June 1972 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
• 02 Jun 1972 Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Holger Meins and some other members of Red Army Faction are arrested in Frankfurt am Main after a shootout.
• 03 Jun 1972 Hot Rod Lincoln, by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
• 04 Jun 1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
• 05 Jun 1972 If You Had Wings opens
• 06 Jun 1972 David Bowie releases Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust
• 07 Jun 1972 Grease opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
• 08 Jun 1972 Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2
• 09 Jun 1972 1st all-nite grad parties
• 10 Jun 1972 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28
• 11 Jun 1972 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
• 12 Jun 1972 George P. Shultz begins term as 60th Treasury Secretary of the US.
• 14 Jun 1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
• 15 Jun 1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
• 16 Jun 1972 Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
• 17 Jun 1972 Long Haired Lover From Liverpool by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
• 18 Jun 1972 72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach, California
• 19 Jun 1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
• 22 Jun 1972 Man of La Mancha opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances
• 23 Jun 1972 Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
• 24 Jun 1972 Troglodyte (Cave Man) by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
• 25 Jun 1972 Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
• 26 Jun 1972 IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland
• 28 Jun 1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam.
• 29 Jun 1972 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual
• 30 Jun 1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985

Famous Birthday

• Julie Gayet

  French actress, she began her career in "Three colours: Blue".

• Zinedine Zidane

  French footballer who is widely regarded as one of the best players of all time, now retired.

• Jean Dujardin

  French actor and comedian, he received the Best Actor award at the 2011 film Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of George Valentin in...

• Wentworth Miller

  American actor.

• Garou (singer)
• Selma Blair

  American actress.

• Emanuele Filiberto Prince of Venice and Piedmont
• Karl Urban

  New Zealand actor.

• Indianapolis (Indiana)
• Poppy Montgomery
• Robin Tunney

  American actress.

• Wes Scantlin
• Cristina Scabbia

  Italian singer (Lacuna Coil).

• Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
• Chloë des Lysses
• Molly Parker
• Sophie Lawrence

  British actress, seen in the TV soap "Eastenders" in 1988-1991, when she left the series to pursue an acting career.

• Alessandro Nivola

  American actor and producer, who has starred in feature films such as American Hustle and Face/Off.

• Nadège Beausson-Diagne
• Wayne Brady

  American actor and comedian.

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Famous Deaths

• Jimmy Rushing

  American singer and bandleader (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) (d. 1972).

• Franz Philipp

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Horst Salomon

  Writer.

• David Lichine [Lichtenstein]

  Russian / US choreographer, dies at 61.

• Clyde L Mcphatter

  US singer (Drifters-Without Love), dies at 39.

• Georg von Bekesy

  Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1899).

• Saul David Alinsky

  radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at age 63.

• Dundar Taser

  Turkish nationalist (Born 1925).

• Seth Bingham

  American organist and composer (d. 1972).

• Stephanie von Hohenlohe

  Austrian-born German World War II spy (Born 1891).

• Jan Matulka

  Czech-American painter and illustrator (d. 1972).

• Howard Johnson

  American businessman, originator of restaurant chain (Born 1897).

• Elton Britt

  country singer (Saturday Night Jamboree), dies at age 54.

• Godfried Devreese

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Edmund Wilson

  American critic and essayist recognized as one of the leading literary journalists of his time.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There
2. Sammy Davis Jr. - The Candy Man
3. Neil Diamond - Song Sung Blue
4. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl
5. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Don McLean - Vincent
2. Donny Osmond - Puppy Love
3. T Rex - Metal Guru
4. Gary Glitter - Rock And Roll Parts 1 And 2
5. Slade - Take Me Bak 'Ome