Page 7: Historical Events In January - 30
Sunday, 21 June 2026
1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio 

1951 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75 

1953 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68. 

1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR 

1954 In Liverpool, Nova Scotia a freak winter tornado touches down near Liverpool 

1954 Italy's Fanfani government steps down. 

1956 Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes". 

1956 Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed. 

1956 Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88. 

1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine". 

1957 Grigore Gafencu, Romanian min of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65. 

1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in. 

1958 The inaugural 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX 

1958 Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70 

1959 Australia 1-200 inaugural day 4th Test vs England, Adelaide Oval. 

1960 CIA allows Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart) lookout Mr. Powers 

1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands. 

1960 Riot curtails third day's play at Port-Of-Spain West Indies vs England 

1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC 

1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corps 

1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit. 

1962 Two members of the Flying Wallendas family of high-wire performers are killed when their human pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. 

1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola) 

1963 P F "Plum" Warner, cricketer (England mgr during Bodyline tour), dies 

1964 Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam 

1964 NASA launches the unmanned probe Ranger Six, designed to crash-land on the lunar surface. 

1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail. 

1964 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80. 

1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3 

1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill. 

1965 Vic Jackson, cricketer (NSW/Leicerstershire off-spinner), dies in car. 

1966 -19ºF (-28ºC), Corinth MS (state record) 

1966 -27ºF (-33ºC), New Market AL (state record). 

1967 Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies 

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