Today in History for June 1984

Months in 1984: January February March April May July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 69 of 69

1st - Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
1st - KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1st - Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1st - Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
2nd - "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
2nd - Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
2nd - Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
3rd - "Wiz" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 13 performances
3rd - 30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
3rd - 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win
4th - 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers
4th - Arnold Palmer fails to make US Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs
4th - Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
4th - DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal
4th - NY Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1
5th - Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" becomes #1
5th - Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple)
6th - 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
8th - Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
9th - "Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres
9th - 116th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova 9th - 54th French Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats C Evert (63 61)
9th - Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times"
9th - Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
9th - Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts
9th - NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509
9th - Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
9th - Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater
10th - 38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
10th - 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75)
10th - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic
10th - US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
10th - Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)
11th - Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
11th - Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
14th - Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
Tennis Great John McEnroe 15th - "Thicke Of The Night," TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
15th - Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran
15th - Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem
16th - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
16th - Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
17th - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
17th - John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada
18th - 84th US Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY
19th - "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair
19th - 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
20th - Oakland A's Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam & 14th lifetime
20th - Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
22nd - Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
22nd - Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins
22nd - Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
22nd - Joseph Luns resigns as secretary-general of NATO
24th - Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
24th - Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
25th - Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
25th - STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem
26th - 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand 26th - Barbra Streisand records "Here We Are at Last"
27th - Emmy 11th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 5th time
27th - Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill"
27th - France wins soccer's European Cup
27th - Late Night's 1st Tower Drop
27th - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
29th - Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990
29th - Pete Rose plays in record 3,309th game, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski
29th - USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
30th - Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
30th - Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
30th - Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 49 of 49

1st - Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, first Mongolian athlete win gold medal from Olympics
1st - Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
4th - Ian White, Canadian hockey player
4th - Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer and actress
4th - Jenaveve Jolie, Mexican-American pornographic actress
5th - Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress
6th - Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballplayer
6th - Shannon Stewart, American model
8th - Andrea Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
8th - Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
9th - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
9th - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
9th - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
9th - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
10th - Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian judoka
11th - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
11th - Andy Lee, Irish Boxer
13th - Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
14th - Siobhán Donaghy, British singer (ex-Sugababes)
14th - Lorenzo Booker, American football player
15th - Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
16th - Steven Whittaker, Scottish Footballer
16th - Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player
17th - John Gallagher Jr. American stage actor
18th - Mateus, Angolan footballer
18th - Janne Happonen, Finnish skijumper
19th - Emil Coleman, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party)
19th - Paul Dano, American actor
21st - Franck Perera, French racing driver
21st - Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress
22nd - Jerome Taylor, West Indies international cricketer
22nd - Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
23rd - Duffy, Welsh Singer
24th - J.J. Redick, American basketball player
25th - Indigo, American actress
26th - Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
26th - Raymond Felton, American basketball player
26th - Deron Williams, American basketball player
26th - Jose Juan Barea, American basketball player
27th - Rocio Guirao Diaz, Argentinian Model
27th - Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
27th - Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
27th - Khloe Kardashian, American reality television star
27th - Julie Ordon, Swiss model
29th - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
29th - Christopher Egan, Australian actor
29th - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
30th - Fantasia Barrino, American singer
30th - Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

26th - Tiny Tim marries Miss Jan (23)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 25 of 25

2nd - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
5th - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
6th - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72
6th - Bill Voce, cricketer (key player of the Bodyline series), dies
7th - George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at 81
8th - Gordon Jacob, composer, dies at 88
11th - Enrico Berlinguer, secr-general (CP) Italy, dies
13th - Marinus de Jong, Dutch composer, dies at 92
15th - Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82
15th - Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies of heart failure at 78
16th - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
17th - Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51
17th - Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
18th - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host
19th - Lee Krasner Pollock, US painter, dies at 75
19th - Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer, dies at 88
20th - Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99
20th - Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30
22nd - Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75
24th - William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94
24th - Clarence Campbell, Canadian NHL president (b. 1905)
25th - Michel Foucault, philosoph (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDs at 57
26th - Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69
26th - George H Gallup, pollster (Gallup Poll), dies at 82
30th - Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79