- Jun 1 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
- Jun 1 1st NY Women Film Festival opens
- Jun 1 51st Tony Awards: "Titanic" (musical) & "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" (play) win
- Jun 1 After a huge 7-month buildup, Donovan Bailey of Canada beats American superstar Michael Johnson in 150m race in Toronto; disappointingly, Johnson pulls up at 110m mark with quadriceps injury
- Jun 1 Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
- Jun 1 LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked
Once Upon a Mattress
Jun 1 Revival of Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer's musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress", starring Sarah Jessica Parker, closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 188 performances
- Jun 2 Albert Belle's Chicago White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends
- Jun 2 Liberals beat Conservatives in France
- Jun 4 UN Security renews its "oilforfood" initiative whereby Iraq may sell $2 billion worth of oil to buy food, medicine and other necessities to alleviate civilian suffering under the sanctions imposed when it invaded Kuwait in 1990
- Jun 7 129th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Touch Gold wins in 2:28.8
Jun 7 French Open Women's Tennis: Iva Majoli of Croatia wins her 1st and only career Grand Slam singles title; upsets world #1 Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-2
- Jun 7 Russian reconnaissance satellite Cosmos 2344 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan using a four-stage Proton-K rocket [1]
- Jun 7 Stanley Cup Final, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings edge Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1 for a 4-0 series sweep; 8th title in Wings' franchise history and first since 1955
Jun 8 French Open Men's Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil wins first of 3 French titles; beats Spaniard Sergi Bruguera 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
- Jun 8 Horton Foote's stage drama "The Young Man From Atlanta" starring Rip Torn and Shirley Knight opens at Longacre Theatre, NYC, after 85 performances
- Jun 10 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China) is successful
- Jun 10 Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits SF Giants 9-0
Event of Interest
Jun 10 Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold
- Jun 12 1st ever baseball regular season inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
Jun 12 Shakespeare's Globe theatre opens in London, England, replica of original Globe theatre (1599-1642) with performance of Henry V, after campaign by Sam Wanamaker
- Jun 13 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
- Jun 13 American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years
- Jun 13 Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
- Jun 15 "Little Foxes" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 56 performances
Jun 15 US Open Men's Golf, Congressional CC: Ernie Els wins his second Open title, the second of his 4 major championships, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Colin Montgomerie
- Jun 16 The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed
- Jun 17 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000
- Jun 17 Wynton Marsalis releases his "Blood on the Fields" album (first jazz work to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music - 1997) [1]
- Jun 19 "Forever Tango!" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
- Jun 20 Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
- Jun 21 "Defending the Caveman" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 performances
Sports History
Jun 21 NHL Draft: Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL) center Joe Thornton first pick by Boston Bruins
- Jun 21 Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks
- Jun 22 WLAF World Bowl 5, Olympic Stadium, Barcelona: Barcelona Dragons beat Rhein Fire, 38-24
- Jun 23 Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts
- Jun 23 In the Central African Republic, soldiers fire on foreign peacekeepers in the third major rebellion since May
Baseball Record
Jun 24 Despite an AL record 19-strikeout performance by Randy Johnson, A's first baseman Mark McGwire hits a massive 538 foot home run in Oakland's 4-1 defeat of Seattle Mariners
- Jun 24 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
- Jun 24 USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies
- Jun 25 Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
- Jun 25 Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch is successful
- Jun 25 Jamaica issues warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
Sports History
Jun 25 NBA Draft: Wake Forest power forward Tim Duncan first pick by San Antonio Spurs
- Jun 25 NHL approves franchises in Nashville, Atlanta, Columbus, and Minnesota-St Paul
- Jun 25 Progress M-34 Collides with and damages Mir Space Station
- Jun 26 Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9)
Harry Potter Published
Jun 26 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st book in J. K. Rowling's best-selling series, is published
- Jun 26 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
- Jun 26 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Communications Decency Act, inconsistent with the 1st Amendment
- Jun 28 American TV evangelist Robert Schuller (70) attacks a male flight attendant (33), after disputes regarding during a luggage stowage, and cheese [1] [2]
Steel Pier
Jun 28 John Kandor and Fred Ebb's musical "Steel Pier" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC, after 76 performances
Master Class
Jun 28 Terrence McNally's play "Master Class", starring Audra McDonald and Zoe Caldwell, closes at John Golden Theater, NYC, after 598 performances and 2 Tony Award wins
- Jun 29 "American Daughter" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 88 performances
- Jun 29 "London Assurance" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 72 performances
- Jun 29 Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
- Jun 29 Tyrenda Williams, 18, of Alabama, crowned 40th America's Junior Miss
- Jun 29 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Olympia Fields CC: Graham Marsh of Australia wins by 1 stroke ahead of South African John Bland
- Jun 30 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires, established by the Second Convention of Peking
- Jun 30 Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
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