Historical Events
- Jun 1 FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
- Jun 1 Indiana guard Reggie Miller drills an NBA Playoff record 5 three-pointers in the 4th quarter of the Pacers’ 93-86 win over host New York Knicks in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals
Event of Interest
Jun 1 US GeneralNorman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
- Jun 2 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
- Jun 2 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
Film & TV History
Jun 2 Indonesian censors banSteven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
Film & TV History
Jun 2Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
- Jun 3 5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java (150+ killed)
- Jun 3 WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 4 French Open Women's Tennis:Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain beatsMary Pierce 6-4, 6-4 for her 2nd career Grand Slam title, and her 2nd French singles crown
- Jun 4 Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
- Jun 5 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 5 French Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Spanish finalSergi Bruguera beats Alberto Berasategui 6-3, 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 for his second French title
Music History
Jun 5Spalding Gray's one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" opens an encore run at Beaumont Theater, NYC; runs for 8 performances
Music City News Awards
Jun 6 28th Music City News Country Awards:Alan Jackson &Ray Stevens win
- Jun 6 6.0 earthquake followed by avalanche destroys Toez, Colombia (about 1000 killed)
- Jun 6 CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
- Jun 6 Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
- Jun 6 Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
Brian Lara Sets Record
Jun 6 West Indian cricket batsmanBrian Lara hits world 1st-class record 501 not out and 390 runs in 1 day for Warwickshire vs Durham at Edgbaston; only quintuple-hundred in first-class history
Baseball Record
Jun 7 MLB Oakland A's outfielderRickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base
Sports History
Jun 10 American tennis aceJennifer Capriati checks out of drug abuse clinic
- Jun 10 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
- Jun 10 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Jun 11 "Meet The Flintstones" by The B-52's (stylized for this release as The B.C. 52's) from the 1994 film The Flintstones peaks at #33
Belmont Stakes
Jun 11 126th Belmont:Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
- Jun 11 Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, & 8' high in Jacksonville, Florida - largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn
- Jun 11 Drunken police officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun, Sweden
- Jun 11 Moshood Abiola becomes President of Nigeria
Papal Visit
Jun 12 -17] PopeJohn Paul II visits Spain
- Jun 12 48th Tony Awards: "Angels in America: Perestroika" (play) & "Passion: (musical) win
Music History
Jun 12Cab Calloway suffers a massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY
- Jun 12 Moshood Abiola declares himself lawful President of Nigeria
- Jun 13 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages
Contract of Interest
Jun 13 Chicago Cub 2nd basemanRyne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
Sports History
Jun 13Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
- Jun 14 Stanley Cup Final, Madison Square Garden: New York Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 3-2 for a 4-3 series victory; Rangers end their record 54-year Championship drought
- Jun 15 New York Giants cut Super Bowl XXI MVP quarterback Phil Simms after 15 years service with the NFL club
Sports History
Jun 16 Canadian goaltenderMartin Brodeur becomes 1st New Jersey Devil to win Calder Trophy, for Rookie of the Year
Murder of Interest
Jun 17O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA police chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours before he eventually gives up (seen live on national TV)
- Jun 18 Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
- Jun 18 Gay Games open in NYC
- Jun 19 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 performances
- Jun 19 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 performances
- Jun 19 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
She Loves Me
Jun 19 Revival of Jerry Bock andSheldon Harnick's musical "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater (having transferred from the Criterion), NYC, after 354 performances and a Tony Award win
- Jun 19 Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games
- Jun 20 Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
- Jun 20 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actorO.J. Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
