Get Up and Boogie, it's June 1976!
A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in June 1976 was 'Get Up and Boogie' by Silver Convention.
June 2 – A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles. The murder was linked to his coverage of the mafia.
June 2 – A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles. The murder was linked to his coverage of the mafia.
June 2 - Breaking Point movie premieres.
June 3 - British parliamentarians came to the U.S. Capitol to present lawmakers with a one-year loan of the oldest known copy of the Magna Carta, one of only four that survive. It was later displayed for public viewing in the Rotunda of the Capital.
June 4 - CBS broadcasts Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns. This triple-overtime contest has since been heralded as the greatest NBA game ever played.
June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the U.S., killing 11 people.
June 6 – J. Paul Getty, industrialist dies. (born 1892)
June 7 - After several years providing commentaries for the show, David Brinkley joins John Chancellor as co-anchor of NBC Nightly News.
June 13 – Severe thunderstorms pass through Iowa, spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan.
June 14 - The Gong Show tv series premieres on NBC.
June 16 – Francis E. Meloy, Jr., the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.
June 17 – The National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association agree on the ABA-NBA merger.
June 18 - Midway movie premieres.
June 20 – Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon.
June 23 - The Big Bus, Logan's Run and Murder by Death movies premiere.
June 25 - The Omen movie premieres.
June 30 - The Outlaw Josey Wales movie premieres.
1976 Toyota Land Cruiser:
Playboy playmate of the month, Debra Peterson, and Playgirl man for June, Greg Hamilton:
Esquire magazine for June:
MAD magazine for June:
New York magazine for June 7 (cover story was inspiration for Saturday Night Fever movie):
Scooby Doo comic for June:
Albums released in June (Album / Artist):
The Runaways / The Runaways
All Things in Time / Lou Rawls
Rock 'n' Roll Music / The Beatles
Beautiful Noise / Neil Diamond
Chicago X / Chicago
A Night on the Town / Rod Stewart
Unorthodox Behaviour / Brand X
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell / Alice Cooper
Whistling Down the Wire / Crosby & Nash
Steal Your Face / Grateful Dead
Two for the Show / Trooper
Nielsen top 20 shows for the week of June 21-28:
McMillan and Wife (NBC), All in the Family (CBS), Starsky and Hutch (ABC), M-A-S-H (CBS), The Rookies (ABC), Maude (CBS), One Day at a Time (CBS), Happv Days (ABC), Baretta (ABC), Medical Center (CBS), Laverne and Shirley (ABC), Jigsaw John (NBC), Bob Newhart (CBS), Barnaby Jones (CBS), HawaiiFive-0 (CBS), Phyllis (CBS), Bionic Woman (ABC), Joe Forrester (NBC), Six Million Dollar Man (ABC), and Rhoda (CBS).
Fun YouTube video featuring some commercials from June 1976:
1976 Commercials
Fun YouTube video featuring some commercials from June 1976:
1976 Commercials
Evel Knievel Super Jet Cycle toy (released in 1976):
'Trinity' by Leon Uris moves to the top of the New York Times fiction best seller list.
Peanuts comic strip from June 1976:
For detailed news/info on what happened each day in June 1976, check out this really good site: ultimate70s.com
