Jun 16 Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.

Jun 22 In the Tonga Islands a 7.2 earthquake was centered approximately 2200 kilometers north of Wellington, New Zealand

Jun 22 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" released

Jun 11 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland

Jun 30 Marvel Comics publish the "Kiss book" tributing the rock group Kiss

Jun 24 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976

Jun 19 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann first US male saint

Jun 21 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison

Jun 27 Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)

Jun 25 LBJ denies report he had a cancer during his presidency

Jun 15 Spain's first free elections since 1936

Jun 10 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison

Jun 29 Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults

Jun 09 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks

Jun 12 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library

Jun 06 Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws

Jun 15 General elections held in Spain, the first since 1936

Jun 02 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City

Jun 26 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn

Jun 07 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law

Jun 05 The first personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale

Jun 04 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2

Jun 05 Coup in Seychelles

Jun 10 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II

Jun 28 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers

Jun 11 Seattle Slew wins Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown

Jun 27 French Somaliland becomes the independent country of Djibouti

Jun 30 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)

Jun 22 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison

Jun 30 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"

Jun 16 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist, dies at age 65.

Jun 16 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway

Jun 21 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM

Jun 18 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for first time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747

Jun 09 George &Patti Harrison divorce

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