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  On June - 26 martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93   

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

1959  Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway on June - 26.   

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

1961  Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1962  Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill on this day in history.   

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  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 June - 26.   

1971  Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91 on this day in history.   

1972  On this day in history david Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61   

1973  Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1974  Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton) on June - 26.   

1975  On this day in history 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 June - 26.   

1977  42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn on June - 26.   

1977  On June - 26 lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43   

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

1978  On this day in history first dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched   

1978  On June - 26 rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed   

1979  On June - 26 charles Clore, financier, dies   

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  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on June - 26.   

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

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent was born on June - 26.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1703  Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767) was born on June - 26.   

0363  Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies on this day in history.   

1291  Death of Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England on this day in history.   

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on this day in history.   

1631  On June - 26 justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies   

1657  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on June - 26.   

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.