Historical Events in June 1988

Jun 3 "Big" film directed by Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks premieres in US

Jun 3 Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony
Jun 4 "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)

Jun 4 Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee

Jun 5 87th Men's French Open: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (7-5, 6-2, 6-1)

Jun 5 87th Women's French Open: Steffi Graf beats Natalia Zvereva (6-0, 6-0)
Jun 6 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis & Statler Brothers
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 "We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14

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 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper
Jun 12 Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy
Jun 12 Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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 13 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRs, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
Jun 13 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
Jun 13 Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer

Jun 13 George Harrison releases "This is Love"

Jun 13 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
Jun 14 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000, alleges he hit her
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

Jun 17 Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife 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 Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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

Jun 20 88th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange wins playoff by 4 from Nick Faldo after finishing on 6-under-278 in regulation play

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
Jun 23 Yanks manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
Jun 24 Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
Jun 24 Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
Jun 25 "Chess" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances
Jun 25 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June

Jun 25 Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game

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: Ruud Gullet & Marco van Basten score as the Netherlands beats Soviet Union 2-0 in Munich
Jun 25 Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Jun 26 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
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
Jun 29 Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time
Jun 30 "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV
Jun 30 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
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.