June 1958
Charles de Gaulle
became the premier of France… A baseball game between Kansas City and
Boston was delayed because of a tornado… Those that were born this month
and year include
Rogers Nelson,
better known as the rocker/actor
Prince;
Scott
Valentine,
an actor who played Nick in Family Ties; multi-talented performer,
Keenan Ivory
Wayans;
Eric Heiden,
the Wisconsin speed skater who won five gold medals in the 1980
Olympics; Baseball great
Wade Boggs.
June 1968
Presidential candidate, Robert Kennedy, was shot, and died the
next day; and Sirhan Sirhan was indicted for his assassination…
US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigned… James
Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was
captured after escaping from prison… This month and year was the final
deadline for a person to redeem a silver certificate dollar currency
bill for silver bullion… The island of Iwo Jima was returned to
Japan by the United States… Daniel Ellsberg was indicted by a
grand jury for leaking information known as The Pentagon Papers… In
music, the group Gary Puckett and the Union Gap released “Lady
Willpower;” The Rolling Stones released “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and
Simon & Garfunkel released “Mrs. Robinson,” which went to #1 on
the Billboard Chart… In Beatles news, John Lennon and
Yoko Ono exhibit their first official joint
venture at the Arts Lab in London. Soon after, they plant acorns outside
Coventry Cathedral as a conceptual “living arts sculpture”… In
sports, Don Drysdale, of the Los Angeles Dodgers, pitched a
record 58 consecutive scoreless innings… Bobby Bonds,
as a San Francisco Giant, hit a grand slam in his first major league
game… In golf, Lee Trevino was the first to play all four rounds
of the US Open under par… Those born include Jason Donovan, a
rocker/actor; and Patrick Stuart in Hollywood, California, an
actor in the series, All My Children… Those that departed include
Helen Keller, at 87.
June 1978
The Gutenberg Bible, one of 21 existing, sold for $2.4 million in
London… David Berkowitz (known as the Son of Sam) was sentenced
in New York to 25 years to life… In professional boxing, Heavyweight
Larry Holmes won a decision over Ken Norton for the WBC
crown… Jordan’s King Hussein married a 26-year-old American… In
baseball, Cincinnati Reds’ Tom Seaver pitched a no-hitter against
the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0… Willie McCovey, of the San
Francisco Giants, became the twelfth player to hit 500 home runs; The
Neo-Nazis called off plans to march in the Jewish community of
Skokie, Illinois… UNICEF chose the rock group Kansas as
ambassadors of goodwill… The US Supreme Court ordered California medical
school to admit Allan Bakke.
June 1988
Microsoft
released MS DOS 4.0… In Brooklyn, a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
is dedicated for his role in the Honeymooners… Former Beatle
George Harrison released “This Is Love”… At Baltimore’s Memorial
Stadium the longest baseball game was played, lasting five hours,
46 minutes, with the Orioles beating the Yankees 7-6 in 14 innings…
Galina Chistyakova of the USSR set a women’s long jump record of 24
feet eight inches… The New York Yankees Rick Rhoden became the
first American League pitcher to DH (be the designated hitter)… This
year, the Boston Red Sox, who were 10 games back in the
standings, win the American League East title; Cleveland Indians pitcher
Doug Jones set a record of 14 consecutive saves… Reports revealed
that boxing champion Mike Tyson beat his wife Robin Givens…
In a heavyweight bout in Atlantic City, Tyson KOs Michael Spinks
in 91 seconds, winning him $67 million… New York Yankees manager
Billy Martin’s fifth term ended, with Lou Pinella named as
manager… Singer Bruce Springsteen separated from his wife,
Juliette Phillips… and on the show, The Price is Right, model
Janice Pennington was knocked out by a TV camera… Among those that
departed are Louis L'Amour, western writer, at 80 of cancer; and
Dennis Day, singer on the Jack Benny Show, of Lou Gehrig’s
disease at 71.
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www.aboutfamouspeople.com
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