Today in History for June 1966

Months in 1966: January February March April May July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 66 of 66

1st - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1st - George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1st - Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1st - Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
2nd - US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
3rd - European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
3rd - Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
4th - "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
4th - -10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
4th - 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
5th - Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
5th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational
6th - Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
6th - Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
6th - Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
6th - NFL & AFL announce their merger
6th - Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
7th - NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
8th - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
Musician Ravi Shankar 8th - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
9th - 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
10th - Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
10th - Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes
10th - Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0
10th - Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
10th - Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
11th - "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
11th - "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
11th - "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs
11th - "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
11th - "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs
11th - "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK
11th - French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
11th - Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (SF)
12th - Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
12th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
13th - Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
14th - Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
14th - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
16th - "Rowan & Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV
16th - 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
17th - Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers
19th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
20th - 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF
20th - Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
21st - Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
22nd - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens
24th - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
24th - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
25th - Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
25th - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
25th - Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
26th - "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 perfs
26th - Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
26th - Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
27th - 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV
27th - 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2
28th - Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title
29th - In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time
29th - KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
29th - US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
30th - Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
30th - Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
30th - Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA
30th - Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI Trent Bridge, wicketless
30th - Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 73 of 73

1st - Greg Schiano, American football coach
2nd - Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
3rd - Wasim Akram, cricketer (brilliant Pakistani lefty fast bowler)
4th - Nick Kypreos, Toronto, NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
4th - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
4th - Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician
5th - Bill Spiers, Orangeburg SC, infielder (Houston Astros)
5th - Tina Barrett, Balt, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State)
6th - Angela Cavagna, Genoa Italy, singer
6th - Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
6th - Sean Yseult, American musician (White Zombie)
7th - Dan Payne, CFL tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
7th - Heathcliff Slocumb, Jamaica NY, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
7th - Stephane Richer, Ripon, NHL right wing (NJ Devils)
8th - Brian Williams, NFL center (NY Giants)
8th - Doris Pearson, Essex, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
8th - Julianna Margulies, Spring Valley NY, actress (Carol Hathaway-ER)
9th - Anthony Martino, CFL punter (Calgary Stampeders)
10th - Doug McKeon, NJ, actor (Big Shamus Little Shamus, Centennial)
10th - David Platt, English footballer
11th - Scott Mellanby, Montreal, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
11th - Tiffany Cohen, Culver City California, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1984)
13th - Thyme Lewis, SF California, actor (Jonah-Days of our Lives)
13th - Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
13th - Naoki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
14th - Ricky Siglar, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs, New Orleans Saints)
14th - Rod Stephens, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
14th - Traylor Howard, Orlando Fla, actress (Joy Byrnes-Boston Common)
15th - Idalis DeLeon, American actress/singer
16th - Jan Zelezny, Czech, javelin thrower (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
16th - [Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 96)
16th - Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
17th - Clare Look-Jaeger, Milwaukee Wisconsin, high jumper
17th - Fred Barnett, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
18th - Bob Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Olympics-96)
18th - Doug Bodger, Chemainus BC, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, San Jose)
18th - Kurt Browning, Alberta, figure skater (Olympic-5-1994)
18th - Luke Jensen, Grayling Mich, tennis star (1993 French Open doubles)
18th - Robert Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Oly-1996)
18th - Sandy Alomar, Salinas Puerto Rico, catcher (Cleveland Indians)
19th - Joichi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur
21st - David Williams, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers, NY Jets)
21st - Nan Woods, actress (1 More Saturday Night)
21st - Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
21st - Mancow Muller, American radio personality
22nd - Camille Benjamin, Cleveland Ohio, tennis star
22nd - Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, English baron/multi-millionaire
22nd - Meyrick Pringle, cricket pace bowler (South African)
22nd - Paul Randolph, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
23rd - Barbara Jordan, US softball outfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
23rd - Chantal Daucourt, Bienne Switz, mountain cyclist (world-bronze-95)
23rd - Vladislav Neiman, Israel, Men's flyweight boxer (Oly-1996)
23rd - Chico DeBarge, American musician (DeBarge)
23rd - Richie Ren, Taiwanese musician
24th - John Randle, Chicoutimi Que, golfer (1992 Canadian Tour Fall-3rd)
24th - Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
25th - Dikembe Mutombo, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets)
26th - Bryan Webb, horse trainer
26th - Kirk McLean, Toronto, NHL goalie (Vancouver Canucks)
26th - Paul Mokha, Erie Pa, rower (Olympics-1996)
27th - Jason Patric, NYC, actor (Lost Boys, Solar Babies)
27th - Jeff Conine, Tacoma Washington, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
27th - Mercedes Paz, Tucum Argentina, tennis star (1990 Strasbourg)
27th - Rob Harbison, Fallston MD, 3x40 rifle (Olympics-6th-1996)
27th - J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
28th - Andrew Lang, NBA center (Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks)
28th - John Cusack, Chicago, actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead)
28th - Mary Stuart Masterson, Houston Tx, actress (Some Kind of Wonderful)
28th - Mike Bellamy, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
29th - John Part, Canadian darts player
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson (30th) 30th - "Iron" Mike Tyson, NY, youngest heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
30th - Louie Aguiar, NFL punter (KC Chiefs)
30th - Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

15th - English writer of blockbusters, Jackie Collins weds 2nd husband Oscar Lerman

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 17 of 17

1st - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
3rd - Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65
5th - Natacha Rambova, costume designer, dies at 69
6th - Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash
7th - Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor, dies at 78
8th - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
11th - Ethel Clayton, actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82
11th - Wallace Ford, actor (Deputy), dies of heart attack at 68
12th - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74
12th - Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
19th - Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79
19th - Marjan Kozina, composer, dies at 59
22nd - Roger Blunt, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 330 runs, 12 wickets), dies
27th - Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies
29th - Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer, dies at 82
29th - Isabel Dawn, writer, dies
29th - Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea), dies at 63