About the day » Tuesday June 26, 1979Calender converter

• Ettha Spriensma, Oldehove, Nederland († 1993)
• Klaas de Beurs, Den Helder
• Bendy van de Kaa, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 1979)
• Froukje Jeltje Alkema, Marrum
• Jan de Beurs, Den Helder
• Marjoleine Alexandra de Haan, Stede Broec, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Benjamin Floyd Hollingsworth (69)
• Bridget Geraldine Begley (28)
• Anna Maria BAETEN (83), Opglabbeek
• "Raymond" Marie Joseph Edouard de Roquefeuil (56), Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
• Adrianus Franciscus van de Klundert (78), Tilburg
• Antonia Bijl (78)
• Augustinus Johannes Antonius VINKESTEIJN (82), Den Haag, ZH, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Mooijman (81), Sassenheim
• Augustinus Johannes Antonius (Guus) Vinkesteijn (82), Den Haag, Nederland
• Alt Liemburg (71), Noordbergum

• 1977 » Quincy Lewis, American basketball player
• 1979 » Ryō Fukuda, Japanese race car driver
• 1979 » Ryan Tedder, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1979 » Walter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
• 1980 » Chris Shelton, American baseball player
• 1980 » Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros, Togolese footballer
• 1980 » Jason Schwartzman, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
• 1980 » Michael Jackson, English footballer
• 1980 » Michael Vick, American football player
• 1981 » Natalya Antyukh, Russian sprinter and hurdler

• 1964 » Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian businessman (b. 1889)
• 1967 » Françoise Dorléac, French actress and singer (b. 1942)
• 1975 » Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian soldier and politician, 3rd Head of State of Ghana (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Howard Charles Green, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Public Works (b. 1895)
• 1990 » Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (b. 1909)
• 1992 » Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (b. 1921)
• 1993 » Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
• 1993 » William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and activist (b. 1929)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Richard
11. Michael
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Erik
15. Gerrit
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Wendy
3. Marieke
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Sandra
7. Johanna
8. Linda
9. Vanessa
10. Judith
11. Monique
12. Esther
13. Jessica
14. Patricia
15. Jennifer
16. Petra

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• March 19 » The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
• April 1 » Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
• April 6 » Student protests break out in Nepal.
• July 16 » Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
• August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
• November 17 » Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.

The temperature on June 26, 1979 was between 10.1 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.