- Jun 1 2,400 people attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
Music Concert
Jun 1 George Harrison is impressed by sitarist Ravi Shankar's concert in London
- 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
French Open Men's Tennis
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
French Open Women's Tennis
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
Historic Event
Jun 6 Civil rights activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
Sports History
Jun 7 MLB Draft: New York Mets pass on Reggie Jackson to select Antelope Valley HS catcher Steve Chilcott #1
Baseball Record
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
Music Concert
Jun 10 Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco)
- Jun 10 Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
- Jun 10 Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig with Big Brother & The Holding Company, at Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California
- Jun 11 "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
- Jun 11 "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
- Jun 11 "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 performances
#1 in the Charts
Jun 11 "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1 in the US
TV Show Appearance
Jun 12 Dave Clark Five sets record as they appear for 12th time on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
Music History
Jun 16 Rowan & Martin host "The Dean Martin Show" Summer Series, on NBC-TV
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
Historic Event
Jun 20 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
- 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)
- 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
- 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 28 Ernie Terrell beats Doug Jones by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in Houston to retain his WBA 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 The 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 England spin bowler Derek Underwood goes wicketless in his Test cricket debut v West Indies at Nottingham; captures 297 wickets in illustrious 86 Test career
- Jun 30 Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA