I just saw that I have 1979 POSTS here at MyBloggers, So I searched..."1979 History for June." Interesting, don't you think? ESPECIALLY JUNE 3, 1979
Ana
June
* June 1 – The Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
* June 1 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
* June 1 – The Seattle SuperSonics win the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.
* June 2 – Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
* June 3 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill ever.
* June 3 – General elections are held in Italy.
* June 4 – Joe Clark becomes Canada's 16th and youngest Prime Minister.
* June 4 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Akuffo is overthrown.
* June 7 – The first direct elections to the European Parliament begin, allowing citizens from across all then-9 European Community member states to elect 410 MEPs. It is also the first international election in history.
* June 12 – Bryan Allen flies the man-powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.
* June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.
* June 20 – A Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.
* June 23 – Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line in 1980.
* June 24 – Bologna (Italy): foundation of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, an international opinion tribunal, at the initiative of Senator Lelio Basso.
* June 25 – Belgium: NATO Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization