Film Premier
Jun 3 "Big" film directed by Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks premieres in US
Tom Hanks
Penny Marshall
- Jun 3 Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony
- Jun 4 Revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's "Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 262 performances
- Jun 4 42nd Tony Awards: "M Butterfly" and "Phantom of the Opera" win
- Jun 4 Longest game in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat NY 7-6)
Baseball Record
Jun 4 Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee
Rickey Henderson
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 4 French Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf dominates Natalia Zvereva of Belarus 6-0, 6-0; shortest women's singles Grand Slam final in Open Era; 32 minutes
Steffi Graf
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 5 French Open Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander of Sweden wins 3rd French title; beats home favourite Henri Leconte 7-5, 6-2, 6-1
Mats Wilander
Henri Leconte
Event of Interest
Jun 6 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis & Statler Brothers
Randy Travis
- Jun 6 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
- Jun 6 George H. W. Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
- Jun 7 Aluminum contaminates Cornwall's water supply
- Jun 8 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
- Jun 9 "Bloodsport (1987)" premieres in Germany
- Jun 9 US Attorney General Edwin Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
- Jun 10 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
- Jun 11 "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall & John Oates peaks at #3
- Jun 11 "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61
- Jun 11 120th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6
- Jun 11 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7
- Jun 11 Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London
- Jun 11 Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8½")
- Jun 11 Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI)
- Jun 12 Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy
- Jun 12 The Republic of Ireland beats England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a headed goal by Ray Houghton. This is Ireland's first competitive match at a major football tournament.
- Jun 12 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Sawgrass: Billy Casper wins final career major title by 2 strokes from Al Geiberger
A Beautiful Day in Moscow
Jun 12 Soviet Union holds its 1st beauty content in Moscow, 16 year old Maria Kalinina crowned the winner
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Event of Interest
Jun 13 George Harrison releases "This is Love"
George Harrison
- Jun 13 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
Event of Interest
Jun 14 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000, alleges he hit her
Chuck Berry
- Jun 14 "Guy" debut album by Guy is released
- Jun 15 NASA launches space vehicle S-213
- Jun 15 Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
- Jun 16 Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
- Jun 16 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
Event of Interest
Jun 17 Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
Mike Tyson
Robin Givens
- Jun 17 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
- Jun 17 Soyuz TM-5 launches
- Jun 17 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
- Jun 18 Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run
- Jun 19 Namphy takes control of Haitian government
- Jun 19 World's then largest sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long
- Jun 19 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
US Golf Open
Jun 20 US Open Men's Golf, The Country Club: Curtis Strange wins a Monday 18-hole playoff by 4 strokes from Englishman Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo
- Jun 20 Coup in Haiti: Henri Namphy overthrows Leslie Manigat, general assembly dissolved
- Jun 20 NYC WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of NJ Devils
- Jun 20 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
- Jun 20 Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities
- Jun 21 42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
- Jun 21 Many killed at demonstration against General Ne Win in Rangoon
- Jun 21 Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
- Jun 23 Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft
Event of Interest
Jun 23 Yanks manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
Billy Martin
Event of Interest
Jun 25 Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
Cal Ripken Jr
- Jun 25 Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
- Jun 25 Iceland's President Vigdis Finnbogadóttir elected (90+%)
- Jun 25 Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss
- Jun 25 UEFA European Championship Final, Olympiastadion, Munich, Germany: Ruud Gullet & Marco van Basten score as the Netherlands beats Soviet Union, 2-0
- Jun 25 Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
- Jun 27 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
- Jun 27 Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning
- Jun 28 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton
Event of Interest
Jun 29 Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time
Susan Lucci
- Jun 30 "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV
- Jun 30 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason and his role as bus driver Ralph Kramden in "The Honeymooners"
- Jun 30 Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Florida
- Jun 30 French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.