Gregory Galloway

The Burmese Harp premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival on 9 June 1985 before wider release in July.

Night and the City premiered in New York City on 9 June 1950.

Based on Gerald Kersh’s 1938 novel (which director Jules Dassin admitted he never bothered to read), Jo Eisinger’s adaptation presents Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) as more sympathetic than the novel, some of which Dassin rejected (changing the opening scene in Eisinger’s script).

Dassin was in the process of being blacklisted and producer Darryl Zanuck told the director to film the most expensive scenes first, to make it more difficult for the studio to remove him. Dassin was not allowed back on the studio lot to edit or oversee the musical score for the film (he communicated with editors Nick De Maggio and Sidney Stone and composer Franz Waxman by phone). After he was blacklisted, Dassin continued his career overseas.

The British version of the film is longer, has a more “upbeat” ending, and an entirely different musical score than the US version.

Mos Def’s 4th studio album, The Ecstatic, was released on 9 June 2009.

The album debuted at #9 in the US and was named as one of the year’s best releases by a large number of publications.

Elton John's 18th studio album was released on 9 June 1984.

Breaking Hearts sold more than 1 million copies and peaked at #20 in the US. It also contained 3 Top 40 Singles in the US ("Sad Songs (Say So Much)," which peaked at #5; "Who Wears These Shoes" peaked at #16; and "In Neon" which peaked at #38).

Nick Lowe’s 2nd solo studio album was released on 9 June 1979.

The Rolling Stones 14th studio album (16th in the US), Some Girls, was released on 9 June 1978.

It was the first album recorded with Ronnie Wood, and remains the band’s best-selling record in the US.

President Barack Obama views the Gay Pride Flag with Gilbert Baker, the artist who designed the flag, prior to a reception in recognition of LGBT Pride Month, in the Blue Room of the White House, June 9, 2016.

Happy Pride!

Series: Presidential Photographs, 1/20/2009 - 1/20/2017

Collection: Records of the White House Photo Office (Obama Administration), 1/20/2009 - 1/20/2017

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I’d asked Robert Frank to take portrait for Selected Poems dust jacket, he showed up late Sunday afternoon, truck parked across from my apartment, yelled up, he had no camera. I came down with Leica & Fuji 6×9, he took some photos midstreet by his car, I snapped him thus, then with my Fuji he said, “This’ll be it,” as long lambent orange sunlight rayed down East 12th Street from Hudson River horizon, it worked fine for book, he was relaxed, accidentally unerring. N.Y. June 9, 1996. (Photo & caption Allen Ginsberg courtesy The National Gallery / Allen Ginsberg Estate) •

A.C. Newman's debut solo album was released on 8 June 2004.

The Style Council's 2nd studio album was released in the UK on 8 June 1985 (some sources have a May date).

Our Favourite Shop debuted at #1 in the UK and would go on to spend 13 weeks in the Top 40, and included 3 Top 40 singles - "Walls Come Tumbling Down!" (which peaked at #6), "Come to Milton Keynes" (#23), and "The Lodgers" (#13).

Siouxsie and the Banshees' 6th studio album was released on 8 June 1984.

Robert Smith, who had put the Cure on hold in May 1983, officially became a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees in August 1983 and co-wrote and played on every song on Hyaena (except "Belladonna").

Yoko Ono’s 5th studio album was released on 8 June 1981.

Released less than 6 months after the murder of John Lennon, Ono was told by the record company that stores would refuse to carry the album with a photograph of Lennon’s bloody glasses on the cover. “I didn’t understand it. Why? They said it was in bad taste… . his body was taken away, and the pair of glasses were the only thing I had managed to salvage… . ‘I’m not changing the cover. This is what John is now,’ I said.”

31-year-old Bob Dylan’s 10th studio album was released on 8 June 1970.

A double album of covers, instrumentals, and a handful of originals, Self Portrait confused critics and record buyers at the time (and still does). “What is this shit?” Greil Marcus famously asked in his review for Rolling Stone.

Dylan has not helped with the confusion, alternating over the years between defending the album as a serious recording and dismissing it as a joke, as well as a calculated attempt to shed his popular audience (”I wish these people would just forget about me,” Dylan explained in 1984 interview. “I wanna do something they can’t possibly like, they can’t relate to. They’ll see it, and they’ll listen, and they’ll say, ‘Well, let’s get on to the next person. He ain’t sayin’ it no more. He ain’t given’ us what we want,’ you know? They’ll go on to somebody else. But the whole idea backfired”).

The album was a commercial hit anyway, peaking at #4 in the US and #1 in the UK.

Ghostbusters premiered in Los Angeles on 7 June 1984, before opening nationwide the next day.

Written by Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis, and directed by Ivan Reitman, the film set studio box office records at the time, and was #1 at the US box office for 5 consecutive weeks (before being replaced by Purple Rain for a week then returning to the top spot). It was the highest-grossing film of 1984, and the highest-grossing comedy of all-time (before being surpassed by Beverly Hills Cop the following year).

There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You was released on 7 June 1993, the debut studio album by 23-year-old Will Oldham (under the name Palace Brothers).