jun 11 Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (San Francisco)
TV Show Appearance
Jun 12 Dave Clark Five sets record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan Show
Ed Sullivan
- Jun 13 US Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights
- Jun 14 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
- Jun 14 Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
- Jun 16 Rowan & Martin host The Dean Martin Show, Summer Series, on NBC-TV
- Jun 16 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
- Jun 17 Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers
US Golf Open
Jun 20 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic CC: Billy Casper erases a 7-stroke deficit on the final 9 holes to tie Arnold Palmer; wins Monday 18-hole playoff by 4 strokes
Arnold Palmer
Event of Interest
Jun 20 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
Sheila Scott
- Jun 21 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
Film Release
Jun 21 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", directed by Mike Nichols and based on the 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1967)
Virginia Woolf
Elizabeth Taylor
- Jun 22 South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government
- Jun 24 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
- Jun 24 16th Berlin International Film Festival: "Cul-de-Sac" wins the Golden Bear
- Jun 25 Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
Music Premiere
Jun 25 Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jun 25 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
- Jun 26 "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 performances
- Jun 26 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
- Jun 27 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
- Jun 27 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2
- Jun 28 Ernie Terrell beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 29 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time
- Jun 29 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
- Jun 30 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
- Jun 30 Leopoldville, Congo is renamed Kinshasa
- Jun 30 Richard Helms promoted from deputy director to 8th director of US Central Intelligence Agency
- Jun 30 Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI Trent Bridge, wicketless
- Jun 30 Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA