Historical Events In June - 26

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

1958  On this day in history gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium  

1958  Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93 on this day in history.  

1959  Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ on this day in history.  

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 June - 26.  

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

1960  British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain on this day in history.  

1960  Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day) on June - 26.  

1960  On June - 26 john Brenden Kelly, rower (Olympic-gold-1920, 24), dies at 70  

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1961  On this day in history kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58  

1962  Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill on June - 26.  

1963  Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) on this day in history.  

1963  On this day in history alfons Gorbach forms Austrian govt  

1963  Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies on this day in history.  

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

1965  Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1967  On this day in history 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  On June - 26 guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91  

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

1973  On this day in history arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59  

1974  On June - 26 liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)  

1975  On June - 26 indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency  

1975  Indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud on this day in history.  

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

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

1977  Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43 on this day in history.  

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

1978  First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched on this day in history.  

1978  Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed on this day in history.  

1979  Charles Clore, financier, dies on this day in history.  

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

1982  A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521 on this day in history.  

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1575  On this day in history birth of anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)  

1582  On June - 26 birth of johannes Schultz, composer  

1655  On June - 26 birth of jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent  

1681  On this day in history birth of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)  

1689  Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769) was born on June - 26.  

1694  On June - 26 birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)  

1702  On June - 26 birth of philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman  

1703  On June - 26 birth of thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)  

0363  On June - 26 flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies  

1291  Death of Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England on June - 26.  

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on June - 26.  

1631  Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies on this day in history.  

1657  On June - 26 tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65  

1661  On this day in history lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76  

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

1688  On this day in history ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies