Page 6: Historical Events In June - 26

1958  Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed) on this day in history.   

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 June - 26.   

1959  Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway on this day in history.   

1959  On June - 26 ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title   

1959  Audley Miller, cricketer (Test for England 1896), dies on June - 26.   

1960  On this day in history 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 June - 26 kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58   

1962  On this day in history 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  On this day in history beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album   

1965  On June - 26 johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82   

1967  On this day in history errol Hunte, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930), dies   

1968  On June - 26 iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US   

1971  Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91 on this day in history.   

1972  David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1973  On June - 26 arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59   

1974  Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton) on this day in history.   

1975  On June - 26 indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency   

1975  On this day in history indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud   

1975  Supreme Court of Canada upholds PEI law banning non-residents from owning more than 4 hectares of land.(a small island?) on June - 26.   

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  Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France on this day in history.   

1978  First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched on this day in history.   

1978  Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed on this day in history.   

1979  On June - 26 charles Clore, financier, dies   

1981  On June - 26 peter Kreuder, German composer, dies   

1982  On this day in history a Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521   

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1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on June - 26.   

1582  On June - 26 birth of johannes Schultz, composer   

1655  On this day in history birth of jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent   

1681  On June - 26 birth of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)   

1689  On this day in history birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)   

1694  On this day in history birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)   

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman was born on June - 26.   

1703  Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767) was born on June - 26.   

0363  On this day in history flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies   

1291  On this day in history death of eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England   

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on June - 26.   

1631  Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies on this day in history.   

1657  On this day in history tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65   

1661  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1666  On June - 26 richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies   

1688  On this day in history ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies