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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 26/06
JUNE 26TH

1498 – Toothbrush invented

1843 – Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony

1960 – British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain

1960 – Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian administration

1960 – Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France

1964 – Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo

1975 – Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

1994 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years

1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1913 – Maurice Wilkes, inventor (stored program concept for computers)

1956 – Chris Isaak, Stockton Ca, rock singer/songwriter (Wicked Game)

1956 – Robert Davi, actor (License to Kill, Raw Deal, Wild Thing)

1970 – Chris O’Donnell, actor (School Ties, Robin-Batman Forever)

1974 – Derek Jeter, Pequanock NJ, shortstop (NY Yankees, Rookie of Year 1996)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1541 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.

1978 – Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed

2003 – Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)

2007 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)

2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (b. 1932)

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This Day in History 01/05

MAY 1ST

1707 – England, Wales & Scotland form United Kingdom of Great Britain

1852 – The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.

1853 – Argentina adopts its constitution

1925 – Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony

1946 – The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy

1948 – North Korea proclaims itself People’s Democratic Republic of Korea

1949 – Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)

1956 – A doctor in Japan reports an “epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system”, marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.

1961 – Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britian

1997 – Tony Blair elected Prime Minister of UK

2000 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of “a state of rebellion”, hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.

2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the “Mission Accomplished” speech, U.S. President George W. Bush declares that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended” on board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California.

2004 – Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.

2013 – A digital camera is created that can mimic insect compound eye

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1975 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)

Actress Jodhi May (1975)

1975 – Jodhi May, London, British actress (A World Apart, The Other Boleyn Girl)

1981 – Derek Asamoah, Ghanaian Footballer

FAMOUS DEATHS

1539 – Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503

1873 – David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60