June 1968 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1968 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2
• 02 Jun 1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
• 03 Jun 1968 Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins
• 04 Jun 1968 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings.
• 05 Jun 1968 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day
• 06 Jun 1968 WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 07 Jun 1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassination.
• 08 Jun 1968 1st reduced-gravity golf game is played on the Moon
• 09 Jun 1968 38th French Womens Tennis: Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones
• 10 Jun 1968 Danny Thomas Hour, last airs on NBC-TV
• 14 Jun 1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
• 15 Jun 1968 How Now, Dow Jones closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 220 performances
• 16 Jun 1968 68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill Country Club - New York
• 17 Jun 1968 Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms
• 18 Jun 1968 US Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing.
• 20 Jun 1968 Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 metres in under 10 seconds.
• 21 Jun 1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
• 22 Jun 1968 Here Come Da Judge by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
• 23 Jun 1968 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
• 24 Jun 1968 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
• 25 Jun 1968 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his first major league game (San Francisco Giants).
• 26 Jun 1968 Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions
• 27 Jun 1968 Ludvik Vaculik publishes Manifest of 2000 words in Prague
• 28 Jun 1968 Last day of redeeming US silver certificates for silver, in any form.
• 30 Jun 1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives Order of October Revolution

Famous Birthday

• Yasmine Bleeth

  American actress, pleaded guilty 11/30/2001 in Detroit to a charge of cocaine possession.

• Jean-Pierre Danel
• Paolo Maldini

  Italian soccer/football player, he played for Milan from 1985 to 2009, and with the Italian national teams from 1986 to 2002.

• Phil Anselmo

  American singer (Pantera).

• Patrice Alègre
• Tonya Kinzinger
• Cali (singer)
• Louis Laforge

  French journalist who presented the television shows, "Soir 3 week-end" (1998-1999), "Soir 3" with Audrey Pulvar (September 2004 to July...

• Bill Burr

  American comedian.

• Véronika Loubry
• Robert Rodríguez
• New London (Connecticut)
• Scott Wolf

  American actor, known for his roles in the television series Party of Five as Bailey Salinger, Jake Hartman in Everwood and Chad Decker in...

• Jason Donovan

  Australian actor, musician and noted family, the son of Terence and Sue Donovan.

• Pascale Bussières
• Dominique Boeuf
• Cathy Chedal
• Nene Otsuka

  Japanese actress.

• Eric Murdock

  NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Miami Heat).

• Samia Ghali
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Famous Deaths

• Salvatore Quasimodo

  Italian writer, a poet and translator who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1959.

• Wes Montgomery

  American guitarist and songwriter (Montgomery Brothers) (d. 1968).

• Tony Hancock

  Actor / writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43.

• Tony Hancock

  Actor / writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43.

• Dan Duryea

  White Plains, New York -- Actor (Pride of the Yankees).

• Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Fidelio Friedrich Finke

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Karl-Birger Blomdahl

  Swedish opera Composer (Aniara), dies at 51.

• James Joseph Sweeney

  American Catholic prelate (Born 1898).

• Robert F Kennedy (Senator-Democrat-New York)

  dies of gunshot wounds at age 42 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

• Andre Laurendeau

  French Canadian writer, journalist and politician (Born 1912).

• Dorothy Gish [de Guiche]

  Actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70.

• Jose Nasazzi

  Uruguayan footballer (Born 1901).

• Tony Hancock

  British actor and comedian.

• Helen Keller

  American blind and deaf educator, author and lecturer.

• Bernard Cronin

  Australian author and journalist (Born 1884).

• Sam Crawford

  American baseball player coach and umpire (d. 1968).

• John Gough

  Actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73.

• Andre Mathieu

  Quebec pianist and composer (Born 1929).

• Kitty Kelly

  Actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
2. Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You
3. Hugo Montenegro - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
4. Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
5. Richard Harris - MacArthur Park

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Union Gap - Young Girl
2. The Equals - Baby Come Back
3. The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
4. OC Smith - Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
5. Bobby Goldsboro - Honey