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What Happened on June 26th This Day in History

Year	Name
2015	Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.[7]
2015	The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2013	Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
2013	The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2012	The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
2008	A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
2007	Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
2006	Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2003	The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2000	The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
1997	The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1997	J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in United Kingdom.
1995	Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
1991	Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1988	The first crash of an Airbus A320 occurs when Air France Flight 296Q crashes at Mulhouse–Habsheim Airfield in Habsheim, France, during an air show, killing three of the 136 people on board.
1981	Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish.
1978	Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
1977	Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
1975	Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1974	The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
1967	Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1963	Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
1960	The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
1960	Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1959	Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
1955	The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
1953	Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
1952	The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
1948	Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.
1948	William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1948	Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1945	The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
1944	World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
1944	World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
1942	The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
1941	World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1940	World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1936	Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1934	United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1927	The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1924	The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
1918	World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
1917	World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
1909	The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1906	The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
1889	Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
1886	Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
1857	The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1848	End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1843	Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
1830	William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
1794	French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
1740	A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1723	After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1718	Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1579	Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
1541	Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1522	Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
1483	Richard III becomes King of England.
1460	Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
1409	Western Schism: The Roman 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 XIII in Avignon.
1407	Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
1295	Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
1243	Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
699	En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
684	Pope Benedict II is chosen.
363	Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire.
221	Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
4	Augustus adopts Tiberius.

Famous People Born on June 26

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Year	Name
1952	Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist (d. 1979)
1866	George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and banker (d. 1923)
1971	Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
1957	Philippe Couillard, Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st Premier of Quebec
1928	Jacob Druckman, American composer and academic (d. 1996)
1922	Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
1796	Jan Paweł Lelewel, Polish painter and engineer (d. 1847)
1943	Georgie Fame, English singer, pianist, and keyboard player
1839	Sam Watkins, American soldier and author (d. 1901)
1936	Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)

Famous People Deaths On June 26

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Date	Name
1688	Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher and academic (b. 1617)
1856	Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (b. 1806)
116	Ptolemy VIII, king of Egypt
2011	Edith Fellows, American actress (b. 1923)
1090	Jaromír, bishop of Prague
1947	R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1574	Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (b. 1530)
405	Vigilius, bishop of Trent (b. 353)
1964	Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian businessman (b. 1889)
1949	Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)