June 1977 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
• 02 Jun 1977 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City.
• 03 Jun 1977 Belgium government of Tindemans forms
• 04 Jun 1977 Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale
• 05 Jun 1977 1st personal computer, Apple II, goes on sale
• 06 Jun 1977 Washington Post reports US has developed neutron bomb
• 07 Jun 1977 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1
• 08 Jun 1977 Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game
• 09 Jun 1977 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist
• 10 Jun 1977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
• 11 Jun 1977 Dance & Shake Your Tambourine by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
• 12 Jun 1977 Pippin closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances
• 13 Jun 1977 Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• 15 Jun 1977 New York Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry
• 16 Jun 1977 Beatlemania opens on Broadway
• 18 Jun 1977 Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook, beaten and robbed by London pub
• 19 Jun 1977 77th US Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa
• 20 Jun 1977 Menahem Begin forms Israeli government
• 21 Jun 1977 Former White House chief of staff Harry R Haldeman enters prison.
• 22 Jun 1977 Former Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison.
• 24 Jun 1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
• 25 Jun 1977 LBJ denies report he had a cancer during his presidency
• 26 Jun 1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
• 27 Jun 1977 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France
• 28 Jun 1977 US Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers.
• 29 Jun 1977 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
• 30 Jun 1977 Marvel Comics publish Kiss book tributing rock group Kiss

Famous Birthday

• Kanye West

  American recording artist, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and founder of the record label GOOD Music and creative content...

• Zachary Quinto

  American actor.

• Sarah Wayne Callies

  American actress.

• Jason Mraz

  American singer and songwriter.

• Benjamin Millepied

  Was raised in Dakar, Senegal.

• Raúl González
• Fabrice Eboué
• Antoine Arnault
• Frédéric Weis

  French professional basketball player.

• Ryan Dunn

  American actor.

• Layla El

  Wrestler.

• Nadine Krüger
• Bradley Stryker
• Fernanda Lima
• Lindsay Hollister
• Romain Mesnil

  French athlete, pole vaulter.

• Sullivan Stapleton
• Zuleikha Robinson

  English actress and singer.

• Leigh Whannell
• Danielle Harris

  Movie Actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Wernher von Braun

  Rocket Scientist (V1 / V2), dies at 65 of smoking.

• Roberto Rossellini

  Italian acclaimed film director, producer and scenarist, the leading representative of the post WW II wave of realism.

• Stephen Boyd

  Irish-born actor, a handsome though rather wooden leading man best known for his roles in several historical epics, including "The Fall of...

• Jacqueline Audry

  French director who began as a script girl in 1933 before becoming an assistant director.

• Abner Biberman

  American screenplay writer and minor actor in films before finding his niche as a TV director.

• Oskar Morgenstern

  German / US economist, dies at 75.

• Petko Staynov

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Lou Reizner

  Rock vocalist / producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43.

• Forrest Lewis

  Actor (Great Gildersleeve, Ichabod & Me), dies at 77.

• Archibald Vivian Hill

  English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1886).

• Lady Olave Baden-Powell

  English founder of the Girl Guide (Born 1889).

• Albert Bittlmayer

  German footballer (Born 1952).

• Andre-Gilles Fortin

  Canadian politician (Born 1943).

• Peter Laughner

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu) (d. 1977).

• Magda Lupescu

  Romanian wife of Carol II of Romania (d. 1977).

• Ali Shariati

  Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977).

• Alan Reed

  NYC, New York -- Actor (Mr Adams & Eve) / voice (Fred Flintstone).

• Sophie Stewart

  Actress (As You Like It), dies at 69.

• Henri D Gagnebin

  Swiss Organist / composer, dies at 91.

• Matthew Garber

  British child actor (Mary Poppins) (Born 1956).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
2. KC and the Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
3. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
4. Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (Part 1)
5. Bill Conti - Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Kenny Rogers - Lucille
2. Hot Chocolate - So You Win Again
3. Rod Stewart - I Don't Want To Talk About It / First Cut Is The Deepest
4. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man
5. The Jacksons - Show You The Way To Go