Page 7: Historical Events In January - 06
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
1956 KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 

1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show. 

1957 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia. 

1958 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar 

1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings 

1958 Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun, dies at 85 

1959 Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer, dies at 54 

1960 Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52 

1961 Regina Ullmann, writer, dies at 76. 

1962 Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 

1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC 

1963 Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68. 

1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville. 

1964 Rolling Stones' inaugural tour as headline act (with Ronettes) 

1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville. 

1964 Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67 

1965 Canada part of new NATO anti-submarine destroyer squadron operating in the Atlantic 

1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against S Africa, his best Test bowling 

1965 John Larkin, dir (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52. 

1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV 

1967 Two homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 

1967 Arnhem "Tata" Joseph Weiss, "the Zigeunerbaron," buried 

1968 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks. 

1968 Dr N E Shumway performs the inaugural US adult cardiac transplant operation. 

1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon. 

1968 Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81. 

1969 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" 

1971 Berkeley chemists announces the inaugural synthetic growth hormones. 

1971 In Vancouver BC, Neil Young returns to Canada for his inaugural concerts since pre-stardom days; named best male singer and best composer this year 

1972 US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley 

1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR 

1973 "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock 

1974 "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio. 

1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike. 

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