June 1986 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1986 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley
• 02 Jun 1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins.
• 03 Jun 1986 Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
• 04 Jun 1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence.
• 05 Jun 1986 SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time
• 06 Jun 1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of the North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself.
• 07 Jun 1986 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8
• 08 Jun 1986 Big Deal closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances
• 09 Jun 1986 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn
• 11 Jun 1986 Amnesty International megaconcert
• 12 Jun 1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency.
• 13 Jun 1986 US President Ronald Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency.
• 15 Jun 1986 86th US Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club - New York
• 16 Jun 1986 1 day general strike in South Africa
• 17 Jun 1986 US Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns; Antonin Scalia nominated.
• 18 Jun 1986 52 die in plane / helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
• 19 Jun 1986 Len Bias, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure (born 1963).
• 20 Jun 1986 Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
• 21 Jun 1986 Living on Video by Trans-X peaks at #61
• 22 Jun 1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
• 23 Jun 1986 Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly
• 24 Jun 1986 US Senate approves tax reform
• 25 Jun 1986 Former Belgium Premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
• 27 Jun 1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal.
• 28 Jun 1986 Irish population condemns divorce
• 29 Jun 1986 Argentina becomes world champion soccer team
• 30 Jun 1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court

Famous Birthday

• Rafael Nadal

  Spanish-born tennis player and Olympic gold medal winner at the Beijing summer Olympics in 2008.

• Shia Labeouf
• Mary-Kate Olsen

  American actresses and fraternal twins, the Olsens have starred in many TV programs and movies beginning at an early age.

• Ashley Olsen

  American actress.

• Solange Knowles

  R&B Singer.

• Kat Dennings

  American actress.

• Drake Bell

  American actor and musician.

• Richard Gasquet

  French professional tennis player, he won a Bronze medal for Men's doubles tennis at the 2012 Olympics.

• Mario Casas

  TV Actor.

• Kellie Pickler

  American country music artist and TV personality.

• Sam Claflin

  Movie Actor.

• Sweden: independence
• Kim Hyun-joong
• Cintia Dicker
• Richard Madden

  Movie Actor.

• Amanda Crew

  Canadian actress.

• Crystal Renn
• Marie Avgeropoulos

  TV Actress.

• Dayana Mendoza

  Venezuelan beauty queen and Miss Universe 2008 winner.

• Nadège Lacroix
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Famous Deaths

• Coluche

  French film actor and comedian, he tried to be candidate for French presidence without success.

• Robert E Howard

  Sci-fi Author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80.

• Benny Goodman
• Kate Smith

  American singer ("God Bless America"), dies in Raleigh, North Carolina at age 78 (born 1907).

• Len Bias

  1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure.

• Robert Drivas

  Actor (Our Private World), dies at 47.

• Coluche [Michel Colucci]

  French comic, dies at 41.

• Murray P Haydon

  Artificial heart recipient, dies at 59 in Louisville, Kentucky.

• Gery Florizoone

  Flemish poet, dies at 63.

• Maurice Durufle

  French composer and organist (Born 1902).

• Tony Desimone

  combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at age 66.

• Jorge Luis Borges

  Argentine author, dies in Geneva, Switzerland at age 86 (born 1899).

• Alan Jay Lerner

  Broadway librettist, dies in New York at age 67.

• Don Rogers

  of the Cleveland Browns dies of cocaine poisoning.

• Aurele Joliat

  Canadian hockey player (Born 1901).

• Assi Rahbani

  Lebanese composer, singer (Rahbani Brothers) and producer (Born 1923).

• Jo Gartner

  Austrian race car driver (d. 1986).

• George Nepia

  New Zealand rugby player and referee (d. 1986).

• Edna Mae Cooper

  Actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce).

• Ida Mae McKenzie

  Entertainer.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All
2. Madonna - Live To Tell
3. Patti LaBelle - On My Own
4. Billy Ocean - There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)
5. Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Spitting Image - The Chicken Song
2. Doctor & The Medics - Spirit In The Sky
3. Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald - On My Own
4. Wham! - The Edge Of Heaven
5. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus