Events in Sport
Baseball Record
Jun 1 Oakland A's left fielder Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases in 3-2 win over Boston Red Sox to become fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a MLB season
Rickey Henderson
- Jun 5 114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr.aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 5 French Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats American teenager Andrea Jaeger 7-6, 6-1 for her first French singles crown
Martina Navratilova
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 6 French Open Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander of Sweden wins his first career Grand Slam title; beats Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 1-6, 7-6, 6-0, 6-4
Mats Wilander
Guillermo Vilas
Event of Interest
Jun 7 LA Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games
Steve Garvey
Event of Interest
Jun 7 NY Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell & Randy Myers
Dwight Gooden
- Jun 7 Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game & goes 0-for-4
- Jun 8 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2
Boxing Title Fight
Jun 11 Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
Larry Holmes
- Jun 13 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Jan Stephenson of Australia wins by 2 strokes from JoAnne Carner
US Golf Open
Jun 20 US Open Men's Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Tom Watson wins his only US Open by 2 strokes from Jack Nicklaus
Tom Watson
Jack Nicklaus
Birthdays in Sport
- Jun 1 Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player (7 x Grand Slam singles titles; Olympic gold 2004; WTA Tour C'ship 2006, 07; 43 x WTA singles titles), born in Liège, Belgium
- Jun 3 Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter (Olympic gold 2004, 08), born in Volgograd, Russia
- Jun 7 Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player
- Jun 8 Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
- Jun 8 Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
- Jun 10 Tara Lipinski, figure skater (1997 World Champ), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jun 11 Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier, born in Levanger, Norway
- Jun 11 Joey Graham, American basketball player (Toronto Raptors), born in Wilmington, Delaware
- Jun 11 Stephen Graham, American basketball player, born in Wilmington, Delaware
- Jun 11 Diana Taurasi, American basketball player (Phoenix Mercury), born in Glendale, California
- Jun 12 Loïc Duval, French racing driver (Audi Sport), born in Chartres, France
- Jun 12 Jason David, American NFL cornerback (Indianapolis Colts), born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Jun 13 Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete (Olympic gold 10,000m 2004, 08; 5,000m 2008; World C'ship gold 10,000m 2003, 05, 07, 09; 5,000m 2009; 11 x World Cross Country gold), born in Bekoji, Ethiopia
- Jun 14 Jamie Green, British racing driver
- Jun 15 Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Jun 16 Chris Wingert, American soccer player
- Jun 17 Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player
- Jun 19 David Pollack, American football player
- Jun 19 Alexander Frolov, Russian hockey player
- Jun 22 Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
- Jun 24 Kevin Nolan, English footballer
- Jun 24 Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
- Jun 25 Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player, born in Moscow, Russia
- Jun 30 Mitch Maier, American baseball player
Deaths in Sport
- Jun 8 Satchel Paige, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (5-time Negro League, 2-time MLB All Star), dies of a heart attack at 75
- Jun 13 Ken Mackay, Australian cricketer (Aussie all-rounder 1956-63), dies at 56
- Jun 13 Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
