Historical Events In June - 26
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed) on June - 26.
1958 Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium on June - 26.
1958 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93 on June - 26.
1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ on this day in history.
1959 On this day in history queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway
1959 On June - 26 ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title
1959 On this day in history audley Miller, cricketer (Test for England 1896), dies
1960 On June - 26 british Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day) on June - 26.
1960 John Brenden Kelly, rower (Olympic-gold-1920, 24), dies at 70 on this day in history.
1961 On this day in history kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58
1962 On June - 26 blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) on this day in history.
1963 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian govt on this day in history.
1963 Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies on June - 26.
1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album on June - 26.
1965 On this day in history johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82
1967 On June - 26 errol Hunte, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930), dies
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US on this day in history.
1971 Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91 on this day in history.
1972 David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61 on June - 26.
1973 Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59 on June - 26.
1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton) on June - 26.
1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency on June - 26.
1975 On this day in history indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud
1975 On this day in history supreme Court of Canada upholds PEI law banning non-residents from owning more than 4 hectares of land.(a small island?)
1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn on this day in history.
1977 Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43 on this day in history.
1978 On June - 26 brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched on this day in history.
1978 On this day in history rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed
1979 On June - 26 charles Clore, financier, dies
1981 Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies on this day in history.
1982 On this day in history a Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521
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