- Jun 20 Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network
- Jun 20 US Fairchild Hospital Air Force Base massacre, former gunman kills 5 and injures 22
US Golf Open
Jun 20 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC:Ernie Els of South Africa wins on the second sudden-death hole to defeat Loren Roberts, afterColin Montgomerie was eliminated in an 18-hole playoff
Sports History
Jun 21 German tennis superstarSteffi Graf becomes first defending champion to lose in the 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to American Lorrie McNeal)
NBA Finals
Jun 22 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
- Jun 22 FIFA World Cup: USA beats Colombia 2-1 in round match at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, 1st WC win since 1950
Baseball Record
Jun 22Ken Griffey Jr. breaks Ruth's record for most HRs by end of June (31)
- Jun 22 Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253
- Jun 23 Moshood Abiola is accused of treason and arrested after declaring himself president of Nigeria
- Jun 23 Opération Turquoise: 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians under the mandate of the United Nations
- Jun 23 Replay shows Oakland Athletics's Bobby Witt beat Kansas City's Greg Gagne to 1st in 6th but umpire Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, ruining Witt's perfect game
- Jun 23 South Africa reclaims its seat in United Nations
- Jun 24 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
Glastonbury Festival
Jun 24 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Levellers,Elvis Costello, andPeter Gabriel headline; other performers include Spin Doctors,Johnny Cash, Meshell Ndegeocello, Dwight Yoakam, Lucky Dube,Oasis, and Iris Dement
- Jun 25 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
- Jun 25 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
- Jun 25 Cleveland Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
- Jun 25 FIFA World Cup: 1,500th goal in Cup'd history scored by Caceres of Argentina
- Jun 25 Gay Games close in NYC
- Jun 25 Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
- Jun 26 "Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances
- Jun 26 104°F (40°C) at Denver, Colorado
- Jun 26 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Jun 26 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso, Texas
- Jun 26 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin, Nevada
- Jun 26 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, California
- Jun 26 Air Ivory Fokker-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)
Broken Glass
Jun 26Arthur Miller's stage drama "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theatre, NYC, after 73 performances
Sports History
Jun 26Kirby Puckett passRod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader
Event of Interest
Jun 26 PLO leaderYasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
Senior Players Championship
Jun 26 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: 1992 championDave Stockton wins by 6 strokes from Jim Albus
- Jun 27 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood, New Mexico a state record
- Jun 27 Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
- Jun 27 NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
- Jun 27Spalding Gray's one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater, NYC, after 8 performances
Sports History
Jun 28Jonah Lomu becomes the youngest-ever All Black at 19 yrs 45 days playing rugby for New Zealand against France in Christchurch
Sports History
Jun 28 MLB New York Mets pitcherDwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges
- Jun 28 NHL Draft: Windsor Spitfires (OHL) defenceman Ed Jovanovski first pick by Florida Panthers
- Jun 29 128°F (53°C) Lake Havasu City, Arizona (state record, breaking previous set in 1905)
- Jun 29 NBA Draft: Purdue small forward Glenn Robinson first pick by Milwaukee Bucks
- Jun 29 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
- Jun 29 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
- Jun 30 Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
- Jun 30 Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games
- Jun 30 Pre-trial hearings open in LA againstO.J. Simpson
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 1 Tobi Bakre, Nigerian actor (Brotherhood), born in Lagos, Nigeria
- Jun 7 Aaron Pierre, English actor known for "Genius", born in London
- Jun 10 Nicholas Santo Pietro, son of Vanna White
- Jun 11 Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress (Pan's Labyrinth), born in Barcelona
- Jun 11 Jessica Fox, Australian slalom canoeist (Olympic gold C-1 2020, 24; K-1 2024; 14 x World C'ship gold), born in Marseille, France
- Jun 12 Don Toliver, American singer and rapper (Heaver or Hell), born in Houston, Texas
- Jun 14 Taeil [Moon Tae-il, Korean K-pop singer in band NCT, born in Seoul, South Korea
