- Jun 2 45th Tony Awards: "Lost in Yonkers" & "Will Rogers Follies" win
- Jun 2 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
- Jun 2 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
- Jun 2 Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
- Jun 2 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
- Jun 3 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
- Jun 3 NY Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft
- Jun 3 Thomas Hearns captures WBA light heavyweight title
- Jun 3 Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf
- Jun 4 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
Event of Interest
Jun 4 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with Nazi murders
John Paul II
Nobel Prize
Jun 5 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
Mikhail Gorbachev
- Jun 5 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
- Jun 6 Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
- Jun 6 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
- Jun 6 NBC announces Jay Leno will succeed Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
- Jun 6 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley
- Jun 7 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
- Jun 8 "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 48 performances
- Jun 8 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28
- Jun 8 College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
- Jun 8 Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
- Jun 8 Victory parade following success in the Gulf War is held in Washington, D.C.
- Jun 8 Warren Schutte is 1st non American to win NCAA Division 1 golf title
- Jun 9 9th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Albus
- Jun 9 Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
- Jun 9 WLAF 1st world bowl London Monarchs defeat Barcelona Dragons 21-0
Tennis Open
Jun 9 90th Men's French Open: Jim Courier beats Andre Agassi (3-6, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4)
Andre Agassi
- Jun 9 90th Women's French Open: Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (6-3, 6-4)
- Jun 10 David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" airs its final episode airs on ABC-TV
- Jun 10 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton
- Jun 10 Mother of All Parades - NYC welcomes desert storm troops
- Jun 10 South Florida and Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
- Jun 11 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
Album Release
Jun 11 Natalie Cole releases "Unforgettable...with Love", covering her father's standards, (Grammy Album of the Year)
Natalie Cole
- Jun 12 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
- Jun 12 Boris Yelstin elected President of Russian Federation
- Jun 13 A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
- Jun 13 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
- Jun 13 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
Film Release
Jun 14 "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman
Kevin Costner
Morgan Freeman
- Jun 14 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
- Jun 14 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
- Jun 15 Carolyn Tanny & Bob Trischel wed
- Jun 15 Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth of the 20th century
- Jun 15 Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois
- Jun 16 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 performances
- Jun 16 -23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
- Jun 16 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
- Jun 16 Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
- Jun 16 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
- Jun 16 With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5
Golf Major
Jun 17 US Open Golf, Hazeline National GC: Payne Stewart wins a Monday playoff with 1987 champion Scott Simpson
Payne Stewart
- Jun 17 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
Event of Interest
Jun 17 The body of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the USA, is exhumed to test how he died; rumours had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning - no evidence of this was found
Zachary Taylor
- Jun 17 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
Event of Interest
Jun 18 Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, arrives in US
Boris Yeltsin
Music Single
Jun 18 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" single released by Bryan Adams (Billboard Song of the Year 1991)
Bryan Adams
- Jun 19 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
Event of Interest
Jun 19 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
Pablo Escobar
Hall of Fame
Jun 21 NY Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy are elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame
Denis Potvin
Mike Bossy
Event of Interest
Jun 22 Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft
Eric Lindros
- Jun 22 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines
- Jun 23 "Odd Couple" opens & closes at Belasco Theater NYC
- Jun 23 "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music"
- Jun 23 Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
- Jun 23 Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
- Jun 23 A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa
- Jun 24 NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minute
Event of Interest
Jun 25 Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
Martina Navratilova
- Jun 25 Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
- Jun 25 Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa
- Jun 25 Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa
- Jun 26 "Getting Married" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 70 performances
Event of Interest
Jun 26 ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress
Nelson Mandela
- Jun 26 Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
- Jun 26 Charlotte Hornets make Larry Johnson of UNLV, NBA's #1 draft pick
- Jun 27 Emmy 18th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 12th time
- Jun 28 South Africa signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Jun 29 "Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 216 performances
- Jun 29 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
- Jun 29 Britain's Nick Brown, 591st rank beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in 2nd round at Wimbledon
- Jun 30 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon
- Jun 30 South Africa's Government repeals the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act)