Historical Events
Golf Tournament
Jun 3 Tiger Woods claims his 73rd PGA tour victory with a 2 stroke win over Andrés Romero & Rory Sabbatini in the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village GC; equals Jack Nicklaus's record
- Jun 4 Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
- Jun 4 Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983
- Jun 4 MLB Draft: Puerto Rico Academy & HS shortstop Carlos Correa first pick by Houston Astros
- Jun 4 US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
- Jun 4 Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan
- Jun 5 American gubernatorial recall election is held in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker wins and becomes the first governor to survive a recall election.
CMT Music Awards
Jun 6 11th CMT Video Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, and Luke Bryan win
- Jun 6 The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
- Jun 6 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs - last transit of 21st century
Event of Interest
Jun 7 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays first performed found under a pub in London
- Jun 7 A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
- Jun 7 Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout speculation
- Jun 8 A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people
- Jun 9 144th Belmont: John Velazquez aboard Union Rags wins in 2:30.42
- Jun 9 Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
- Jun 9 It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
- Jun 10 66th Tony Awards: "Once" (musical) & "Clybourne Park" (play) win
- Jun 10 A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 10 French Open Women's Tennis: Maria Sharapova wins her first French title; beats Sara Errani of Italy 6-3, 6-2
LPGA Championship
Jun 10 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Locust Hill CC: Shanshan Feng of China wins by 2 strokes ahead of Eun-Hee Ji, Stacy Lewis, Mika Miyazato and Suzann Pettersen
Sports History
Jun 10 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Shoal Creek G&CC: Defending champion Tom Lehman wins by 2 strokes from Bernhard Langer of Germany and Taiwan's Lu Chien-soon
- Jun 11 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
- Jun 11 Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 11 French Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal beats Novak Đoković 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5; 3rd straight French title for Nadal
- Jun 11 Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA : LA Kings defeat New Jersey Devils, 6-1 for 4-2 series win; first SC title in Kings' 45-year history
- Jun 11 The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
- Jun 11 Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
- Jun 11 US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
- Jun 12 An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in 1980
- Jun 12 The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created
- Jun 12 World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer
The Amazing Spider-Man
Jun 13 "The Amazing Spider-Man" directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone premieres at the Tokyo Film Festival
- Jun 13 A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
Baseball Record
Jun 13 San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros
- Jun 14 An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
Music Concert
Jun 14 Ringo Starr's twelfth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Todd Rundgren, Richard Page, Gregg Bissonette, and Mark Rivera, 2012-13 / Warren Ham, 2014-17
- Jun 14 The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10-year-old girl
- Jun 15 Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
- Jun 15 Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches
- Jun 16 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India
- Jun 16 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
- Jun 16 Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
- Jun 17 France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
- Jun 17 Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
- Jun 17 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic Club, SF: American Webb Simpson wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Graeme McDowell and Michael Thompson
- Jun 18 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
- Jun 18 2nd Critics' Choice Television Awards: Community wins Best Comedy Series, Homeland wins Best Drama Series
- Jun 19 A man is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery in Saudi Arabia