- Jun 15 Lee Kiefer, American fencer (Olympic gold women's individual foil 2020, 24; team 2024), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Jun 18 Takeoff [Kirsnick Ball], American rapper (Migos), born in Lawrenceville, Georgia (d. 2022)[1]
- Jun 22 Marnus Labuschagne, Australian cricket batsman (HS 215; Queensland CA, Brisbane Heat, Glamorgan CCC), born in Klerksdorp, South Africa
- Jun 23 HoYeon Jung, South Korean model and actress (Squid Game), born in Seoul, South Korea
- Jun 24 Erin Moriarty, American actress (The Boys), born in New York City
- Jun 28 Madeline Duggan, English actress (Lauren Branning-EastEnders), born in Bermondsey, London
- Jun 28 Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah, Prince of Jordan and heir apparent of King Abdullah II of Jordan, born in Amman, Jordan
- Jun 29 Camila Mendes, American Brazilian actress (Riverdale), born in Charlottesville, Virginia
- Jun 29 Leandro Paredes, Argentine footballer (Paris Saint-Germain), born in San Justo, Argentina
Famous Weddings
Eddie Vedder
Jun 3 American "Pearl Jam" singerEddie Vedder (29) weds high school sweetheart and "Hovercraft" bassist Beth Liebling (27) in Rome, Italy; divorce in 2000
Neil Armstrong
Jun 12 AstronautNeil Armstrong (63) marries second wife Carol Held Knight
- Jun 26 American "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26); divorce in 2018
Famous Divorces
- Jun 1 Guns N' Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
Sally Field
Jun 24 Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
Famous Deaths
- Jun 1 Frances Heflin, American actress (All My Children, The Skin of Our Teeth), dies of lung cancer at 73
- Jun 1 Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
- Jun 1 Wim van der Grinten, Dutch lawyer and KVP politician (State Secretary of Economic Affairs), dies at 80
- Jun 2 David Stove, Australian philosopher who held a competition to find the "worst argument in the world", commits suicide at 66
- Jun 3 Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (British Under-19 Champ, 1951 and 1952; World Amateur Champ, 1978; World Senior Champ 1991), dies at 60
- Jun 3 Harry Hickox, American actor (Herb-Please Don't Eat the Daisies), dies at 83
- Jun 3 Hub Matthijsen, Dutch violinist and bandmaster, dies at 52
- Jun 3 Jack Cowie, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (9 Tests, 45 wickets; Auckland CA) and umpire (3 Tests 1956–59), dies at 82
- Jun 3 Puig "Pipette" Aubert, French rugby league footballer (46 caps, 15 test matches), dies at 69[1]
- Jun 3 Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, work with split-brain research), dies at 89
- Jun 4 Derek "Lek" Leckenby, English rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at 48
- Jun 4 Earle Warren, American jazz alto sax player, dies at 79
- Jun 4 Jean Daetwyler, Swiss composer, chiefly of music for the alpenhorn, and music educator, dies at 87
- Jun 4 Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41
- Jun 4 Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape gardener, dies at 84
- Jun 4 Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter), dies at 33
- Jun 4 Thomas Stuart Willan, English economic historian, dies at 84
- Jun 4 Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet, dies at 59
- Jun 4 [Horace] Stephen McNally, American attorney and actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo; Criss Cross), dies of heart failure at 82
- Jun 5 Ish Kabbible [Merwyn A Bogue], American comedian and cornetist (Kay Kyser), dies at 86
- Jun 5 Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67
- Jun 6 Barry Sullivan, American actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man), dies at 81
- Jun 6 Jan Slot, Dutch politician (Mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede), WWII resistance fighter and POW, dies at 80
- Jun 6 Johnny Downs, American stage and screen actor, dancer, singer, and TV host, (Our Gang; Swing, Sister, Swing!; The Mad Monster), dies of cancer at 80
- Jun 6 Mark McManus, Scottish actor (Taggart; 2000 Weeks; Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59
- Jun 6 Peter Graves, British actor (Paradise Lagoon, Admirable Crichton), dies at 82
- Jun 6 Willie Humphrey, American jazz clarinetist, dies at 93
- Jun 7 Dennis Potter, British TV dramatist (The Singing Detective, Karaoke, Midnight Movie), dies of cancer at 59
- Jun 7 Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
- Jun 7 Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
- Jun 8 William Marshall, American singer, bandleader and actor (State Fair, Pennsylvanians), dies at 76
- Jun 9 Angela Lakeberg, American siamese twin, dies at 11 months
- Jun 9 Dhirendra Bhramachari [Flying Swami], hindu leader, dies at 70
- Jun 9 Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91
- Jun 9 Lloyd Lindroth, American harpist known as 'The Liberace of the Harp', dies at 63
- Jun 10 Edward Kienholz, American sculptor (Back Seat Dodge '38), dies at 66
