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Birthday June 26, 1702 Dr. Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist clergyman |
Birthday June 26, 1730 Charles Messier, cataloguer of "M objects" |
Birthday June 26, 1742 Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence |
Birthday June 26, 1763 George Morland, English artist |
Birthday June 26, 1819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball |
Birthday June 26, 1824 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin - engineer, mathematician, physicist |
Birthday June 26, 1854 Sir Robert Laird Borden, (C), 8th Canadian prime minister (1911-20) |
Birthday June 26, 1892 Pearl S. Buck, author (The Good Earth) (Nobel 1938) |
Birthday June 26, 1901 Stuart Symington, (D), former U.S. senator from Missouri |
Birthday June 26, 1904 Peter Lorre, Actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers) |
Birthday June 26, 1911 Babe Didrikson born |
Birthday June 26, 1913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers |
Birthday June 26, 1922 Eleanor Parker, Actress |
Birthday June 26, 1925 Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (Voskhod 2) |
Birthday June 26, 1940 Billy Davis, singer |
Birthday June 26, 1951 Pamela Bellwood |
Birthday June 26, 1955 Mick Jones, rocker |
Birthday June 26, 1964 Zeng Jinlian, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8' 1") |
History June 26, 1483 Richard III usurps the English throne |
History June 26, 1541 Conqueror of the Incas assassinated |
History June 26, 1784 Delaware Patriot Caesar Rodney dies |
History June 26, 1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow |
History June 26, 1807 Lightning strikes in Luxembourg |
History June 26, 1844 President John Tyler weds his second wife |
History June 26, 1862 Rebels strike Union at the Battle of Mechanicsville |
History June 26, 1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens |
History June 26, 1876 Custer's Last Stand |
History June 26, 1876 Reno takes command of 7th Cavalry |
History June 26, 1892 Pearl Buck's birthday |
History June 26, 1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever |
History June 26, 1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 kph |
History June 26, 1917 First U.S. troops arrive in France |
History June 26, 1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during WW I |
History June 26, 1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published |
History June 26, 1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing Credit Unions |
History June 26, 1940 Turkey declares nonbelligerency |
History June 26, 1945 U.N. Charter signed |
History June 26, 1945 U.N. Charter is signed |
History June 26, 1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF |
History June 26, 1948 Berlin Airlift begins |
History June 26, 1948 US responses to Soviet blockade of Berlin |
History June 26, 1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury |
History June 26, 1956 Congress approves Federal Highway Act |
History June 26, 1957 A serial killer preys upon a woman out for a drive |
History June 26, 1959 St Lawrence Seaway opens - linking Atlantic Ocean with Great Lakes |
History June 26, 1959 St. Lawrence Seaway opened |
History June 26, 1959 Pres Eisenhower joins Queen Elizabeth opening St Lawrence Seaway |
History June 26, 1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day) |
History June 26, 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain |
History June 26, 1963 Kennedy claims solidarity with the people of Berlin |
History June 26, 1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin `Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)' |
History June 26, 1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album |
History June 26, 1965 Westmoreland given authority to commit U.S. forces |
History June 26, 1968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US |
History June 26, 1972 U.S. aircraft shifted to Thailand |
History June 26, 1975 Sonny and Cher's divorce becomes final |
History June 26, 1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency |
History June 26, 1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn |
History June 26, 1978 1st dedicated oceanographic satellite - SEASAT 1 launched |
History June 26, 1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces |
History June 26, 1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery scrubbed at T-4 |
History June 26, 1987 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn |
History June 26, 1993 Clinton punishes Iraq for plot to kill Bush |
History June 26, 1998 Gone with the Wind re-released in United States |
History June 26, 2003 Former U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond dies |
History June 26, 2012 Nora Ephron, director of When Harry Met Sally, dies |