26 June

Georg Brandt
26 June 1694 – 29 April 1768
Swedish chemist who discovered the element Cobalt (1735). » more

Charles Messier
26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817
French astronomer. » more

Branwell Brontë
26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848
English artist and brother of the Brontë sisters. Paintings can be seen in the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, England. » more

William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907
English physicist. Arrogantly announced in 1900 “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now”. » more

George Herbert
26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923
English financier who underwrote the discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt (1922). » more

Pearl S. Buck
26 June 1892 — 6 March 1973
American author and winner of Pulitzer (‘The Good Earth’) and Nobel prizes. » more

Colonel Tom Parker
26 June 1909 – 21 January 1997
Dutch born American manager of Elvis Presley. Parker’s management style re-defined the role of a star’s manager and Presley acknowledged his management contributed to his success. » more

Maurice Wilkes
26 June 1913
English computer scientist who developed the concept of microprogramming. » more

Today’s Quote
So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.’
… Steve Jobs (Apple Computers)

Today’s No. 1 Hit
1980 – Coming Up by Paul McCartney.

Today’s events
26 June 1284 – Origin of the Pied Piper legend is born, with 130 children being led out of Hamelin (Germany).
26 June 1857 – The first Victoria Crosses are awarded in London.
26 June 1909 – The Science Museum in London formally established.
26 June 1915 – Willis Carrier and partners set up their air conditioning business.
26 June 1945 – Signing of the United Nations Charter (San Francisco).
26 June 1974 – A packet of Wrigley’s chewing gum is the first Bar Code scan in a supermarket (in U.S.A.).