Top Historical Events That Happened on June 26

1958  Gaston Eyskens is recorded as becoming premier of Belgium.   

1958  Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93.   

1959  Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ.   

1959  Queen Elizabeth and Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway   

1959  Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title   

1959  Audley Miller, cricketer (Test for England 1896), dies.   

1960  British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain.   

1960  Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day).   

1960  John Brenden Kelly, rower (Olympic-gold-1920, 24), dies at 70   

1961  Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58   

1962  Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill   

1963  Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)   

1963  Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian govt.   

1963  Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies   

1964  Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album.   

1965  Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82.   

1967  Errol Hunte, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930), dies.   

1968  Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US.   

1971  Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91.   

1972  David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61.   

1973  Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59.   

1974  Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton).   

1975  Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency   

1975  Indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud.   

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

1977  42 die in fire inmate leads to at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn.   

1977  Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43.   

1978  Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France   

1978  inaugural dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched   

1978  Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed   

1979  Charles Clore, financier, dies.   

1981  Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies   

1982  A Gilmore and P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521   

1982  Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig   

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1575  Anne catherine of brandenburg: Queen of denmark and norway   

1582  Johannes schultz: Composer   

1655  Jean deutz: Merchant/amsterdam regent   

1681  Hedwig sophia: Duchess of holstein-gottorp, swedish writer   

1689  Edward holyoke: American academic   

1694  Georg brandt: Swedish chemist and mineralogist   

1702  Philip doddridge: England, dr/nonconformist clergyman   

1703  Thomas clap: American academic   

0363  Flavius c julianus: [apostata], emperor of rome (361-63),   

1291  Death of Eleanor of provence: Wife of henry iii of england   

1541  Francisco pizarro: Spanish conqueror of peru, assassinated in lima   

1631  Justinus van nassau: Ltalian admiral (armada),   

1657  Death of Tobias michael: Composer,   

1661  Death of Lazaro valvasensi: Composer,   

1666  Death of Richard fanshawe: Diplomat/translator/poet,   

1688  Ralph cudworth: Philospher/cleric,