Page 7: Historical Events In June - 10
Saturday, 21 February 2026
1954 Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87. 

1954 In this year, PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting 

1955 The inaugural separation of virus into component parts reported. 

1956 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm 

1957 Harold MacMillan is recorded as becoming British PM 

1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada with the biggest majority to date. 

1961 Suzanne Clayton's birthday June 10th 1961 

1963 Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74. 

1964 Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked. 

1964 Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79. 

1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2370 van Altena 

1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in the UK. 

1966 Janis Joplins inaugural live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF). 

1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help 

1967 Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76 

1968 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 

1969 Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64 

1971 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill 

1971 Us lift 21 year trade embargo on China 

1971 Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61 

1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit 

1973 William M Inge, US playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60. 

1974 Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74. 

1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300000 illegal CIA files on Americans. 

1976 67000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome. 

1976 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/US fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103. 

1977 Apple Computer ships its inaugural Apple II. 

1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison. 

1979 inaugural ever European Assembly elections. 

1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland 

1980 Denys Morkel, S Afr cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies 

1981 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail 

1981 Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68 

1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut 

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