June 1997 calendar

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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in June 1997.
The US president was Bill Clinton (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Tony Blair (Labour), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on June 1997: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of June 1997?

Events

01 Jun 1997 1st New York Women Film Festival opens
02 Jun 1997 Liberals beat Conservatives in France
06 Jun 1997 In Lacey Township, New Jersey, high school senior Melissa Drexler kills her newborn baby in a toilet.
07 Jun 1997 129th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Touch Gold wins in 2:28.8
08 Jun 1997 Young Man From Atlanta closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 85 performances
09 Jun 1997 Detroit Tigers bat out of order against Oakland Athletics in 1st inning
10 Jun 1997 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
11 Jun 1997 In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
12 Jun 1997 1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
13 Jun 1997 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
15 Jun 1997 Little Foxes, closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 56 performances
16 Jun 1997 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and LeAnn Rimes
17 Jun 1997 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 and Minneapolis-St Paul and Columbus, Ohio in 2000
19 Jun 1997 Forever Tango!, opens at Walter Kerr Theater, New York City
20 Jun 1997 Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
21 Jun 1997 Defending the Caveman, closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 performances
22 Jun 1997 Nationwide Senior Golf Championship
23 Jun 1997 Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts
24 Jun 1997 4-1, Mark McGwire his a 538 foot HR
25 Jun 1997 Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby
26 Jun 1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations
27 Jun 1997 Walt Disney Feature Animation's thirty-fifth animated feature Hercules is released.
28 Jun 1997 Master Class, closes at Golden Theater NYC after 601 performances
29 Jun 1997 American Daughter closes at Cort Theater NYC after 88 performances
30 Jun 1997 Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
02 Jun 1997 In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.