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Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Jun 01 Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89 
Jun 02 Alan Dewitt, actor (Mr Tyler-It's About Time), dies at 52
Jun 03 Queen's Bhoemian Rhapsody goes gold.
Jun 03 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta.
Jun 04 Canada declares 370 km (200 nautical mile) offshore fisheries jurisdiction zone, effective Jan 1, 1977.
Jun 05 Jean Paul Getty, US oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83.
Jun 05 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
Jun 06 J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 in London
Jun 07 Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orch leader (Air time '57), dies at 61
Jun 09 James A Farley, US Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88.
Jun 10 67000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome.
Jun 10 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/US fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103.
Jun 12 The Navy phased out the last C-117 (Douglas DC-3), perhaps the most famous transport plane of all time. The last C-117 was flown from Pensacola to Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, the boneyard for obsolete military aircraft
Jun 13 Don Bolles, US journalist (against Arizona), dies
Jun 14 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication).
Jun 16 Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed.
Jun 16 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa.
Jun 19 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
Jun 23 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
Jun 25 Johnny Mercer, US songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66.
Jun 28 Stanley Baker, actor (Accident, Guns of Navarone), dies at 49.
Jun 29 Leonora Summers, entertainer, dies.
Jun 29 Seychelles gains independence from Britain
Jun 30 A Naval Aviator tradition came to an end when brown shoes were stricken from the officers' and chiefs' uniforms. The tradition initially distinguished the Brown Shoe Navy of the aviators from the black shoes of the surface officers.
Jul 01 Kenneth Gibson, is inaugural black president of US Conference of Mayors
Jul 02 Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam
Jul 02 Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies at 73.
Jul 02 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
Jul 03 103 hostages were rescued by an Israeli commando unit in a raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. 106 hostages had been taken from a hijacked Air France airliner on its way to Paris from Tel Aviv. Seven pro-Palestinian guerrilla hijackers, 20 Ugandan soldiers and 3 hostages were killed in the raid
Jul 03 Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
Jul 03 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers.
Jul 06 inaugural women enter Naval Academy.
Jul 06 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
Jul 07 Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76.
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