Historical Events In June - 26

1958  Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed) on June - 26.   

1958  On June - 26 gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium   

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

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

1959  Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway on this day in history.   

1959  Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title on June - 26.   

1959  On this day in history audley Miller, cricketer (Test for England 1896), dies   

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

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 June - 26.   

1962  On this day in history blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill   

1963  Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) on June - 26.   

1963  Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian govt on this day in history.   

1963  On this day in history obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies   

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  Errol Hunte, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930), dies on June - 26.   

1968  On this day in history iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US   

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 June - 26 arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59   

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

1975  Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency on June - 26.   

1975  On this day in history 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  42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn on June - 26.   

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  On June - 26 first dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched   

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

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

1981  Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies on June - 26.   

1982  A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521 on June - 26.   

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1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1681  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) was born on this day in history.   

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

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  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 this day in history.   

1631  On this day in history justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies   

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

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

1666  On June - 26 richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies   

1688  Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies on June - 26.