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Today in History ~ June 26
Events1284 - Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away
1483 - Duke of Gloucester assumes the English Crown as King Richard III
1498 - Toothbrush invented
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, the governor of Peru and conqueror of the Inca civilization, was assassinated in Lima by his Spanish rivals.
1721 - Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
1797 - Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow
1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. of New York City on this day
1843 - Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1862 - Begining of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville VA (Meadow Bridge)
1870 - The first section of Atlantic City, N.J.'s Boardwalk was opened to the public.
1876 - Following Lt. Colonel George Custer's death, Major Marcus Reno takes command of 7th Cavalry [H]
1894 - Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1896 - 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission
1900 - Dr. Walter Reed and his medical team began a successful campaign to wipe out the deadly disease yellow fever in the Panama Canal Zone.
1906 - First Grand Prix race takes Off
1911 - Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 kph
1912 - Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1917 - The first troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during World War I.
1919 - The New York Daily News was first published.
1924 - After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
1925 - "The Gold Rush," Charlie Chaplin's classic comedy, premiered at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
1934 - FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
1936 - 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
1939 - Film censors approved "Gone With The Wind" but fined Producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for objectionable language in Rhett Butler's famous closing line to Scarlett O'Hara, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
1941 - Finland enters WW II against Russia
1941 - Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
1945 - The United Nations charter was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. [H]
1945 - The FCC began development of commercial television by allocating airwaves for 13 TV stations.
1948 - The Berlin Airlift began after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the western sector of the German city.
1949 - Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
1953 - Russian vice-premier/interior minister/intelligence chief Lavrenti Beria arrested
1959 - In a ceremony attended by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II, the St. Lawrence Seaway was officially opened, linking Atlantic Ocean with Great Lakes
1960 - British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 - Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
1963 - President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).
1964 - Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
1965 - "Mr. Tambourine Man", by The Byrds, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts
1968 - Chief U.S. Justice Earl Warren announced his intention to resign.
1968 - Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1971 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC after 2329 performances
1974 - The bar code, allowing for the electronic scanning of prices, was used for the first time on a pack of gum at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency
1976 - The CN Tower, the world's tallest free-standing structure (1,815 feet 5 inches), opened in Toronto.
1977 - 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1978 - 1st dedicated oceanographic satellite - SEASAT 1 launched
1979 - "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" was no more. Muhammad Ali announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion.
1982 - US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1984 - 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery scrubbed at T-4
1986 - A nationwide 26-day strike by 155,000 AT&T telecommunication workers, the first since the Bell System breakup in Jan. 1984, ended with a new contract agreement.
1986 - The Nicaraguan government closed the nation's last opposition newspaper, La Prensa.
1987 - Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announced his retirement, leaving a vacancy that was filled by Anthony M. Kennedy.
1989 - Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
1990 - President George Bush, who had campaigned for office on a pledge of no new taxes, conceded that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators.
1991 - A Kentucky medical examiner announced that test results showed President Zachary Taylor had died in 1850 of natural causes _ and not arsenic poisoning, as speculated by a writer. (Taylor's remains were exhumed so that tissue samples could be taken.)
1991 - 120 people drowned after an Indonesian trawler and an unidentified ship collided in the Straits of Malacca.
1992 - Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, the target of public wrath for the Rodney King beating, resigned.
1992 - Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
1992 - Navy Secretary Garrett resigned, accepting responsibility for the so-called "Tailhook" incident involving the harassment of Navy women by naval aviators.
1993 - In retaliation for an Iraqi plot to assassinated former U.S. President George Bush during his April visit to Kuwait, President Bill Clinton ordered U.S. warships to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in downtown Baghdad.
1994 - PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1995 - Gunmen ambush Egyptian pres Hosni Mubarak, during his visit to Ethiopia. Mubarak escapes unharmed
1995 - The Supreme Court ruled that public schools can require drug tests for its athletes.
1996 - The Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Academy to admit women, or forgo state support.
1996 - Former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum took the blame for the FBI files controversy; White House security chief Craig Livingstone resigned.
1996 - President Clinton and leaders of the world's other industrial powers gathered in Lyon, France, for their annual economic summit.
