Today in History for June 1986

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 70 of 70

1st - 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley
1st - 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
2nd - NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
2nd - Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
3rd - Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
4th - Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
5th - SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time
6th - Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
6th - Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself
7th - 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8
7th - 56th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 63 63)
7th - Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1
7th - Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1
8th - "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances
8th - 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2
8th - 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64)
8th - Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
8th - Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
8th - Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
Pop Star Madonna 9th - 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
9th - Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0
9th - Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points
9th - Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
10th - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL
11th - "Blacke's Magic," last airs on NBC-TV
11th - Amnesty International megaconcert
12th - P W Botha declares South African national emergency
13th - Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
13th - Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
15th - 86th US Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills GC NY
15th - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
15th - Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
15th - Raymond Floyd wins US Open golf tournament
16th - 1 day general strike in South Africa
17th - Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
18th - De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
18th - Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games
18th - Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
18th - Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy
19th - Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup
20th - Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
20th - Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
21st - "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
21st - "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
21st - Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with KC Royals
21st - Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
21st - Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
22nd - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
22nd - Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting
22nd - Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
23rd - Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)
23rd - Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
24th - Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
24th - US Senate approves "tax reform"
25th - Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
25th - Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release
26th - South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
27th - Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing only a body stocking
27th - In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
27th - Robby Thompson (SF) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
27th - SF Giant Robby Thompson is caught stealing record 4 times
27th - US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack
27th - World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
28th - Irish population condemns divorce
28th - Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
29th - Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany)
29th - Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
29th - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
29th - Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues
30th - Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 40 of 40

1st - Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
3rd - Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
3rd - Rafael Nadal, Manacor, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spanish tennis player
3rd - Tomas Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
3rd - Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
3rd - Al Horford, American basketball player
3rd - Brenden Richard Jefferson, African-American actor
4th - Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
8th - Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player
9th - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
9th - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
11th - Brighton Hertford, actress (BJ Jones-General Hospital)
11th - Shia LaBeouf, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Disturbia, Transformers)
13th - Ashley Fuller Olsen, twin actress (Michelle-Full House)
13th - Mary Kate Olsen, twin actress (Michelle-Full House)
13th - Kat Dennings, American actress
14th - Jonathan Clare, English cricketer
16th - Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
16th - Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi Cricketer
Twin Actress Mary Kate Olsen (13th) 16th - Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
16th - Robert Rothbart, Bosnian-Israeli Basketball Player
16th - Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
18th - Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
19th - Marvin Williams, American basketball player
22nd - Ramin Ott, American Samoan football player
24th - Kaitlin Cullum, LA California, actress (Libby Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
24th - Stuart Broad, English cricketer
24th - Phil Hughes, American baseball player
24th - Solange Knowles, American singer
25th - Charlie Davies, American soccer player
25th - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
26th - Drake Bell, American actor, musician
26th - Casey Desmond, American singer
27th - LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
27th - Drake Bell, musician/ songwriter / American actor
28th - Kellie Pickler, American singer
28th - Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
29th - Austin Drage, English singer
29th - Iya Villania, Filipina actress
30th - Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

4th - Legendary singer Bob Dylan (45) weds his backup singer Carolyn Dennis (32)
7th - Air Supply guitarist Graham Russell weds Jodi Varble
21st - The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof (34) weds broadcaster and writer Paula Yates (27) in Las Vegas

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 35 of 35

1st - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
2nd - Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Elegie), dies at 80
2nd - Aurel Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
3rd - Anna Neagle, actress (Courtney Affair)/dancer, dies at 81
3rd - Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer, dies at 89
3rd - Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42
6th - Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
10th - Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
11th - Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80
11th - Chesley Bonestell, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (b. 1888)
12th - Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, dies at 76
12th - Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66
13th - Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing), dies at 77
14th - Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67
14th - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86
14th - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81
15th - K K Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter
16th - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
17th - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75
Writer Jorge Luis Borges (14th) 17th - Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78
18th - Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
19th - Coluche, [Michel Colucci], French comic, dies at 41
19th - Len Bias, 1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
19th - Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59
20th - Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
21st - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
23rd - Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies
25th - Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63
26th - Laurie Fishlock, cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies
27th - Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning
27th - Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies
27th - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
29th - Ida Mae McKenzie, entertainer, dies
29th - John P East, (Sen-R-NC), dies at 55
29th - Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World), dies at 47