- Jun 10 Jimmy Cameron, West Indian cricket all-rounder (5 Tests, 1 x 50, 3 wickets; Jamaica, Canada), dies at 70
- Jun 10 Mary Maxwell Gates, American businesswoman, philanthropist and mother of Bill Gates, dies of breast cancer at 64
- Jun 11 Herbert Anderson, American character actor (Dennis The Menace, Battleground), dies of a stroke at 77
- Jun 11 Jack Hannah, American animator, writer and director, worked for Disney on Donald Duck, dies at 81
- Jun 11 Kitty Muggeridge, British author and translator, dies at 90
- Jun 12 Christopher Collins, American actor (True Identity), voice actor (Cobra Commander-G.I. Joe) and comedian, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 44
- Jun 12 Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi (head of Lubavitcher Jews), dies at 92
- Jun 12 Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, murdered at 35
- Jun 12 Otto Roesch, paleontologist, dies at 93
- Jun 12 Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of O.J. Simpson at 27
- Jun 13 Anne Hopkins Aitken, American Zen Buddhist and co-founder of Diamond Sangha, dies at 83
- Jun 13 Igor Youskevitch, Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies at 82
- Jun 13 James Pollack, US room designer, dies at 55
Henry Mancini(1924-1994)
Jun 14 American Grammy and Academy Award-winning film and televisioncomposer (Breakfast at Tiffany's; Peter Gunn; Pink Panther films), arranger, andconductor, dies ofpancreatic cancer at 70[1]
- Jun 14 Denys Hay, British historian, dies at 78
- Jun 14 Lionel Grigson, British jazz musician, dies at 52
- Jun 14 Mark Alexander Lees, English rowing coach, dies at 38
- Jun 14 Michel Vitold, Russian-French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78
- Jun 15 David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue)
- Jun 15 Manos Hatzidakis, Greek pianist, violinist, accordionist, conductor, and Academy Award-winning composer ("Never On Sunday"), dies at 68
- Jun 15 Nadia Gray [Nadia Kujnir-Herescu], Romanian actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide), dies at 70
Bernard Moitessier(1925-1994)
Jun 16 Frenchsailor, vagabond and author who famously led the 1st non-stop, singlehanded, round the world yacht race before sailing a 2nd lap of the world back to Tahiti, dies ofprostate cancer at 69[1]
- Jun 16 Boris Alexandrov, Russian conductor (Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble), dies at 88
- Jun 16 Eileen Way, British actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin), dies at 82
- Jun 16 Kristen Pfaff, American rock bassist (Hole, 1993-94), dies of heroin overdose at 27
- Jun 16 Terence de Vere White, Irish novelist (An Affair with the Moon), dies at 82
- Jun 17 Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo), dies at 74
- Jun 18 Jack Harkness, British rose grower (R. Harkness & Co. Ltd), dies at 75
- Jun 19 Christopher Clarkson, British test pilot, dies at 92
- Jun 19 Jocelyn Hambro, British financier (Hambros Bank), dies at 75
- Jun 20 Bankole Timothy, Sierra Leonean journalist, dies at 70
- Jun 20 Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78
- Jun 20 Louis Benjamin, British showman, organized Royal Variety performances, dies at 71
- Jun 21 Mark Isfeld, Canadian soldier and combat Engineer, dies from a landmine at 31
- Jun 22 Jack Davies, English screenwriter (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines), dies at 80
- Jun 22 L. V. Prasad, Indian pioneering filmmaker, dies at 87
- Jun 23 Alan Frank, English composer and music publisher, dies at 83
- Jun 23 Piet van Elk, cartoonist, dies at 74
- Jun 23 Stanley Gebler Davies, Irish journalist and infamous drinker, dies of cancer at 50
- Jun 24 Leon MacLaren, British philosopher and founder of the LSE, dies at 83
- Jun 25 Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje), dies at 74
- Jun 26 Bob den Doolaard, Dutch author and journalist (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93
- Jun 26 Ian Board, British barkeeper (Colony Room), dies at 64
- Jun 26 Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and political activist, dies at 65
- Jun 26 Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56
- Jun 26 Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, English organist (Christ College, Oxford), dies at 96
- Jun 27 Jeremy Brooks, English writer (Jampot Smith), dies at 67
- Jun 28 (Fredericka) "Fredi" Washington, American stage and screen actress (Black & Tan), writer, and civil rights activist, dies at 90
- Jun 28 William A. Henry III, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (Boston Globe), arts critic (Time Magazine), and author, dies of a heart attack at 44
- Jun 29 Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor, dies at 85
- Jun 29 Ray Crane, English trumpeter, dies at 63
- Jun 30 Nicholas Warner, English test Pilot for Airbus, dies in Airbus Industrie A330-321 test flight crash at 51