1997 - In a series of decisions, the Supreme Court ruled that terminally ill Americans had no constitutional right to doctor-assisted suicide, but did nothing to bar states from legalizing the process; struck down a congressional attempt to keep pornography off the Internet, saying it violated the First Amendment; let stand the president's line-item veto authority without addressing its constitutionality.
1999 - An advance contingent of Russian troops flew into Kosovo to help reopen a strategic airport and join an uneasy alliance with NATO peacekeepers.
2000 - Rival scientific teams completed the first rough map of the human genetic code after a 10-year race.
2000 - The Supreme Court gave new power to its landmark Miranda decision of 1966, ruling police still must warn the people they arrest of their "right to remain silent" when questioned.
2002 - The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the pledge of allegiance recited in schools was un- constitutional because of the phrase "under God." The ruling was stayed pending appeal.
2002 - The Securities and Exchange Commission filed fraud charges against WorldCom, the nation's second largest long-distance communications carrier.
Birthdays Today
1702 - Dr. Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist clergyman
1730 - Charles Messier, cataloguer of "M objects"
1742 - Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
1763 - George Morland, English artist
1819 - Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball
1824 - William Thomson, Lord Kelvin - engineer mathematician physicist
1854 - Sir Robert Laird Borden, (C) 8th Canadian prime minister (1911-20)
1865 - Bernard Berenson, art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance)
1885 - Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac)
1891 - Sidney Howard (playwright: screen play: Gone with the Wind)
1892 - Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938)
1898 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer
1900 - Hack (Lewis) Wilson (baseball: major-league record holder: runs batted in [190] in a season [1930]: Chicago Cubs)
1901 - Stuart Symington, (D) former U.S. senator from Missouri
1902 - William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO (Lear Jet Corp)
1904 - Peter Lorre (Loewenstein) (actor: The Maltese Falcon, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers, The Raven)
1911 - Sir Frederick Williams worked on code-breaking systems during World War II, Williams also made important contributions to the development of radar.
1913 - Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers
1914 - Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias (The outstanding female athlete of the first half-century [AP 1950]; International Women's Sports Hall of Famer, Olympic Hall of Famer, World Golf Hall of Famer, LPGA Hall of Famer, National Track and Field Hall of Famer)
1914 - Richard Maltby (bandleader: Theme from The Man with the Golden Arm, St. Louis Mambo)
1916 - Alex Dreier (newsman: ABC Radio)
1922 - Eleanor Parker (actress: The Sound of Music, Of Human Bondage, Caged, The Man with the Golden Arm, Dead on the Money)
1922 - Frances Rafferty (actress: Money Madness, Curley, Mrs. Parkington, Abbott and Costello in Hollywood)
1925 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (Voskhod 2)
1933 - Claudio Abbado, Milan Italy, composer/conductor (London Symph-1982)
1934 - Dave Grusin (composer: film scores: On Golden Pond, Heaven Can Wait, Tootsie)
1936 - Hal Greer (Basketball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia 76ers)
1940 - Billy Davis, Jr. (singer: group: The 5th Dimension: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Up Up and Away; w/Marilyn McCoo: You Don't Have to be a Star, Your Love)
1943 - Bill Robinson (baseball)
1943 - Georgie Fame (Clive Powell) (singer: The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde)
1943 - Pamela Bellwood (actress: Dynasty, Double Standard, Cellar Dweller, Deadman's Curve)
1950 - Dave Rosello (baseball)
1951 - Pamela Bellwood,
1952 - Danny Gruen (hockey)
1955 - Mick Jones, rocker
1961 - Greg LeMond, US bicyclist (Tour de France winner-1986, 1989, 1990)
1961 - Terri Nunn (singer: group: Berlin: Take My Breath Away)
1964 - Zeng Jinlian, became tallest woman known (2.46 m 8' 1")
1970 - Chris O'Donnell (actor: The Three Musketeers, Dead Poets Society, Scent of a Woman, Fried Green Tomatoes)
Famous deaths
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima [H]
1631 - Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies
1836 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer ("La Marseillaise"),
1984 - Carl Foreman, producer/writer (Born Free, High Noon), dies of cancer at 69
1993 - Roy Campanella, 3xMVP catcher (Dodgers), dies of a heart attack at 71
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