Historical Events
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 4 French Open Women's Tennis: Li Na becomes first Chinese player to win a Grand Slam singles title; beats Italian defending champion Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 5 French Open Men's Tennis: Defending champion Rafael Nadal wins his 6th French title; beats Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6, 5-7, 6-1
- Jun 6 MLB Draft: UCLA pitcher Gerrit Cole first pick by Pittsburgh Pirates
CMT Music Awards
Jun 8 10th CMT Video Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, and Blake Shelton win
- Jun 9 Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy announces agreement to examine brains of recently deceased San Francisco 49ers football players Joe Perry and John Henry Johnson for signs of injury [1]
- Jun 11 143rd Belmont: Jose Valdivia Jr aboard Ruler On Ice wins in 2:30.88
- Jun 12 65th Tony Awards: "The Book of Mormon" (musical) & "War Horse" (play) win
- Jun 12 NBA Finals: Dallas Mavericks beat Miami Heat, 105-95 in Game 6 for first title in franchise history; MVP: Dirk Nowitzki
- Jun 13 Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3
- Jun 15 Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC: Boston Bruins defeat Vancouver Canucks, 4-0 for 4-3 series win; Bruins end 39-year Stanley Cup drought
US Golf Open
Jun 19 US Open Men's Golf, Congressional CC: Irishman Rory McIlroy wins by 8 strokes ahead of Australian Jason Day; sets 11 tournament records, including lowest total 72-hole score (268) and lowest total under par (−16)
Film & TV History
Jun 20 1st Critics' Choice Television Awards: Modern Family wins Best Comedy Series, Mad Men wins Best Drama Series
- Jun 20 Betty Dukes v. Walmart class action lawsuit on alleged employee gender discrimination in pay and promotion policies is decided in a 5-4 decision, ruling that the class should not be certified in its current form
Event of Interest
Jun 22 After hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Jun 23 "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf premieres at the Moscow Film Festival
Sports History
Jun 23 Kawhi Leonard is selected with the 15th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers and traded to the San Antonio Spurs on draft night
NBA Draft
Jun 23 NBA Draft: Duke point guard Kyrie Irving first pick Cleveland Cavaliers
Film & TV History
Jun 23 TV legal drama "Suits" starring Patrick J. Adams, Gabriel Macht and Meghan Markle premieres in the US
Appointment of Interest
Jun 24 Italian economist Mario Draghi is confirmed as new President of the European Central Bank
- Jun 24 NHL Draft: Red Deer Rebels (WHL) center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins first pick by Edmonton Oilers
LPGA Championship
Jun 26 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Locust Hill CC: Yani Tseng of Taiwan scores her 4th major title win by 10 strokes over Morgan Pressel
Election of Interest
Jun 28 Christine Lagarde becomes the 1st women to be elected head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Film & TV History
Jun 29 "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," directed by Michael Bay, is released and ultimately grosses $1.123 billion globally
- Jun 30 China opens the world's longest bridge the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge for the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway at 164.8-kilometre-long (102.4 mile)
Famous Weddings
Lily Allen
Jun 11 Recording artist Lily Allen (26) weds Sam Cooper (32) at St. James The Great church in Gloucestershire, England; divorce in 2018
Noel Gallagher
Jun 18 British "Oasis" guitarist Noel Gallagher weds Scottish publicist Sara MacDonald at the Lime Wood Hotel, New Forest National Park, England
- Jun 18 British peer and brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, Charles Spencer (47) weds Canadian social entrepreneur and former model Karen Gordon (39) at Althorp House in Northamptonshire
- Jun 18 Reality TV Personality Toya Carter (27) weds "The Deal" TV host Mickey Wright in Atlanta
Daniel Craig & Rachel Weisz
Jun 22 British actor best known as British secret agent "James Bond" Daniel Craig (43) weds film and theatre actress Rachel Weisz (41) at a private ceremony in New York
- Jun 27 Actress America Ferrera (28) weds actor and director Ryan Piers Williams (31) in New York
Famous Divorces
Elizabeth Hurley
Jun 15 Actress and model Elizabeth Hurley (45) divorces businessman Arun Nayar due to husband's unreasonable behavior
Famous Deaths
- Jun 2 Erapheael “Ray” Bryant, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger ("Madison Time"), dies at 79
- Jun 2 Willem Duys, Dutch TV presenter, commentator and music producer, dies at 82
