What Happened In June 1997 In History

Historical Events for June, 1997

• 2nd » In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy (crime) e.g conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing known as bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was exec
• 6th » Prom Mom incident: While attending her senior prom in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler gives birth in a bathroom stall, leaves the baby to die in a trash can and then returns to the prom.
• 12th » Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
• 13th » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to Capital punishment e.g death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 25th » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
• 26th » The Supreme Court of the United States known as U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 26th » Bertie Ahern becomes Prime Minister of Ireland.

Famous Birthdays on June in 1997

• 8th » Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
• 17th » Ottomar Ladva, Estonian chess player
• 17th » Sadie Robertson, American reality television star
• 18th » Max Records, American actor
• 21st » Rebecca Black, American singer
• 21st » Ferdinand Zvonimir von Habsburg, Austrian race car driver
• 22nd » Tami Grende, Indonesian tennis player
• 30th » Iryna Shymanovich, Belarusian tennis player

Famous Deaths for June 1997

• 3rd » Dennis James, American actor and game show host (b. 1917)
• 4th » Vladimir Hütt, Russian-Estonian physicist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 4th » Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Faces (band) named Faces and Small Faces) (b. 1946)
• 5th » J. Anthony Lukas, American journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 6th » Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (b. 1915)
• 8th » George Turner (writer) named George Turner, Australian author and critic (b. 1916)
• 8th » Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and educator (b. 1948)
• 9th » Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• 12th » Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 13th » Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909)
• 14th » Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
• 16th » Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
• 18th » Lev Kopelev, Russian author (b. 1912)
• 19th » Olga Georges-Picot, Chinese-French actress (b. 1944)
• 19th » Bobby Helms, American singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 20th » Lawrence Payton, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Four Tops) (b. 1938)
• 21st » Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1931)
• 21st » Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican union leader (b. 1900)
• 22nd » Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 22nd » Don Henderson, English actor (b. 1932)
• 22nd » Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1919)
• 23rd » Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1936)
• 24th » Brian Keith, American actor and director (b. 1921)
• 25th » Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (b. 1910)
• 26th » Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
• 29th » William Hickey (actor) or William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)

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