26th
June, on this day
363 Roman Emperor
Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire.
General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1284 The day, according to legend, when the 'Pied
Piper' re-appeared in the German town of Hamelin. After ridding
the town of rats the townspeople refused to pay him. So he began playing
his pipe and 130 children from the town followed him into a cave in
Koppenburg Mountain which he then sealed
1402 Battle
of Casalecchio
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 XII in Avignon.
1483 Richard, Duke of Gloucester, becomes King
Richard III of England. His nephew, the deposed King Edward V
and Edward's brother, Richard Duke of York are murdered in the Tower
of London
1541 Francisco
Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion
and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Diego is later caught
and executed.
1718 Tsarevich
Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously
dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against
him.
1723 After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons Baku surrendered
to Russians.
1797 Charles
Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to
farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
1848 End of the June
Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 The first investiture ceremony for Victoria
Cross winners takes place in Hyde Park, London. Queen Victoria
personally awards 62 servicemen with Britain's highest military honour
1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia
1862 Day 2 of the 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville
1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday
in the United States.
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow
Fever
1906 The first official motor racing grand prix, the French Grand
Prix, is run at Le Mans with Hungarian Ferenc Szisz, driving a Renault,
the winner with an average speed of 63mph
1909 In London, the
Victoria & Albert Museum opens to the public
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game)
1917 World War I: King George V of England drops the German titles
from the British Royal Family and changes their surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
to Windsor. The name Battenberg is also changed to Mountbatten
1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I
1918 Battle
for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James
Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown
Prince.
1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published
1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Domincan Republic
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions
1937 Britain's Duke of Windsor marries American divorcee Wallis Simpson
in France following his abdication from the throne as Edward VIII
1939 Britain's first National Serviceman, Private Rupert Alexander,
signs up for the Middlesex Regiment. His service number: 10000001
1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
1940 Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring
it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia
1945 UN
Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin. The Western allies start
an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
1948 William
Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor,
the first bipolar junction transistor.
1949 Walter
Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
1957 Hurricane Audrey strikes Louisiana claiming 500 lives
1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower open the St Lawrence
Seaway
1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am
a Berliner)
1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
1968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1973 On Plesetsk
Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M
rocket.
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
1974 British actor Richard
Burton divorces his wife, actress Elizabeth
Taylor
1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
1976 The CN
Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world,
was opened.
1977 The Yorkshire
Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds,
changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim
who was not a prostitute
1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia,
Tenn
1978 Air
Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into
the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers onboard died.
1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT
1, launched
1982 Marie
Osmond marries Steve Craig
1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal
from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4s
1989 Melanie
Griffith and Don
Johnson marry for the 2nd time
1991 After campaigning to prove their innocence for 15 years, the
'Maguire
Seven' are cleared by the Court of Appeal of running an IRA bomb
factory in England
1993 The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence
headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against
former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1995 Hamad
bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani,
the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
1996 Irish Journalist Veronica
Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of
Dublin
1997 Dresses belonging to Diana, Princess of Wales are auctioned for
more than £2million in New York
2006 The Republic
of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.
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26th
June 2006
Demands
set for captured Israeli
Alarm
at Europe cocaine use rise
Buffett
donates $37bn to charity
26th June
2007
Nato
urges calm in Russia dispute
CIA
releases past secrets on site
Galapagos
put on UN danger list
26th June
2008
N
Korea hands over nuclear data
Many
killed in Iraqi bomb attacks
Internet
overhaul wins approval
26th June
2009
World
mourns pop icon Jackson
Bomb
blast at Baghdad market
Pakistan
troops killed in Kashmir
26th June 2010
11
Senegal football fans killed in terrace collapse
'US
drone' kills 4 in Pakistan
3D
mission returns pictures
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Birthdates which
occurred on 26th June :
1702 Dr Philip
Doddridge England, nonconformist clergyman
1730 Charles Messier cataloguer of "M objects"
1742 Arthur Middleton signer Declaration of Independence
1763 George Morland England, artist of rural landscapes
1819 Abner Doubleday credited with inventing American baseball
1824 William Thomson Lord Kelvin, engineer/mathematician/physicist
1854 Sir Robert Laird Borden (C), 8th Canadian PM (1911-20)
1865 Bernard Berenson art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance)
1887 Anthony G de Rothschild Britain, philanthropist
1892 Hubert Julian (Jay) Stowitts the first American star in the Russian
ballet, and Anna Pavlova's only American partner
1892 Pearl S Buck China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938)
1893 Big Bill Broonzy Miss, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy)
1894 Bill Wirges Buffalo NY, orch leader (Growing Paynes)
19-- Travis Fine actor (Ike McSwain-The Young Riders)
1901 Stuart Symington (Sen-D-Mo)
1902 Antonia Brico Rotterdam Holland, conductor/pianist (Antonia)
1903 Floyd "Babe" Herman Brooklyn Dodgers' slugger (.324
lifetime average)
1904 Peter Lorre actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers)
1909 Col Tom Parker Elvis Presley's manager
1911 Edward Levi professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning)
1913 Maurice Wilkes inventor (stored program concept for computers)
1914 Richard Maltby orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1914 Wolfgang Windgassen Annemasse Germany, tenor (Stuttgart Opera)
1916 Alex Dreier Honolulu Hawaii, newscaster (Whats it all about World?)
1922 Eleanor Parker Ohio, actress (Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker)
1922 Frances Rafferty Sioux City Iowa, actress (December Bride)
1925 Pavel Belyayev USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod 2)
1928 Jacob Druckman Philadelphia, composer (Animus I Auerole)
1933 Claudio Abbado Milan Italy, conductor (London Symph-1982)
1933 Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Calif, actor (Happy Days, Karate
Kid)
1933 Pat Morita Calif, actor (Arnold-Happy Days, Karate Kid)
1934 John V Tunney (Rep/Sen-D-Calif)
1939 Charles Robb (Sen-D-Va)/husband of Lynda Bird Johnson
1940 Billy Davis Jr St Louis Mo, singer (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
1942 Larry Taylor rocker (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
1943 Georgie Fame rocker (Get Away, Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde)
1946 Clive Francis London England, actor (Masada)
1951 Pamela Bellwood NYC, actress (Ellen-W.E.B., Claudia-Dynasty)
1954 Robert Davi actor (Raw Deal)
1955 Mick Jones rocker (Big Audio Dynamite-Tighten Up)
1960 Barbara Edwards Albuqueque NM, playmate of the year (Sept, 1983)
1963 Devin Rene‚ De Vasquez Baton Rouge La, playmate (June,
1985)
1964 Zeng Jinlian Hunan China, became tallest woman known (2.46 m,
8'1")
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Deaths which occurred
on June 26th:
1906 Alexander Muir poet (The Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76
1938 James Weldon Johnson dies of injuries received in car crash
1967 Francoise Dorl‚ac actress (That Man From Rio), dies at
35
1983 Walter O'Keefe songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies
at 82
1984 Carl Foreman producer, dies of cancer at 69
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