June 26
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June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 4 – Roman Emperor Augustus adopts Tiberius.
- 221 – Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir.
- 363 – Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Troops on the battlefield proclaim Jovian Emperor.
- 684 – Benedict II becomes Pope.
- 1409 – Western Schism: The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
- 1483 – Richard III becomes king of England.
- 1492 – Mont Aiguille, in the Western Alps in France is climbed for the first time by Antoine de Ville.
- 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima.
- 1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (son of Peter I of Russia) dies mysteriously after his father sentenced him to death for plotting against him. (occurred on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar)
- 1723 – After a siege, and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
- 1740 – A combined force of Spanish, free Blacks, and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine, Florida in the War of Jenkins' Ear.
- 1819 – The bicycle is patented.
- 1830 – King George IV of the United Kingdom dies. His brother succeeds him as William IV of the United Kingdom.
- 1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 1857 – First Investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
- 1860 – In Durban, South Africa, Africa's first railway is opened.
- 1879 – Egypt sells its parts of the Suez Canal to the United Kingdom.
- 1905 – A telegram is sent to Iceland for the first time, from Cornwall.
- 1920 – Antonio Maria da Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
- 1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- 1934 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- 1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
- 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed.
- 1945 – In Germany, the CDU political party is founded.
- 1948 – The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
- 1954 – The FIFA World Cup's most goal-filled match occurs in Lausanne, Switzerland, as the Austria national football team wins 7-5 against the Switzerland national football team.
- 1959 – Ingemar Johansson of Sweden becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion when he defeats Floyd Patterson.
- 1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
- 1960 – Former British Protectorate of Somaliland (British Somaliland) gains its independence.
- 1960 – Madagascar becomes independent from France.
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" at a speech in Berlin.
- 1964 – The Beatles release the album A Hard Day's Night.
- 1973 – On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
- 1974 – The first retail product (a pack of chewing gum) was sold using a barcode reader.
- 1975 – Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India.
- 1976 – The CN Tower in Toronto is officially opened.
- 1977 – The last concert of Elvis Presley takes place.
- 1978 – Air Canada Flight 221 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine.
- 1979 – Muhammad Ali retires.
- 1991 – The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia and Croatia.
- 1995 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survives an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani becomes Emir of Qatar after deposing his father, Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani in a bloodless coup.
- 1996 – Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot dead in Dublin, Ireland.
- 1997 – Bertie Ahern becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
- 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment.
- 1997 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.), the first book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.
- 2000 – Human Genome Project: The completion of the first rough map of the human genetic code is announced.
- 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
- 2006 – East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigns after weeks of political unrest.
- 2007 – In Zheijiang, China, the Huangzhou Bay Bridge is opened.
- 2007 – Lina Hahne, a 23-year-old medical student, is crowned Miss Sweden after the original winner was dethroned.
Births [change]
- 1501 – Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator and poet (d. 1572)
- 1557 – Leandro Bassano, Italian painter (d. 1622)
- 1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
- 1582 – Johannes Schultz, German composer (d. 1653)
- 1653 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (d. 1743)
- 1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
- 1741 – John Langdon, American politician (d. 1819)
- 1786 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855)
- 1817 – Branwell Bronte, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
- 1819 – Abner Doubleday, American major general (d. 1893)
- 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist (d. 1907)
- 1839 – Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and author (d. 1901)
- 1854 – Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
- 1865 – Bernard Berenson, art connoisseur (d. 1959)
- 1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
- 1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1973)
- 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
- 1899 – Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna (d. 1918)
- 1902 – Hugues Cuenod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
- 1903 – Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer-songwriter (d. 1958)
- 1904 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964)
- 1906 – Edward Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana (d. 1979)
- 1908 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
- 1909 – Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
- 1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (d. 1956)
- 1912 – Jay Silverheels, actor (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Aime Cesaire, French-Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
- 1913 – Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010)
- 1914 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (d. 1991)
- 1916 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Richard Neustadt, political historian (d. 2003)
- 1925 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)
- 1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
- 1934 – Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
- 1934 – Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
- 1936 – Robert Maclennan, British politician
- 1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist
- 1938 – Neil Abercrombie, American politician, Governor of Hawaii
- 1942 – Gilberto Gil, first Minister of Culture of Brazil, singer, songwriter and musician
- 1944 – Wolfgang Weber, German footballer
- 1945 – Dwight York, musician, fashion consultant, cult leader and child molester
- 1947 – Peter Sloterdijk, German philosopher
- 1948 – Sergei Bodrov, Russian director, screenwriter and producer
- 1951 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer
- 1951 – Juergen Ruettgers, German politician
- 1954 – Luis Arconada, Basque-Spanish footballer
- 1954 – Steve Barton, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2001)
- 1955 – Mick Jones, British musician, guitarist with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite
- 1956 – Chris Isaak, American pop singer
- 1957 – Pietro Paolo Virdis, Italian footballer
- 1961 – Greg Lemond, cyclist
- 1961 – Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
- 1962 – Ollanta Humala, President of Peru
- 1963 – Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian CEO of YUKOS Oil Company
- 1968 – Rich Eisen, American ESPN SportsCenter anchor
- 1968 – Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator
- 1968 – Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
- 1969 – Colin Greenwood, musician, Radiohead
- 1970 – Chris O'Donnell, American actor
- 1972 – Jussi Sydanmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- 1973 – Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer
- 1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player
- 1976 – Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 – Chad Pennington, American football player
- 1977 – Kubo Tite, cartoonist
- 1980 – Jason Schwartzman, American actor
- 1980 – Michael Vick, American football player
- 1981 – Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer
- 1983 – Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
- 1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer
- 1992 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
- 2005 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
Deaths [change]
- 363 – Julian, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331)
- 1291 – Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III of England
- 1541 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered)
- 1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (b. 1690), died on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar
- 1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
- 1830 – King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
- 1836 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (b. 1706)
- 1856 – Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
- 1878 – Mercedes of Orleans, Queen of Spain (b. 1860)
- 1918 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843)
- 1922 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1841)
- 1939 – Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
- 1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1868)
- 1947 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
- 1949 – Kim Gu, Korean politician (b. 1876)
- 1955 – Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895)
- 1956 – Clifford Brown, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1930)
- 1957 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
- 1958 – Andrija Štampar, physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
- 1958 – George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
- 1964 – Gerrit Rietveld, architect (b. 1888)
- 1975 – St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (b. 1902)
- 1990 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (b. 1909)
- 1993 – William H. Riker, political scientist (b. 1920)
- 1996 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
- 1997 – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (born 1959)
- 2002 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
- 2002 – Arnold Brown, 11th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Strom Thurmond, United States Senator (b. 1902)
- 2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975)
- 2004 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
- 2005 – Richard Whiteley, British game show host (b. 1943)
- 2007 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer (b. 1929)
- 2007 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and manager (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian President (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (b. 1948)
- 2012 – Nora Ephron, American writer, screenwriter and film director (b. 1941)
Observances [change]
- Independence Day in Madagascar
- Flag Day (Romania)
- Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan)
- International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
- International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
