June 1978 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
• 03 Jun 1978 Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year
• 04 Jun 1978 Working closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 25 performances
• 06 Jun 1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent.
• 07 Jun 1978 32nd NBA Championship: Washington Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3
• 08 Jun 1978 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification
• 09 Jun 1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
• 10 Jun 1978 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8
• 11 Jun 1978 Grease starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John opens
• 12 Jun 1978 US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
• 13 Jun 1978 Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
• 14 Jun 1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
• 15 Jun 1978 Belgian government resigns
• 17 Jun 1978 Cheeseburger In Paradise by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32
• 18 Jun 1978 78th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill Country Club - Denver
• 19 Jun 1978 Best Little Whorehouse... opens at 46th St. NYC for 1577 performances
• 20 Jun 1978 A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves 1 civilian and 3 IRA men dead.
• 22 Jun 1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois
• 23 Jun 1978 Panamá recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
• 25 Jun 1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
• 26 Jun 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
• 27 Jun 1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
• 28 Jun 1978 Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
• 29 Jun 1978 US Vice President Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East.
• 30 Jun 1978 English Prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz

Famous Birthday

• Nicole Scherzinger

  American singer (Pussycat Dolls) and actress.

• Matthew Bellamy

  English vocalist, guitarist, pianist and songwriter (Muse).

• Zoe Saldana

  American actress.

• Erica Durance

  Canadian actress.

• Joshua Jackson

  Canadian actor.

• Justin Long

  American actor.

• Nikki Cox

  American actress.

• Alexandra Canto
• Maria Menounos

  American TV personality, the lovely Entertainment Tonight correspondent got her professional start as a reporter for Channel One News, which...

• Shane West

  American actor.

• Tishara Cousino
• Faudel

  French raï singer of Algerian descent.

• Frank Lampard

  English footballer.

• Mathis Künzler

  Swiss actor.

• Daniel Brühl

  Spanish-German actor.

• Bill Hader

  American comedian.

• Dirk Nowitzki

  German basketball player.

• Emma Heming
• Dominic Cooper

  English actor.

• Emppu Vuorinen

  Finnish guitarist and songwriter (Nightwish Brother Firetribe Altaria and Barilari).

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Famous Deaths

• Robert Charroux

  French writer of the occult and sci-fiction; he died on June 24, 1978 at age 69.

• Mark Robson

  Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1978).

• Karel G Bakker

  Actor (Coffee House), dies at 66.

• Hussein al-Ghasjmi

  President of North-Yemen, murdered.

• Rabbaji

  President of South-Yemen, executed.

• Theodore Karyotakis

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Clifford Dupont

  First President of Rhodesia (Born 1905).

• Walter C Alvarez

  American physician (Born 1884).

• Guo Moruo

  Chinese historian author and poet (d. 1978).

• John Meulenhoff

  Dutch publisher, dies at 71.

• Anton Roosjen

  Politician / NCRV-chairman, dies at 83.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Johnny Mathis - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
2. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want
3. Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing
4. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
5. Bonnie Tyler - It's A Heartache

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want
2. Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon / Brown Girl In The Ring
3. Father Abraham & The Smurfs - The Smurf Song
4. Darts - The Boy From New York City
5. Marshall Hain - Dancin' In The City