June 1981 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1981 Production of Chevrolet Corvette cars begins at a new plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. The first Corvette is a two-tone Beige over Dark Brown 1981 model.
• 02 Jun 1981 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
• 03 Jun 1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
• 04 Jun 1981 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus
• 05 Jun 1981 Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays
• 06 Jun 1981 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
• 07 Jun 1981 35th Tony Awards: Amadeus and 42nd Street win
• 08 Jun 1981 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
• 10 Jun 1981 Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Company
• 11 Jun 1981 Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
• 12 Jun 1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark starring Harrison Ford premieres
• 13 Jun 1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
• 14 Jun 1981 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
• 17 Jun 1981 Battle between Moslems and Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
• 18 Jun 1981 Vaccine to prevent hoof and mouth disease announced
• 19 Jun 1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified.
• 20 Jun 1981 Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
• 21 Jun 1981 81st US Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion Golf Club - Ardmore, Pennsylvania
• 22 Jun 1981 Iran President Bani Sadr deposed
• 23 Jun 1981 This Was Burlesque opens at Princess Theater NYC for 28 performances
• 24 Jun 1981 The Humber Bridge is opened to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years.
• 25 Jun 1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
• 26 Jun 1981 For Your Eyes Only premieres in US
• 27 Jun 1981 Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
• 28 Jun 1981 Piaf closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 165 performances
• 29 Jun 1981 Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed

Famous Birthday

• Natalie Portman

  American / Israeli movie actress (Natalie was inspired to his father by Bécaud's song).

• Adriana Lima

  Brazilian supermodel.

• Chris Evans (actor)
• Anna Kournikova

  Russian tennis player: WTA Tour.

• Brandon Flowers

  American singer and keyboardist (The Killers).

• Amy Schumer

  Comedian.

• Damien Sargue

  French singer and actor.

• Christophe Soumillon

  Belgian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey, son of a horse racing family.

• Jade Goody

  British television personality (d. 2009).

• Vahina Giocante

  French actress born (in a swimming-pool) to a Corsican father and an Andalusian mother.

• Amrita Rao
• Anchorage (Alaska)
• Larisa Oleynik

  TV Actress.

• Sébastien Lefebvre

  Canadian singer and guitarist (Simple Plan).

• Alex Band

  American musician.

• Céréna (singer)
• Cécile Alzina
• Estefania Iglesias
• Jonathan Bennett

  American actor.

• Nora Tschirner

  German television presenter.

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Famous Deaths

• Zarah Leander

  Swedish singer and actress whose greatest success was in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s.

• Allen Ludden

  American game show host and TV executive.

• Naim Chadir

  PLO representative in Brussels, murdered.

• Eppo Doeve

  Dutch graphic artist / cartoonist / painter, dies at 73.

• Humphrey Keervelt

  Director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered.

• John S Knight

  US newspaper magnate, dies at 86.

• Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti

  Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed.

• Peter Paul Kreuder

  German composer, dies at 75.

• Gunnar Ek

  Composer, dies on 81st birthday.

• Mohammed Hussein Beheshti

  Iran ayatollah / politician, murdered.

• Carleton S Coon

  American anthropologist (Born 1904).

• Jule Gregory Charney

  American meteorologist (Born 1917).

• Richard O'Connor

  British general (Born 1889).

• Peter Kreuder

  German musician, pianist, songwriter, and composer.

• Carl Vinson

  American judge and politician (d. 1981).

• Russell Hayden

  Actor (Hidden Gold, Apache Chief, Justice).

• Russell "Lucky" Hayden

  Actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68.

• Lola Lane

  Actress (Zanzibar, Mystery Ship, Big Fight).

• Carleton Coon

  Anthropology prof (What in the World), dies at 76.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
2. Stars On 45 - Medley
3. Smokey Robinson - Being With You
4. Taste Of Honey, A - Sukiyaki
5. Ray Parker Jr. - A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Smokey Robinson - Being With You
2. Kate Robbins & Beyond - More Than In Love
3. Michael Jackson - One Day In Your Life
4. The Jam - Funeral Pyre
5. Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver