June 1979 calendar

June 1979
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in June 1979.
The US president was Jimmy Carter (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on June 1979: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of June 1979?

Events

01 Jun 1979 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 4 games to 1
02 Jun 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198.
03 Jun 1979 Madwoman of Central Park West opens on Broadway
04 Jun 1979 South-African President Vorster resigns due to scandal
05 Jun 1979 Seychelles adopts constitution
06 Jun 1979 Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
07 Jun 1979 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
08 Jun 1979 Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
09 Jun 1979 111th Belmont: Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6
10 Jun 1979 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
11 Jun 1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months
12 Jun 1979 Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association in Boston
13 Jun 1979 Madwoman of Central Park West opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 performances
14 Jun 1979 New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
15 Jun 1979 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds
16 Jun 1979 Logical Song by Supertramp peaks at #6
17 Jun 1979 Sarava closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
18 Jun 1979 US President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty
19 Jun 1979 In New York 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr
20 Jun 1979 Bill Stewart, ABC television news correspondant, and his interpreter Juan Espinosa are executed by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier while attempting to film war destruction in Nicaragua. The murders are caught on tape, and the footage is later shown on news broadcasts.
21 Jun 1979 Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
22 Jun 1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
23 Jun 1979 Rock group The Knack releases "My Sharona".
24 Jun 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
25 Jun 1979 Got Tu Go Disco opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances
26 Jun 1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final
27 Jun 1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
28 Jun 1979 OPEC raises oil prices 24%
29 Jun 1979 Moonraker premieres in US
30 Jun 1979 Got To Go Disco closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances
03 Jun 1979 A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.