Historical Events for June 1981
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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
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
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, S 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
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 govt 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
