June 26
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June 26 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining after June 26 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 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.
- 1819 – The bicycle is patented.
- 1860 – In Durban, South Africa, Africa's first railway is opened.
- 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.
- 1948 – The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
- 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".
- 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 – Last concert of Elvis Presley.
- 1979 – Muhammad Ali retires.
- 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.
- 2007 – In Zheijiang, China, the Huangzhou Bay Bridge is opened.
- 2007 – Lina Hahne, a 23-year-old medical student, was crowned Miss Sweden after the original winner was dethroned.
[change] Births
- 1557 – Leandro Bassano, Italian painter (d. 1622)
- 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)
- 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist (died 1907)
- 1854 – Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
- 1865 – Bernard Berenson, art connoisseur (died 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 (died 1973)
- 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (died 1978)
- 1899 – Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna (died 1918)
- 1902 – Hugues Cuenod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
- 1904 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (died 1964)
- 1906 – Edward Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana (d. 1979)
- 1908 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile (died 1973)
- 1909 – Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (died 1997)
- 1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (died 1956)
- 1912 – Jay Silverheels, actor (died 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 (died 2003)
- 1925 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (died 1970)
- 1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
- 1934 – Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (died 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
- 1945 – Dwight York, musician, fashion consultant, cult leader and child molester
- 1951 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer
- 1951 – Juergen Ruettgers, German politician
- 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)
- 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
- 1973 – Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer
- 1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball 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
- 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
[change] Deaths
- 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)
- 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 (born 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 (born 1878)
- 1958 – Andrija Štampar, physician and United Nations diplomat (born 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)
- 2003 – Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., husband of Margaret Thatcher (born 1915)
- 2003 – Strom Thurmond, United States Senator (born 1902)
- 2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (born 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 (born 1932)
[change] Observances
- Independence Day in Madagascar
