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FAIRHAVEN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1976
What Happend in June the year we graduated - 1976
June 2 East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia
June 3 Queen's "Bhoemian Rhapsody" goes gold; Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley vs. West Indies (0 and 17); U.S. presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
June 5 108th Belmont: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Bold Forbes wins in 2:29; "Bigfoot" by Bro Smith hits #57; Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage, 14 die
June 6 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2; Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic: Fairhaven High Class of 1976 graduates
June 7 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, premieres
June 8 Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1
June 10 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy; 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome
June 11 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa; Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain; Beatles "Rock and Roll Music" LP is released in USA; "Magnificent Marble Machine," last airs on NBC-TV
June 13 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi; Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam; Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
June 14 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4; "Gong Show" premieres on TV, syndication
June 15 Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium; Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor and Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick and Jim Freeman
June 16 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa, Soweto Day
June 17 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets and Spurs) merges into NBA; Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
June 18 Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, and Vida Blue to Yankees; Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for 340,000 pounds;
St. Louis Cardinals Lou Brock and Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park HRs
June 19 King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Dutchess Silvia Sommerlath; U.S. Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
June 20 76th U.S. Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga;Carl Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled; Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ; Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
June 21 Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
June 22 "Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 527 performances; San Diego Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk
June 23 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure, 555 m, opens
June 24 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
June 25 Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
June 26 WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball
June 27 Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda
June 27 Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda
June 27 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Invitational
June 27 "Pacific Overtures" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 193 performances; Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
June 28 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo
June 28 Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda
June 29 Seychelles gains independence from Britain
June 30 John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4
Figured we would share the above history as to jog our memories....
