June 1984 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1984 Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
• 02 Jun 1984 Welcome To Fun Zone hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
• 03 Jun 1984 Wiz closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 13 performances
• 04 Jun 1984 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers
• 05 Jun 1984 Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
• 06 Jun 1984 1,200 die in Sikh Golden Temple uprising India
• 08 Jun 1984 A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over US$25 million in damage.
• 09 Jun 1984 Laserphonic Fantasy premieres
• 10 Jun 1984 38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
• 11 Jun 1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half of his ashes
• 14 Jun 1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
• 15 Jun 1984 Thicke Of The Night, TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
• 16 Jun 1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City
• 17 Jun 1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
• 18 Jun 1984 84th US Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot Golf Club - New York
• 19 Jun 1984 Weird Al Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair
• 20 Jun 1984 The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
• 22 Jun 1984 Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
• 24 Jun 1984 Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
• 25 Jun 1984 Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
• 26 Jun 1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
• 27 Jun 1984 Emmy 11th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 5th time
• 28 Jun 1984 Richard Ram?rez, aka the "Night Stalker," performs his first recorded murder.
• 29 Jun 1984 Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990
• 30 Jun 1984 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia

Famous Birthday

• Khloe Kardashian

  American reality television star.

• Andrea Casiraghi

  Monaco royalty, the first child of Princess Caroline and Stefano Casiraghi, married the prior December.

• Aubrey Plaza

  American comedian, writer and actress.

• Natasha Marley
• Duffy (singer)
• Fantasia Barrino

  American singer.

• Paul Dano

  American actor and producer.

• Cécilia Cara

  French actress and singer.

• Michaël Grégorio
• Indila

  French-Algerian female R&B singer and songwriter, best known as Indila.

• Joy Esther
• Torrey DeVitto

  American actress.

• Tamara Ecclestone

  English socialite and television presenter.

• Jessica White
• Elodie Varlet
• Wesley Sneijder

  Soccer Player.

• Janko Tipsarevic

  Serbian tennis player.

• Rocío Guirao Díaz
• Han Ji-hye

  South Korean actress and model.

• Melanie Eisenhower

  American noted family, the third child of Julie Nixon and her husband David Eisenhower.

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Famous Deaths

• Michel Foucault

  French philosopher and educator, a teacher at Clermant-Ferrand and in Paris and appointed to a chair in the History of Systems of Thought at...

• Joseph Losey

  American theater and film director.

• Enrico Berlinguer

  Italian head of the Communist Party from 1972-1984.

• William Keighley

  Director (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94.

• Swale

  Kentucky Derby winner, collapses and dies.

• Lee Krasner Pollock

  US painter, dies at 75.

• Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel

  Composer, dies at 88.

• George H Gallup

  Pollster (Gallup Poll), dies at 82.

• Chet Allen

  Actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51.

• Carl Foreman

  Producer, dies of cancer at 69.

• A Bertram Chandler

  Australian author (Born 1912).

• George Givot

  actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at age 81.

• Georgios Kasassoglou

  Greek musician (Born 1908).

• Gordon Jacob

  English composer (Born 1895).

• Antonio Variacoes

  Portuguese hairdresser and musician (Born 1944).

• Alan Berg

  American radio talk show host (Born 1934).

• Yigael Yadin

  Israeli archeologist general and politician Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1984).

• Milbourne Christopher

  American magician and author (d. 1984).

• Meredith Willson

  American playwright and composer (d. 1984).

• Clarence Campbell

  Canadian president of the National Hockey League (Born 1905).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy
2. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
3. Duran Duran - The Reflex
4. Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
5. Lionel Richie - Hello

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
2. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
3. neil - Hole In My Shoe
4. Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy
5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax