June 1979 calendar

June 1979
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in June 1979.
The US president was Jimmy Carter (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on June 1979: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of June 1979?

Events

01 Jun 1979 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 4 games to 1
02 Jun 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198.
03 Jun 1979 Madwoman of Central Park West opens on Broadway
04 Jun 1979 South-African President Vorster resigns due to scandal
05 Jun 1979 Seychelles adopts constitution
06 Jun 1979 Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
07 Jun 1979 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
08 Jun 1979 Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
09 Jun 1979 111th Belmont: Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6
10 Jun 1979 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
11 Jun 1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months
12 Jun 1979 Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association in Boston
13 Jun 1979 Madwoman of Central Park West opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 performances
14 Jun 1979 New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
15 Jun 1979 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds
16 Jun 1979 Logical Song by Supertramp peaks at #6
17 Jun 1979 Sarava closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
18 Jun 1979 US President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty
19 Jun 1979 In New York 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr
20 Jun 1979 Bill Stewart, ABC television news correspondant, and his interpreter Juan Espinosa are executed by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier while attempting to film war destruction in Nicaragua. The murders are caught on tape, and the footage is later shown on news broadcasts.
21 Jun 1979 Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
22 Jun 1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
23 Jun 1979 Rock group The Knack releases "My Sharona".
24 Jun 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
25 Jun 1979 Got Tu Go Disco opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances
26 Jun 1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final
27 Jun 1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
28 Jun 1979 OPEC raises oil prices 24%
29 Jun 1979 Moonraker premieres in US
30 Jun 1979 Got To Go Disco closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances

Famous Birthday

Chris Pratt (actor)
Emmanuel Moire
French pop singer and pianist, an eclectic artist: he participated on the musical "Le Roi Soleil" (playing Louis XIV), with Christophe Maé,...
Ryan Tedder
American Musician.
Mindy Kaling
American actress, comedian, writer, and producer widely known for creating and starring as Mindy Lahiri in the Fox sitcom The Mindy Project.
Petra Nemcova
Czech model.
La La (entertainer)
Pete Wentz
American musician (Fall Out Boy).
Kraków (Poland)
Benoît Poher
Morena Baccarin
Brazilian-born American actress.
Busy Philipps
American actress.
Florian Zeller
French novelist and playwright, whose work has been translated into a dozen languages.
Robyn (singer)
Tristane Banon
French journalist and writer (novels and essays).
Amandine Bourgeois
Anna Torv
Australian actress.
Solenne Figuès
French swimmer, she won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics on the 200m freestyle, after participating in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.
Manuela Ímaz
Damien Traille
Virginie Caprice
French glamour model television personality and pornographic actress.
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Famous Deaths

Nicholas Ray
American actor, and director famed for "Johnny Guitar," 1954, "The Lusty Men," 1954, "Rebel Without a Cause," 1955 and "King of Kings,"...
Demetrio Stratos
Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter (Area) (d. 1979).
Lowell George
American singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (Little Feat and The Mothers of Invention) (d. 1979).
Louis Salvador Palange
Composer, dies at 61.
Ben Weber
US Composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62.
Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich
Writer, dies at 77.
Lou Frizzel
Actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58.
Julius Sommer
Dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio.
Charles Clore
Financier.
Paul Dessau
German Composer / conducter (Berlin, 1925-33), dies at 84.
Alfons Vranckx
Belgian politician, dies at 72.
Emory Parnell
actor (Life of Riley), dies at age 85 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Pauline Offner
Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53.
Julian Orchard
Actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House), dies at 49.
Forrest Carter
American author (Born 1925).
John Wayne American film actor starring in over 250 films dies at age 72 after battling cancer for m
Stagecoach (1939), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952) and The Man Who Shot Liberty...
Ahmad Zahir
Afghan singer and composer (Born 1946).
Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong
Ghanaian dictator (Born 1931).
Louis Chiron
Monaco race driver, one of the leading motor racing drivers of the '20s and '30s.
Jack Haley
American film executive and co-founder, along with David Wolper, of Wolper Productions, Inc.
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