- Jun 19 Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
- Jun 20 A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
- Jun 20 Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
- Jun 21 A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
- Jun 21 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
NBA Finals
Jun 21 NBA Finals: Miami Heat win their second NBA title; beat Oklahoma City Thunder, 121-106 in Game 5; MVP: LeBron James
- Jun 22 Cult Bollywood film "Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1" directed by Anurag Kashyap is released in India
- Jun 22 NHL Draft: Sarnia Sting (OHL) right wing Nail Yakupov first pick by Edmonton Oilers
- Jun 22 Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
- Jun 23 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
- Jun 23 A coach crashes in Croatia killing 8 Czech tourists and injuring 44
- Jun 23 Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
- Jun 24 Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
- Jun 25 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Jun 26 Animated film "Ice Age: Continental Drift", directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Buenos Aires
- Jun 26 Police procedural drama "Line of Duty" debuts on BBC 2 in the UK
- Jun 28 A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people
Sports History
Jun 28 NBA Draft: Kentucky center Anthony Davis first pick New Orleans Pelicans
- Jun 29 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
- Jun 29 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
- Jun 29 Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
- Jun 30 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
- Jun 30 Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia
Event of Interest
Jun 30 Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt
Famous Weddings
Drew Barrymore
Jun 2 Actress Drew Barrymore (37) weds writer Will Kopelman in Montecito, California
- Jun 2 Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley Biden (30) weds Dr. Howard David Krein at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware
Matthew McConaughey
Jun 9 Actor Matthew McConaughey (42) weds model Camilla Alves (30) in Austin, Texas
Rosie O'Donnell
Jun 9 Comedian Rosie O'Donnell (50) weds Michelle Rounds in New York
Wynonna Judd
Jun 10 Country music singer Wynonna Judd (48) weds "Highway 101" drummer Cactus Moser in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee
- Jun 16 "Superbad" actress Aviva Farber (27) weds actor Ken Baumann (22) in Malibu, California
- Jun 16 "Think Like a Man" and "Jumping the Broom" actress Meagan Good (30) weds Columbia Pictures VP DeVon Franklin (33) in Malibu, California
- Jun 16 English Supermodel Agyness Deyn (29) weds American "Avatar" actor Giovanni Ribisi (36) in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 2015
- Jun 17 "Revenge" actress Ashley Madekwe (30) weds "Secret Diary Of A Call Girl" actor Iddo Goldberg (36) in London, England
- Jun 18 R&B singer Bobby Brown (43) weds Alicia Etheridge in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Jun 21 Actor Aaron Johnson (22) weds film director and artist Sam Taylor-Wood (45) in Somerset
- Jun 23 "NCIS: Los Angeles" actor Eric Christian Olsen (35) weds Sarah Wright near Jackson Hole, Wyoming
- Jun 30 "The Doctors" co-host Travis Stork (40) weds pediatrician Dr. Charlotte Brown in Colorado
Alec Baldwin
Jun 30 Actor Alec Baldwin (54) weds Hilaria Thomas at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City
- Jun 30 Mick Jagger's daughter Jade Jagger (41) weds longtime boyfriend Adrian Fillary at the Aynhoe Park Hotel in Oxfordshire, England
- Jun 30 Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick (32) weds longtime girlfriend Kijfa Frink at the Fontainebleau resort in Miami Beach, Florida
Famous Divorces
- Jun 4 "The Wonder Years" actress Danica McKellar (37) divorces composer Mike Verta (36) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
- Jun 5 NBC musical drama series "Smash" actress Debra Messing (43) divorces actor and producer Daniel Zelman (44) by their mutual decision after 10 years of marriage
- Jun 14 New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton (48) divorces Beth Shuey due to conflict of personalities after nearly 20 years of marriage
- Jun 18 "The L Word" actress Laurel Holloman (41) divorces architect Paul Macherey (44) due to irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage
- Jun 28 "Spy Kids" actress Alexa Vega (23) divorces film producer Sean Covel (36) due to irreconcilable differences after less than two years of marriage
Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise
Jun 29 Actress Katie Holmes (33) divorces American film actor and producer Tom Cruise (50) allegedly due to disagreement about their religious beliefs and the raising of their daughter Suri, after 5 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Jun 2 Kathryn Joosten, American actress (Desperate Housewives), dies of lung cancer at 72
- Jun 2 Richard Dawson, British-American actor, comedian, and game show host (Hogan's Heroes, Family Feud), dies from esophageal cancer at 79
- Jun 4 George Marino, American Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer (Guns N' Roses; Bon Jovi; Stevie Wonder; John Lennon & Yoko Ono), dies of lung cancer at 65
- Jun 4 Herb Reed, American pop singer (The Platters - "Only You"; "The Great Pretender"), dies from multiple medical complications at 83
- Jun 4 Pedro Borbón, Dominican baseball pitcher (World Series 1975, 76; Cincinnati Reds), dies from cancer at 65
- Jun 5 Barry Unsworth, British novelist, dies from lung cancer at 81
- Jun 5 Ray Bradbury, American author (Fahrenheit 451), dies at 91
- Jun 6 Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey forward (Canada Cup 1981; Olympic gold 1984, 88; World C'ship gold 1981, 82, 83, 86, 89; Vancouver Canucks 1989-90), dies from liver failure at 52
- Jun 7 Bob Welch, American musician (Fleetwood Mac), commits suicide by gunshot at 66
- Jun 7 Nabil Totah, Palestinian-American jazz double bassist, dies at 72
- Jun 7 Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist and three time Nobel Prize nominee (hominid fossil sites), dies at 86
- Jun 8 Frank Cady, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies; Petticoat Junction; Green Acres - all as "Sam Drucker"), dies at 96
- Jun 11 Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress (Gone With The Wind; Whistling in the Dark), dies from heart disease at 94
- Jun 11 Norman F Lent, American republican Congressman, dies from cancer at 81
- Jun 11 Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (Olympic gold heavyweight 1972, 76, 80), dies from a heart attack at 60
Henry Hill (1943-2012)
Jun 12 American mobster and FBI informant (inspired Goodfellas), dies from a heart condition at 69
- Jun 13 Graeme Bell, Australian jazz pianist, band leader, and composer, dies at 97
- Jun 13 Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and communist (convicted for Holocaust denial), dies at 98
- Jun 13 William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel laureate, dies from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 95
- Jun 14 Dumitru Capoianu, Romanian conductor and classical and film composer (The Little Man), dies at 82
- Jun 16 Alasdair Fraser, Scottish-born Northern Irish lawyer, director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland, dies at 65
Rodney King (1965-2012)
Jun 17 African American motorist beaten by Los Angeles police officers, dies in an accidental drowning at 47
- Jun 18 Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, dies at 78
- Jun 18 Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor (A Hard Day's Night, Help!), dies from prostate cancer at 82 [1]
- Jun 19 Richard Lynch, American actor, dies at 76 (body found on this date)
- Jun 20 Andrew Sarris, American movie critic (Village Voice), dies at 83
- Jun 20 LeRoy Neiman, American painter, dies at 91
- Jun 21 Richard Adler, American musical theater composer and songwriter (Pajama Game; Damn Yankees)), dies at 90
- Jun 22 Fernie Flaman, Canadian Hockey HOF defenceman (Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs) and coach (Northeastern University 1970-89), dies at 85
- Jun 23 Alan McDonald, Northern Irish soccer defender (52 caps; QPR 476 games), dies from a heart attack at 48
- Jun 24 John Morgan, British ambassador (to Mexico), dies at 83
- Jun 24 Lonesome George, Pinta giant tortoise and rarest creature in the world, dies at c. 100
- Jun 26 Ann Curtis, American Olympic swimmer, dies at 86
Nora Ephron (1941-2012)
Jun 26 American novelist (Heartburn), screenwriter (Silkwood; When Harry Met Sally), and director (Sleepless In Seattle), dies from pneumonia, as a complication of leukemia, at 71
- Jun 27 Bill Gilbert, American sports author (Sports Illustrated, National Geographic), dies at 85
- Jun 27 Don Grady [Agrati], American actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), dies from cancer at 68
- Jun 28 Éric Gaudibert, Swiss composer, pianist, and teacher, dies at 75
- Jun 28 Leontine T. Kelly, 1st African American female bishop (United Methodist Church), dies at 92
Yitzhak Shamir (1915-2012)
Jun 30 Israeli Prime Minister (1983–84, 1986–1992) and Zionist, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 96