- Jun 3 Andrew Gold, American rocker ("Lonely Boy"), and songwriter (Thank You For Being A Friend; The Final Frontier), dies in his sleep of heart failure at 59
Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011)
Jun 3 American pathologist and right-to-die activist, dies of a thrombosis at 83
- Jun 3 James Arness, American actor (Gunsmoke, How the West Was Won), dies of natural causes at 88
- Jun 4 Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer, dies at 58
- Jun 4 Claudio Bravo Camus, Chilean born painter, dies at 74
- Jun 4 David “Frankie” Toler, American drummer and percussionist (Allman Brothers), dies at 59 [1]
- Jun 4 Juan Francisco Luis, U.S. Virgin Islander governor (b. 1940)
- Jun 4 Kevin Kavanaugh, American rock keyboard player (Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, 1975-90), dies at 59
- Jun 4 Martin Rushent, British sound engineer (Gentle Giant; Shirley Bassey), and record producer (Buzzcocks; The Human League), dies at 62
- Jun 6 Shrek the sheep, New Zealand sheep that held world record for biggest shorn fleece, dies at 16
- Jun 7 Hubert Du Plessis, South African pianist and composer, dies at 88
- Jun 7 Jorge Semprún, Spanish-French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z), dies at 87
- Jun 7 Leonard B. Stern, American television screenwriter (The Honeymooners; The Phil Silvers Show: Get Smart), and producer, dies of heart failure at 88
- Jun 7 Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indian classical dancer, choreographer, and musicologist, dies at 88
- Jun 7 Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
- Jun 8 Alan Rubin, American jazz and session trumpeter and flugelhorn player (SNL; Blues Brothers) known as "Mr Fabulous", dies of cancer at 68
- Jun 9 M. F. Husain, Indian artist and painter, dies at 95
- Jun 9 Mike Mitchell, American basketball small forward (NBA All-Star 1981; Italian League top scorer 1998), dies from cancer at 55
- Jun 9 Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress, dies at 41
- Jun 10 Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish politician and minister dies of cancer at 52
- Jun 10 Jeanne Bice, American entrepreneur (Quacker Factory clothes), dies of cancer at 71
- Jun 10 Patrick Leigh Fermor, English soldier and travel writer (A Time of Gifts), dies at 96
Kurt Nielsen (1930-2011)
Jun 11 Danish tennis player, (Wimbledon 1953, 55 runner-up), dies at 80
- Jun 11 Seth Putnam, American extreme heavy metal guitarist and vocalist, dies of a heart attack at 43
- Jun 12 Carl Gardner, American pop-rock vocalist (The Coasters - "Yakety Yak"), dies at 83
- Jun 12 Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi poet and writer, dies at 63
- Jun 15 Bill Haast, American Herpetologist (b. 1910)
- Jun 18 Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist, known as "The Big Man" (The E-Street Band), dies of complications from a stroke (b. 1942); flags in New Jersey are lowered to half-mast
- Jun 18 Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (1991-2001), dies at 68
Yelena Bonner (1923-2011)
Jun 18 Soviet dissident and wife of Andre Sakharov, dies of heart failure at 88 [1]
- Jun 19 Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
- Jun 20 Jerome Rosen, American composer, dies at 89
- Jun 20 Ryan Dunn, American actor and TV personality (Homewrecker), dies at 34
- Jun 20 [Anna] Ottilie Patterson, Irish blues and jazz singer (Chris Barber Jazz Band), dies at 79
- Jun 21 Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)
- Jun 22 Harley Hotchkiss, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
- Jun 22 John Waite, South African cricket wicket-keeper, dies at 81
- Jun 23 Peter Falk, American actor (Colombo, Scared Straight), dies at 83
- Jun 24 Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football manager (b. 1933)
- Jun 25 Goff Richards, British brass band music composer and arranger
- Jun 25 Margaret Tyzack, English actress (b. 1931)
- Jun 26 Edith Fellows, American actress (Pennies From Heaven, She Married Her Boss), dies at 88
- Jun 27 Betty Callaway, English figure skating coach (Torvill & Dean, Regőczy & Sallay), dies after a fall at 83
- Jun 27 Elaine Stewart, American actress and model (The Bad and the Beautiful, Take the High Ground), dies at 81
- Jun 27 Gisèle Rabesahala, Malagasy politician (1st female minister) and human righter activist, dies at 82
- Jun 27 Mike Doyle, English former footballer (b. 1946)
- Jun 29 R. C. Alston, British bibliographer, dies at 78
- Jun 30 Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and businessman (b. 1947)
- Jun 30 David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander), dies at 86