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....

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