Popular Song of the Week
Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Some events of the week
- June 8 – President Nixon announces that 25,000 American troops will be withdrawn from the Vietnam War by the end of September.
- June 9 – Republican President Nixon’s nominee Warren E. Burger is confirmed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by the Democrat-dominated United States Senate, 74 to 3.
- June 10 – A column of Soviet troops and tanks crosses the border from the Kazakh SSR (now the nation of Kazakhstan) into the Xinjiang autonomous region of the People’s Republic of China, moving through the Yumin, and shots are exchanged between Chinese borders guards and the invaders.
- June 11 – The first trip by sled across the Arctic Ocean is successfully concluded on the Norwegian island of Vesle Tavleøya after starting at Point Barrow Alaska on February 21, 1968.
- June 12 – For the first time in history, part of Niagara Falls is “turned off” for repairs and geological study for preservation of American Falls.
- June 13 – The “Amen break“, a 6-second drum solo that would become “the most sampled musical track of all time,” is recorded for the first time.
- June 14 – Dr. Joseph Weber announces the first detection and measurement proving the existence of gravitational waves, postulated by Albert Einstein in 1916 as part of his general theory of relativity.
