Page 6: Historical Events In June - 26

1958  On June - 26 vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)   

1958  On June - 26 gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium   

1958  Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93 on June - 26.   

1959  On June - 26 ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ   

1959  On June - 26 queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway   

1959  Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title on this day in history.   

1959  On June - 26 audley Miller, cricketer (Test for England 1896), dies   

1960  On June - 26 british Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain   

1960  On this day in history madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)   

1960  On this day in history john Brenden Kelly, rower (Olympic-gold-1920, 24), dies at 70   

1961  On this day in history 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  On June - 26 kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)   

1963  On this day in history alfons Gorbach forms Austrian govt   

1963  On June - 26 obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies   

1964  On June - 26 beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album   

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

1967  On June - 26 errol Hunte, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930), dies   

1968  Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US on this day in history.   

1971  Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91 on June - 26.   

1972  David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61 on June - 26.   

1973  Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59 on June - 26.   

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

1975  On this day in history indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency   

1975  On June - 26 indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud   

1975  On this day in history supreme Court of Canada upholds PEI law banning non-residents from owning more than 4 hectares of land.(a small island?)   

1977  On this day in history 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn   

1977  On this day in history lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43   

1978  On June - 26 brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France   

1978  First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched on June - 26.   

1978  Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed on June - 26.   

1979  Charles Clore, financier, dies on June - 26.   

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

1982  On June - 26 a Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521   

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1575  On June - 26 birth of anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)   

1582  On this day in history birth of johannes Schultz, composer   

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent was born on this day in history.   

1681  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) was born on June - 26.   

1689  On June - 26 birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)   

1694  Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) was born on June - 26.   

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

1703  On this day in history birth of thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)   

0363  On June - 26 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  On June - 26 justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies   

1657  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1661  On June - 26 lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76   

1666  Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies on this day in history.   

1688  Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies on this day in history.