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* 1 June - Jockey Lester Pigott rides
Teenoso to victory at the Epsom Derby,
Pigott's ninth win.
* 9 June - Margaret Thatcher,
Conservative Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom since 1979, wins a
landslide victory with a majority of
144 seats (though just 42% of the
popular vote) over Michael Foot.
* 9 June - Among the new members of
parliament are two Labour MP's, Tony
Blair for Sedgefield in County Durham
and Gordon Brown for Dunfermline East
in Scotland.
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