June 1977 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jun 5 National Council of Women of Kenya led by Wangari Maathai march to Kamukunji Park, Nairobi, and plant seven trees - beginning of the Green Belt Movement

Environmentalist Wangari Maathai — Environmentalist
Wangari Maathai

Jun 6 "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
Jun 6 Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
Jun 6 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
Jun 7 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
Jun 9 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist

Notable Fireworks

Jun 9 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain celebrated with fireworks

Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II — Queen of the United Kingdom
Elizabeth II

Jun 10 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers

Jun 10 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
Jun 10 International Labour Organisation and United Nations meet to discuss apartheid in South Africa and potential actions to prevent further violence and state repression.
Jun 11 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
Jun 11 ELO releases "Telephone Line"

Event of Interest

Jun 12 Groundbreaking ceremony for John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

35th US President John F. Kennedy — 35th US President
John F. Kennedy

Jun 13 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
Jun 15 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)
Jun 15 Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam
Jun 16 Fianna Fail party wins Irish elections

Event of Interest

Jun 16 Leonid Brezhnev named Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev — Soviet General Secretary
Leonid Brezhnev

Event of Interest

Jun 16 Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates

Entrepreneur and Founder of Oracle Larry Ellison — Entrepreneur and Founder of Oracle
Larry Ellison

Jun 18 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
Jun 19 Indians fire manager Frank Robinson & replace him with Jeff Torborg
Jun 19 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint

Event of Interest

Jun 20 Menachem Begin forms Israeli government

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin — Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin

Jun 20 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
Jun 21 Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman enters prison
Jun 21 Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel's 6th Prime Minister
Jun 21 Bülent Ecevit forms a minority government in Turkey which lasts only 1 month
Jun 22 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
Jun 23 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-4
Jun 23 Violence erupts in Soweto, South Africa, again and the police make at least 146 arrests

Event of Interest

Jun 24 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976

39th US President Jimmy Carter — 39th US President
Jimmy Carter

Jun 24 Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
Jun 25 Roy C Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time!
Jun 26 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
Jun 26 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
Jun 27 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
Jun 27 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France
Jun 27 Willie McCovey smashes 2 HRs in inning for 2nd time (Apr 12, 1973)
Jun 28 Billy Hunter becomes Rangers' 4th manager in 6 days
Jun 28 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
Jun 28 The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, is formally disbanded by the majority faction after members leave the party to join other new political parties
Jun 29 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
Jun 29 Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR
Jun 29 South Africa opposition party, the New Republic Party (NRP), is formed after the integration of the United Party (UP) and Democratic Party (DP)
Jun 30 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
Jun 30 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Washington, D.C.)
Jun 30 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto

Birthdays in History

Jun 6 Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
Jun 9 Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
Jun 17 Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands
Jun 26 Kubo Tite, Japanese manga artist (Bleach), born in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan
Jun 28 Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
Jun 29 Oleg Korenfeld, Russian-born American poet

Weddings in History

Wedding of Interest

Jun 17 Senator Joe Biden of Delaware (34) weds Jill Jacobs (26) at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York City

47th Vice President of the United States Joe Biden — 47th Vice President of the United States
Joe Biden

Divorces in History

Jun 9 George & Patti Harrison divorce

Deaths in History

Jun 3 Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
Jun 9 Hans Andreus, [Johan W van de Zant], Dutch poet, dies at 51
Jun 13 Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67), dies in NY at 77

Werner von Braun

Jun 16 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking

Jun 19 Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
Jun 24 André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician, dies in car crash at 33
Jun 25 Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guides, dies at 88
Jun 26 Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist, dies at 75
Jun 29 Anton Hildebrand, Dutch children's book writer (Monus), dies at 70
Jun 29 Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)

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