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On The Way To Today... June 26th
1284 - The Pied Piper lured 130 children of Hamelin away and they were never seen again.
1483 - Richard III of England began his rule, after deposing his nephew Edward V. Edward and his brother Richard were later murdered.
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, was assassinated in his palace in Lima.
1794 - The Austrians were defeated by the French at Fleurus, halting their conquest of Belgium.
1819 - W.K. Clarkson of New York City patented the bicycle.
1843 - Hong Kong was proclaimed a British crown colony with Sir Henry Pottinger as its first governor.
1858 - The Treaty of Tientsin was signed, ending hostilities between China and Great Britain and granting the latter trade rights.
1870 - The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was opened to the public.
1897 - Thomas Lynch and John Heydler were both umpires in a baseball doubleheader in Washington, D.C., and both of these umpires went on to become a president of the National League.
1900 - A commission which included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against the deadly yellow fever disease.
1906 - The first grand prix motor race was held, over two days at Le Mans, France.
1919 - The New York Daily News was first published.
1933 - "The Kraft Music Hall" debuted, and turned out to be one of the longest-running hits on radio. The first program featured Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. After its debut, singer Al Jolson took over as host. Several years later, siner Bing Crosby became the host. Until 1949 "The Kraft Music Hall" aired NBC radio before moving on to television for several more years. For its first year it was "Milton Berle Starring in the Kraft Music Hall", then "Kraft Music Hall Presents: The Dave King Show" followed by "Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall" for four seasons. However, from 1967 on, "The Kraft Music Hall" alway had a different host.
1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit Union Act, which enabled the creation of credit unions anywhere in the US. Credit unions, unlike banks, are non-profit cooperatives owned and controlled by their members. The Act was part of Roosevelt's New Deal program to assist people of small means.
1945 - The Charter of the United Nations (UN) was signed in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations. The preamble of the Charter stated the mission of the UN: "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war...to reaffirm faith in the dignity and worth of the human person...and to promote social progress and better standards of life."
1949 - Entertainer Fred Allen ended his radio career to make the transition to television. His final guest on radio was old friend, Jack Benny. Allen’s caustic wit didn’t come off well on television and his career didn't last long. Benny on the other hand went on to become a legend on television.
1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed actress Lee Remick as his 500th and final guest on "Person to Person." Hours before the interview broadcast, Murrow presented his last news broadcast on the CBS Radio Network. Reportedly, CBS-TV made $20 million from Murrow’s "Person to Person" series.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II and President Eisenhower.
1960 - The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar became independent from France as the Malagasy Republic.
1960 - British Somaliland became independent and five days later merged with Italian Somaliland to become the Somali Republic.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy stirred the world when he pronounced at the Berlin Wall: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner). The Berlin Wall had been erected by the Soviet Union to stop the mass exodus of people fleeing East Berlin for West Berlin and the non-Communist world. The wall, the clearest symbol of the cold war, was taken down in 1989.
1964 - The album, "A Hard Day’s Night," was released on United Artists Records. The album featured original material by The Beatles and became the United States' top album by July 25, 1964.
1965 - The Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" reached the number one spot on pop music charts. The song was considered to be the first folk-rock hit. The song was penned by Bob Dylan, as were two other hits for the group: "All I Really Want to Do" and "My Back Pages." The group consisting of James Roger McGinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Mike Clarke charted seven hits. In 1991, The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency and arrested hundreds of political opponents.
1976 - A devastating earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia's Irian Jaya province; estimates of the death toll varied from 400 to 9,000.
1976 - In Toronto, Canada, the completed CN Tower opened. Sixty-three million dollars and 1,537 people were needed to finish the tallest free standing structure and building in the world. The CN, Canadian National, Tower, including the 335 foot (102 meters), steel broadcasting antenna, is 1,815 feet, 5 inches tall (553.33 meters). From the antenna, sixteen Toronto television and FM radio stations broadcast their signals.
1977 - After 117 years of French rule, the East African state of Djibouti became independent.
1978 - South Yemeni President Salim Rubai Ali was overthrown and executed.
1979 - At the age of 37, Muhammad Ali announced he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion. The fighter said, "Everything gets old, and you can’t go on like years ago."
