Events in History
Iran-Contra Hearing
Jun 8 Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall testifies at Iran-Contra hearing
- Jun 10 NASA Discovery's SRBs & external tank are mated
Event of Interest
Jun 11 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term
Dictator Bokassa I
Jun 12 Central African Republic ex-emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa sentenced to death
Tear Down this Wall!
Jun 12 US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall
- Jun 14 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
- Jun 15 Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
- Jun 16 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
- Jun 16 New York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
- Jun 17 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct
- Jun 19 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed
- Jun 19 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
- Jun 20 Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss
- Jun 21 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
- Jun 22 The International Labour Organisation, meeting for its annual conference in Geneva, calls for international sanctions against South African minerals
Event of Interest
Jun 25 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
- Jun 26 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announces his retirement
- Jun 27 In South Africa, the Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
- Jun 29 Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts
- Jun 30 The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie
Birthdays in History
- Jun 10 James Maynard, English mathematician (Fields Medal 2022 for analytic number theory), born in Chelmsford, England
- Jun 13 Charlotte Wells, Scottish director (Aftersun), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Jun 25 Sasha Velour [Alexander Steinberg], American drag artist (RuPaul's Drag Race), born in Berkeley, California
Deaths in History
- Jun 1 Errol W Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
- Jun 1 Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (elected Prime Minister 8 times between 1958-87), assassinated by a bomb rigged in his helicopter at 65
- Jun 3 Roel Houwink, Dutch writer and poet (1 Man Without Character), dies at 88
- Jun 7 John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73
- Jun 15 Walter Heller, American economist (Old Myths & New Realities), dies at 71
- Jun 18 Bruce Marshall, Scottish writer, dies at 87
- Jun 19 Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
- Jun 26 Arthur F. Burns, American economist and chairman (Federal Reserve Board), dies at 82
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