June 1980 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
• 03 Jun 1980 Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
• 05 Jun 1980 Soyuz T-2 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.
• 07 Jun 1980 Billy Bishop Goes to War closes at Morosco NYC after 12 performances
• 08 Jun 1980 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little
• 09 Jun 1980 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn
• 10 Jun 1980 A Unabomber bomb injures United Airlines president Percy Wood in Lake Forest, Illinois.
• 11 Jun 1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service
• 12 Jun 1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
• 13 Jun 1980 Deborah Harry / Meat Loaf film, Roadie, premieres
• 14 Jun 1980 Theme From NY, New York by Frank Sinatra hits #32
• 15 Jun 1980 Fearless Frank opens at Princess Theater NYC for 12 performances
• 16 Jun 1980 Blues Brothers, premieres in Chicago
• 17 Jun 1980 Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
• 18 Jun 1980 Blues Brothers with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi premieres
• 19 Jun 1980 Battle between police and demonstrators in Cape Town, 34 killed
• 20 Jun 1980 California Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs and double to beat Red Sox 20-2
• 22 Jun 1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
• 23 Jun 1980 David Letterman Show, debuts on NBC-TV daytime
• 24 Jun 1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, first horse to win $2 million.
• 25 Jun 1980 Fearless Frank closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances
• 26 Jun 1980 Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the sea near Palermo after an explosion occurs in the air 81 people die. A bomb or a missile is suspected to be the cause of the accident but no culprits are ever found.
• 27 Jun 1980 1st female state police graduates
• 28 Jun 1980 New York City transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents
• 29 Jun 1980 Sweeney Todd closes at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances
• 30 Jun 1980 West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow

Famous Birthday

• Venus Williams

  American athlete who blazed her way up the ranks of Women's Tennis in 1998 at the age of 18.

• Minka Kelly

  American actress.

• Sibel Kekilli

  German actress.

• Jason Schwartzman

  American actor, from a noted family.

• Melissa Rauch

  TV Actress.

• Mathieu Johann
• Sinik (rapper)
• Thomas Saillofest
• Sarah Connor (singer)
• Charlamagne Tha God
• Katherine Jenkins

  Welsh mezzo soprano.

• Wendy Bouchard
• Rémy Vercoutre

  French football/soccer goalkeeper who has played for Caen since 2014.

• Francesca Schiavone

  Italian tennis player.

• Justine Fraioli
• David Giuntoli

  TV Actor.

• Leïla Kaddour-Boudadi
• Shannon Lucio
• Florent Malouda

  French footballer.

• Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen
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Famous Deaths

• Sanjay Gandhi

  Indian politician and noted family, the second son of Indira Ghandi and grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru.

• Ernst Busch

  German stage actor, singer, socialist, leading interpreter of roles created by dramatist bertolt brecht; tortured by gestapo in wwii.

• Henry [Valentine] Miller

  US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88.

• Richard Bonnelli

  Actor (Enter Madame).

• Leonard Huizinga

  Journalist / writer (Olivier & Adrian), dies at 73.

• Gustaf Allan Pettersson

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Heal Gahagan Douglas

  (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon, dies at 79.

• Herbie Faye

  Comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81.

• Yoshiro Irino

  Composer, dies at 58.

• Masayoshi Ohira

  Prime minister of Japan (Born 1910).

• Steve Peregrin Took

  percussionist (T-Rex), dies at age 31.

• Varahagiri Venkata Giri

  Indian politician (Born 1894).

• Miriam Daly

  Irish republican activist (Born 1928).

• Jose Iturbi

  Temperamental, volatile Spanish-born pianist and conductor whose life and career were varied and often controversial.

• Andre Leducq

  French cyclist (Born 1904).

• Odile Versois

  French stage/film actress, dancer, sister of actresses Marina Vlady, Helene Vallier & Olga Poliakoff, in more than 30 films, married once,...

• Walter Rodney

  Guyanese historian scholar and activist (d. 1980).

• Arthur Nielsen

  American market analyst founded ACNielsen (d. 1980).

• Billy Butlin

  Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (Born 1899).

• Rube Marquard

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1980).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown
2. Paul McCartney - Coming Up (Live At Glasgow)
3. Paul McCartney - Coming Up
4. Blondie - Call Me
5. Ambrosia - Biggest Part Of Me

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Johnny Logan - What's Another Year
2. Don McLean - Crying
3. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
4. MASH - Theme From 'M*A*S*H' (Suicide is Painless)
5. Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It