1981 - Virginia Campbell took her clipped coupons and rebates and went to buy some groceries at a supermarket in Mountain Home, Idaho. Checkers totaled some $24,460 worth of groceries, but Campbell didn't pay as much as you might expect. She paid only 67 cents! It was said she would have received a refund of $12.97, but she decided to get film and flashbulbs after the bill was totaled.
1985 - Wilbur Snapp, an organist, was "ejected" from a baseball game at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, home of the Philadelphia Phillies during spring training; a Class A League team uses the stadium the rest of the season. Snapp played "Three Blind Mice" after a call by umpire Keith O’Connor who was not amused. O'Connor saw to it that Snapp missed the rest of the game.
1985 - The album, "Big River," was the frist cast soundtrack to be recorded in Nashville, Tennesse. Later the album became the first Tony Award-winning cast album. The album was released on MCA records.
1987 - The movie, "Dragnet," starring Dan Aykroyd as Sergeant Joe Friday; and Tom Hanks as detective Stribeck, opened in the United States. The movie became the first in Hollywood to feature a "condom-conscious" love scene. "Dragnet" was a hit, just as it had been on radio and television in the 1940s and ’50s.
1988 - An Airbus A320 crashed after making a low pass over an air show in eastern France, killing three.
1989 - A Soviet nuclear submarine carrying atomic weapons was crippled off the coast of Norway when a pipe burst in its reactor.
1989 - The Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty may be imposed for murderers who committed their crimes as young as age 16 and for mentally retarded killers as well.
1991 - British appeal court judges cleared the Maguire Seven, jailed in 1976, of IRA bomb charges.
1995 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survived an assassination bid unscathed when gunmen sprayed bullets at his armored limousine in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
1996 - Afghan guerrilla leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returned to Kabul and took over as prime minister.
1998 - The Supreme Court issued a landmark sexual harassment ruling, putting employers on notice that they can be held responsible for supervisors' misconduct even if they knew nothing about it.
Born On This Day... June 26th
1819
Abner Doubleday
baseball d: 1893
1854
Sir Robert Laird Borden
Canadian statesman, prime minister d: 1937
1891
Sidney Howard
playwright d: 1939
1892
Pearl S. Buck
Nobel Prize-winning author d: 1973
1900
Hack [Lewis Robert] Wilson
baseball d: 1948
1904
Peter Lorre [Laszlo Loewenstein]
actor d: 1964
1909
Col. Tom Parker
carnival barker, show business promoter d: 1997
1910
Roy Plunkett
scientist, discovered Teflon d: 1994
1914
Babe [Mildred] Didrikson Zaharias
Track and Field Hall of Famer d: 1956
1914
Richard Maltby
bandleader d: 1991
1915
Charlotte Zolotow
author
1916
Alex Dreier
radio reporter, newscaster d: 2000
1919
Jay Silverheels [Harold J. Smith]
actor d: 1980
1922
Eleanor Parker
actress
1922
Frances Rafferty
actress
1933
Claudio Abbado
conductor
1934
Dave Grusin
composer
1936
Hal Greer
Basketball Hall of Famer
1939
Charles Robb
U.S. Senator
1940
Billy Davis, Jr.
singer
1942
Larry Taylor
musician, bassist
1943
Pamela Bellwood
actress
1943
Bill [William Henry] Robinson
baseball
1943
Georgie Fame [Clive Powell]
singer
1950
Dave [Rodriguez] Rosello
baseball
1951
Pamela Bellwood
actress
1952
Steve [Stephen Shaddon] Bowling
baseball
1952
Danny Gruen
hockey
1955
Mick Jones
musician, guitarist, singer
1956
Chris Isaak
actor
1961
Terri Nunn
singer
1971
Greg LaMond
cyclist
1970
Sean Hayes
actor
1970
Chris O’Donnell
actor
1974
Derek Jeter
baseball
1980
Jason Schwartzman
actor
AYE ME! i cant believe derek jeter was born on my b-day! YAY! *he is my fav player on my fav baseball team! how cool!*
in case anyone cares, june 26th is my b-day. if anyone wants to check out what their info like this is...http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/
click where it says 'today in history' and then you can put in your own birthdate. when you are done reading that, there is another link at the bottom of that page that says 'who was born on this date?' and just have fun with that! :D later sexy gators.