Events in History
- Jun 1 KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
- Jun 1 Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
Event of Interest
Jun 5 Indira Gandhi orders an attack on Sikh's holiest site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar
- Jun 6 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
- Jun 8 Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia
- Jun 9 "Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres
- Jun 9 NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509
- Jun 9 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
- Jun 10 US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for first time
- Jun 11 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
- Jun 11 US Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
- Jun 14 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
- Jun 15 "Thicke Of The Night" TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
- Jun 16 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
Event of Interest
Jun 17 John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada
Event of Interest
Jun 22 Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways commences operations with flight from Gatwick to Newark
- Jun 25 Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
- Jun 25 STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem
- Jun 26 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
- Jun 27 Fire destroys a set in "A View to a Kill"
- Jun 27 Late Night's 1st Tower Drop
- Jun 28 Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year-old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola
- Jun 29 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
- Jun 30 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
- Jun 30 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
Event of Interest
Jun 30 Pierre Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada after serving two separate terms for a total of 15 years
Birthdays in History
Deaths in History
- Jun 5 Frederick Stratten Russell, English marine biologist (plankton life history and long-term changes in marine ecosystems), dies at 86
- Jun 5 Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
- Jun 6 A. Bertram Chandler, Anglo-Australian mariner and sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72
- Jun 11 Enrico Berlinguer, Italian National Secreatary of Italian Communist Party (PCI), dies at 62
- Jun 13 Nathaniel Owings, American architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears Tower), dies at 81
- Jun 18 Alan Berg, American radio talk show host, dies after being shot by White Nationalists at 50
- Jun 19 Lee Krasner, American abistract expressionist painter, dies at 75
- Jun 22 Joseph Losey, American theatre and film director (The Damned: The Servant; Accident; The Go-Between), dies at 75
- Jun 24 William Keighley, American director (The Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94
- Jun 25 Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDs at 57
- Jun 26 Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
Jun 30 American playwright, (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes), dies at 79
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