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June 26

Take your Dog to Work Day

1284 The Pied Pipper incident

1498 The Toothbrush is invented

1927 Coney Island the lineups start for roller coaster The Cyclone

1960 Madagascar gain independence from France

1964 The album A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles is released

1977 Elvis Presley plays his last concert in Indianapolis

1978 Toronto Air Canada Flight 189 crashes in the Etobicoke Creek ravine

1979 The Moonracker 11th James Bond film premiers

1988 The film Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy, James Earl Jones, Arsenio Hall & Samuel L. Jackson

1998 Out of Sight opens in theaters directed by Steven Soderbergh starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames & Samuel L. Jackson

Happy Birthday

1928 Yoshiro Nakamatsu inventor



1935 Dwight York singer

1955 Mick Jones musician the bands The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite



1956 Chris Isaak musician



1969 Colin Greenwood in the band Radiohead



1960 Irv Gotti producer co founder of Murder Inc. Reconds



1980 Jason Schwartzman actor in the films Rushmore, Slackers

1993 Ariana Grande singer


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_26

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/today-in-music-history/?history_day=26&history_month=6http://www.profightdb.com/this-day-in-history/06-25-2010.html

http://www.onthisday.com/events/june/26

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