Historical Events in June 1976

Jun 3 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta

Jun 5 108th Belmont: Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr., riding Bold Forbes wins his only Belmont classic

Jun 5 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
Jun 5 After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland
Jun 6 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
Jun 6 "The Omen" premieres in the UK

Jun 7 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor & David Brinkley, premieres

Jun 8 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks

Jun 12 "Yes, Yes, Yes" by Bill Cosby hits #46

Jun 13 Canadian Open Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Cedar Brae CC: Donna Caponi wins in a playoff with Judy Rankin

Jun 13 Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam

Jun 13 Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
Jun 13 French Open Women's Tennis: Sue Barker of England claims her lone major singles title; beats Renáta Tomanová of Czechoslovakia 6-2, 0-6, 6-2
Jun 14 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
Jun 14 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
Jun 14 French Open Men's Tennis: Adriano Panatta of Italy beats American Harold Solomon 6-1, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 for his lone Grand Slam singles title
Jun 15 In a blockbuster MLB trade, NY Yankees send May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore Orioles for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
Jun 15 Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium
Jun 16 Students in Soweto, South Africa, march against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools
Jun 17 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
Jun 17 Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
Jun 18 A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000
Jun 18 St Louis Cards Lou Brock & Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park HRs
Jun 18 Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, & Vida Blue to Yankees

Jun 19 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
Jun 20 US Open Men's Golf, Atlanta AC: Tour rookie Jerry Pate wins his only major title, 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Al Geiberger and Tom Weiskopf
Jun 20 Carol Fugate, Starkweather accomplice, is paroled
Jun 20 Disney's River Country opens at Bay Lake (closed 2001)
Jun 20 UEFA European Championship Final, Red Star Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia: Czechoslovakia upsets West Germany, 5-3 on penalties following 2-2 draw a.e.t
Jun 21 Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
Jun 22 "Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 527 performances
Jun 22 SD Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk
Jun 23 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
Jun 23 The U.S. vetoes Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security
Jun 24 1975 movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
Jun 24 A Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town, South Africa, is burnt down; part of the broader resistance against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium in their schools
Jun 25 Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
Jun 25 The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
Jun 25 "The Omen" premieres in the US

Jun 25 26th Berlin International Film Festival: "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson" wins the Golden Bear

Jun 26 Washington Senators player Toby Harrah plays an entire doubleheader at shortstop without a single chance in the field
Jun 27 "Pacific Overtures" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 193 performances
Jun 27 Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda
Jun 27 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
Jun 27 In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness
Jun 27 Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers members Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany
Jun 28 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Jun 28 Three British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
Jun 29 The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
Jun 30 John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4