Events in History
- Jun 1 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
- Jun 1 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
- Jun 2 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
- Jun 3 Belgium government of Tindemans forms
- Jun 3 US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
- Jun 4 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
- Jun 4 An estimated 20,000 Scottish football fans invade the Wembley Stadium pitch after Scotland beats England, 2-1; goalposts and advertising hoardings destroyed
- Jun 5 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win
- Jun 5 Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
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
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
Elizabeth II
- Jun 10 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers
Event of Interest
Jun 10 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
James Earl Ray
Event of Interest
Jun 12 Groundbreaking ceremony for John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
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
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
Larry Ellison
- Jun 18 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
Event of Interest
Jun 20 Menachem Begin forms Israeli government
Menachem Begin
- Jun 20 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
Event of Interest
Jun 21 Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman enters prison
H. R. Haldeman
- 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 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
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 26 Tim Severin aboard the Brendan reaches Newfoundland in attempt to prove sixth-century Irish monks could have voyaged across the Atlantic
- Jun 27 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
- Jun 27 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France
- 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 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.)
Birthdays in History
Weddings in History
Divorces in History
- Jun 9 George & Patti Harrison divorce
Deaths in History
Wernher von Braun
Jun 16 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
Wernher von Braun
- 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 American 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)