Today in History for June 1981

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 75 of 75

2nd - Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
3rd - Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
4th - 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus
5th - Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777)
5th - Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays (AIDS)
5th - George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England"
5th - TODAY/PC runs for 1st time
6th - 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
6th - 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64)
6th - Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
6th - A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
7th - 35th Tony Awards: Amadeus & 42nd Street win
7th - 51st French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats I. Lendl (61 46 62 36 61)
7th - Israeli F-15/F-16 destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
7th - Sandra Post wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Classic
8th - 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
8th - Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
10th - IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
10th - Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits
264th Pope John Paul II 10th - Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence
10th - Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co
11th - Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
11th - Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
11th - Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude Golbaf earthquake at Iran, killing at least 2,000.
12th - "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres
12th - 3rd baseball strike starts
12th - Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
12th - Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title
12th - Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election
13th - 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
13th - Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
13th - Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
14th - 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
14th - No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
Queen Elizabeth II 17th - Battle between Moslems & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
18th - Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
18th - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court)
18th - Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge
18th - Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
18th - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
19th - Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified
19th - European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit
19th - Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
19th - India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
20th - Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
20th - Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime
20th - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
21st - 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
21st - 81st US Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion GC in Ardmore Pa
21st - Don Fagan & Walter Becker quit Steely Dan
21st - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf
21st - Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
21st - Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
22nd - 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
22nd - Iran president Bani Sadr deposed
Tennis Great John McEnroe 22nd - John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon
22nd - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
23rd - "This Was Burlesque" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 28 performances
23rd - 33 inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2
23rd - Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
23rd - French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
23rd - NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
23rd - Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with bases-loaded single in bottom of 33rd inning, Pawtucket beats Rochester 3-2
25th - Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
25th - Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
26th - "For Your Eyes Only" premieres in US
27th - "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
27th - Cambodia adopts its constitution
27th - Pamela Jenks, 21, crowned 14th Miss Black America
28th - "Piaf" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 165 performances
28th - 74 government officials die in attack in Iran
28th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
29th - Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed
29th - Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR
30th - China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 63 of 63

1st - Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
1st - Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
2nd - Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
2nd - Nikolay Davydenko, Russian professional tennis pl
2nd - Tucker Rountree, American guitarist and composer.
4th - Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer
4th - T. J. Miller, American actor and comedian
5th - Jade Goody, British television personality
5th - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
6th - Johnny Pacar, American film actor
7th - Tyler Johnson, baseball player
7th - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
7th - Stephen Bywater, British goalkeeper
7th - Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
7th - Larisa Oleynik, American actress
7th - Amrita Rao, Indian model and actress
8th - Matteo Meneghello, Italian racing driver
8th - Alex Band, American singer (The Calling)
8th - Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
Tennis Player Anna Kournikova (7th) 8th - Sara Watkins, American fiddle player
8th - Jess Weixler, American actress
9th - Natalie Portman [Natalie Hershlag], Jerusalem, Israeli/American actress (Professional, Everyone Says I Love You)
9th - Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
9th - Anoushka Shankar, Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
10th - Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer
10th - Hoku, American singer and actress
10th - Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
10th - Jonathan Bennett, actor (Mean Girls)
11th - Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
12th - Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel
13th - Chris Evans, American actor
13th - David Madden, 4th-ranked Jeopardy! champion of all-time
14th - Lonneke Engel, Dutch model
14th - Chauncey Leopardi, American actor
Actress Natalie Portman (9th) 15th - Cristin Duren, Miss Florida Teen USA (Miss Photogenic-1997)
15th - William Dean Martin, American musician (Good Charlotte)
15th - Jeremy Reed, American baseball player
15th - Jordi Vilasuso, American actor
16th - Miguel Villalta, Peruvian Footballer
16th - Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
16th - Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
16th - Ben Kweller, American singer/songwriter
17th - Kyle Boller, American football quarterback
17th - Amrita Rao, Bollywood actress
17th - Shane Watson, Australian cricket all-rounder
18th - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
18th - Ella (Jiahua) Chen, member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
20th - Ardian Gashi, Albanian-Norwegian footballer
21st - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
21st - Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
22nd - Lisa Moro, Victoria Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
22nd - Chris Urbanowicz, guitarist of British rock band Editors
25th - Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
25th - Sheridan Smith, British actress
25th - Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
28th - Michael Crafter, Australian musician
29th - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
29th - Joe Johnson, American basketball player
30th - Allison Schroeder, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA (1997)
30th - Can Artam, Turkish racing driver
30th - Matt Kirk, Canadian football Player
30th - Karolina Sadalska, Polish kayaker
30th - Ben Utecht, American football Player

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 23 of 23

1st - Carl Vinson, (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64), dies at 97
1st - Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
3rd - Carleton Coon, anthropology prof (What in the World), dies at 76
3rd - Eric Dalton, cricketer (698 runs for South Africa at 31 72), dies
5th - Philo McCullough, actor (Branded, Ridin' Thru), dies
9th - Allen Ludden, game show host (Password), dies at 63
9th - Russell Hayden, actor (Hidden Gold, Apache Chief, Justice), dies
10th - Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68
11th - Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73
16th - Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered
16th - John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86
16th - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
17th - Richard O'Connor, British general (b. 1889)
17th - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (b. 1889)
17th - Yitzhak Zuckerman [Itzhak Zuckerman], Jewish resistance hero in World War II and one of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 65
21st - Gunnar Ek, composer, dies on 81st birthday
22nd - Lola Lane, actress (Zanzibar, Mystery Ship, Big Fight), dies
23rd - Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela), dies at 79
26th - Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies
28th - Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed
28th - Peter Paul Kreuder, German composer, dies at 75
28th - Terry Fox, Canadian one-legged marathoner, dies of cancer at 22
29th - Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered