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Tuesday, 30 June 2026
1950 WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting 
1951 inaugural Navy use of jet aircraft as a bomber, launched from a carrier, USS Princeton
1951 Simon Barere pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall.
1952 Bernard Lyot inventor (chronograph), dies.
1952 Bernard F Lyot, Fren astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55.
1953 Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
1953 Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56.
1954 Plans to build Disneyland inaugural announced.
1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced [see Jan 26]
1955 Halifax Nova Scotia the opening of Angus L. Macdonald Bridge linking Halifax and Dartmouth and I was there
1955 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1956 Soap operas "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieres on TV.
1956 Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff and Juliet," premieres in Manchester
1956 Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82.
1957 In Toronto 22-year-old Elvis Presley plays two concerts before 23000 people at Maple Leaf Gardens; his second concert, before 15000 fans
1958 Last load of bitumen on Pacific Highway between Sydney and Brisbane is laid 18km south of Taree, NSW.
1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record).
1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens.
1959 Benjamin Christensen, Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery), dies at 79
1960 USS Glacier begins 12 days of relief operations, providing helicopter and boat transportation and emergency supplies to residents of Paramaribo, Brazil after floods.
1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR
1961 August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67.
1962 The inaugural official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London
1963 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
1963 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8500 km
1964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1964 Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria.
1965 Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy.
1965 Renzo Bossi, composer, dies at 81.
1966 Death of Cecil Scott Forester, author of the Captain Hornblower novels, and The African Queen.
1966 Leading Liberal Andrew Peacock enters Australian federal parliament, winning Sir Robert Menzies' old seat of Kooyong in a by-election;
1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 is recorded as becoming inaugural spacecraft to orbit Moon
1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 is recorded as becoming spacecraft to orbit Moon.
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