June 1997 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1997 1st New York Women Film Festival opens
• 02 Jun 1997 Liberals beat Conservatives in France
• 06 Jun 1997 In Lacey Township, New Jersey, high school senior Melissa Drexler kills her newborn baby in a toilet.
• 07 Jun 1997 129th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Touch Gold wins in 2:28.8
• 08 Jun 1997 Young Man From Atlanta closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 85 performances
• 09 Jun 1997 Detroit Tigers bat out of order against Oakland Athletics in 1st inning
• 10 Jun 1997 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
• 11 Jun 1997 In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
• 12 Jun 1997 1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
• 13 Jun 1997 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
• 15 Jun 1997 Little Foxes, closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 56 performances
• 16 Jun 1997 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and LeAnn Rimes
• 17 Jun 1997 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 and Minneapolis-St Paul and Columbus, Ohio in 2000
• 19 Jun 1997 Forever Tango!, opens at Walter Kerr Theater, New York City
• 20 Jun 1997 Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
• 21 Jun 1997 Defending the Caveman, closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 performances
• 22 Jun 1997 Nationwide Senior Golf Championship
• 23 Jun 1997 Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts
• 24 Jun 1997 4-1, Mark McGwire his a 538 foot HR
• 25 Jun 1997 Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby
• 26 Jun 1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations
• 27 Jun 1997 Walt Disney Feature Animation's thirty-fifth animated feature Hercules is released.
• 28 Jun 1997 Master Class, closes at Golden Theater NYC after 601 performances
• 29 Jun 1997 American Daughter closes at Cort Theater NYC after 88 performances
• 30 Jun 1997 Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks

Famous Birthday

• Rebecca Black

  American pop star.

• Dinah Jane Hansen
• Kodak Black

  Rapper.

• KJ Apa

  Soap Opera Actor.

• Antoine-Olivier Pilon
• Sadie Robertson
• Jelena Ostapenko
• FaZe Adapt

  YouTube Star.

• Kevin Droniak

  YouTube Star.

• Devon Brown

  Dancer.

• Juliet Doherty

  Dancer.

• Chase Carter

  Instagram Star.

• Sadie Robertson

  Reality Star.

• Wesley Tucker

  YouNow Star.

• Anastasia Karanikolaou

  Vine Star.

• Charlie George

  Pop Singer.

• Lorea Turner

  Pop Singer.

• Anthony Wilson

  YouTube Star.

• Lewis Levy

  YouTube Star.

• Richard Linnell

  Soap Opera Actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Olga Georges-Picot

  French noted family, the daughter of an ambassador born in China.

• Brian Keith

  American movie and TV actor, who appeared in 80 films, versatile enough to portray everything from a homicidal maniac to a burly military...

• Ronnie Lane

  English bass player songwriter and producer (Faces and Small Faces) (d. 1997).

• Henry C Gordon

  USAF / Astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71.

• Art Prysock

  Jazz musician, dies at 68.

• "Wino" Willie Forkner

  Biker (Wild One), dies of heart attack at 77.

• William Lyle Woratzeck

  Convicted killer, executed in Ariz at 51.

• Fidel Velazquez Sanchez

  Mexican labour leader (Born 1900).

• Ted Gardestad

  Swedish singer (Born 1956).

• Gerard Pelletier

  Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (Born 1919).

• Larry O'Dea

  Australian professional wrestler (Born 1944).

• Kurt Adler

  Austrian-born American conductor and opera house director.

• Don Hutson

  American football player and coach (d. 1997).

• Lawrence Payton

  American singer-songwriter and producer (Four Tops) (d. 1997).

• Lev Kopelev

  Ukrainian-German author and academic (d. 1997).

• Betty Shabazz

  American educator and widow of Malcolm X (Born 1936).

• Doc Cheatham

  American trumpet player singer and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) (d. 1997).

• Stanley Knowles

  American-Canadian academic and politician (d. 1997).

• Bobby Helms

  American singer and guitarist (d. 1997).

• William Hickey

  American actor (Born 1927).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Hanson - MMMbop
2. Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You
3. The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
4. Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack
5. The Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Cardigans - Lovefool
2. Hanson - Mmm Bop
3. Olive - You're Not Alone
4. Eternal featuring BeBe Winans - I Wanna Be The Only One
5. R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly