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June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar , with 188 days remaining.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
Events 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 - Benedict II becomes Pope .
1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.
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 III becomes king of England .
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 .
1807 - Lightning hits a warehouse in Luxembourg , killing 230 people.
1819 - The bicycle is patented.
1848 - End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 - The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park , London .
1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States .
1918 - World War I Western Front : Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince .
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 in San Francisco.
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
1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner " on a visit to West Berlin .
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
1975 - Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India .
1975 - FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler and American Indian Movement member Joseph Stuntz were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala , South Dakota .
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 .
1978 - Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into the Etobicoke Creek ravine . Two of 107 passengers onboard died.
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 .
1996 - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment .
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations .
Births 1681 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp , Swedish writer (d. 1708 )
1689 - Edward Holyoke , American President of Harvard University (d. 1769 )
1694 - Georg Brandt , Swedish chemist and minerologist (d. 1768 )
1702 - Philip Doddridge , English religious leader (d. 1751 )
1703 - Thomas Clap , first president of Yale University (d. 1767 )
1819 - Abner Doubleday , American Major General (d. 1893 )
1824 - Lord Kelvin , Irish-born physicist (d. 1907 )
1854 - Robert Laird Borden , eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937 )
1865 - Bernard Berenson , American art historian (d. 1959 )
1866 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon , English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923 )
1869 - Martin Andersen Nexø , Danish writer (d. 1954 )
1892 - Pearl S. Buck , American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1973 )
1898 - Willy Messerschmitt , German aircraft designer (d. 1978 )
1899 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918 )
1904 - Frank Scott Hogg , Canadian astronomer (d. 1951 )
1904 - Peter Lorre , Hungarian-born actor (d. 1964 )
1906 - Alberto Rabagliati , Italian singer (d. 1974 )
1906 - Viktor Schreckengost , American father of industrial design
1907 - Debs Garms , American baseball player (d. 1984 )
1909 - Colonel Tom Parker , Elvis Presley 's manager (d. 1997 )
1911 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias , American athlete (d. 1956 )
1919 - Richard Neustadt , American political historian (d. 2003 )
1921 - Violette Szabo , French WWII secret agent (d. 1945 )
1922 - Eleanor Parker , American actress
1923 - Barbara Graham , American murderer (d. 1955 )
1924 - Costas Axelos , Greek philosopher
1925 - Pavel Belyayev , cosmonaut (d. 1970 )
1933 - Claudio Abbado , Italian conductor
1933 - Gene Green , American baseball player (d. 1981 )
1934 - Jeremy Wolfenden , British journalist (d. 1965 )
1934 - Dave Grusin , American jazz pianist
1936 - Robert Maclennan , British politician
1936 - Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte , Archbishop of Montreal
1937 - Sombat Metanee , Thai film actor
1937 - Robert Coleman Richardson , American physicist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Yves Beauchemin , Canadian novelist
1942 - Gilberto Gil , Brazilian Minister of Culture
1943 - John Beasley , American actor
1943 - Georgie Fame , British singer
1945 - Dwight York , American cult leader
1951 - Gary Gilmour , Australian cricketer
1954 - Steve Barton , American actor
1955 - Mick Jones , British guitarist (The Clash , Big Audio Dynamite )
1956 - Chris Isaak , American singer
1957 - Patty Smyth , American singer (Scandal )
1959 - Mark McKinney , Canadian actor
1961 - Greg LeMond , American cyclist
1961 - Terri Nunn , American singer (Berlin )
1963 - Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky , Russian businessman
1964 - Tommi Mäkinen , Finnish rally driver
1968 - Rich Eisen , American sports broadcaster
1968 - Paolo Maldini , Italian footballer
1968 - Shannon Sharpe , American football player
1969 - Colin Greenwood , British musician (Radiohead )
1970 - Chris O'Donnell , American actor
1970 - Sean Hayes , American actor
1970 - Irv Gotti , American record producer
1970 - Paul Thomas Anderson , American filmmaker
1970 - Nick Offerman , American actor
1972 - Garou , Canadian singer
1972 - Jai Taurima , Australian long jumper
1973 - Gretchen Wilson , American singer
1973 - Paweł Małaszyński , Polish actor
1973 - Jussi Sydänmaa , Finnish musician (Lordi )
1974 - Matt Striker , American wrestler
1974 - Derek Jeter , American baseball player
1974 - Jeff Frankenstein , Australian musician (Newsboys )
1974 - Jason Kendall , American baseball player
1975 - Jonah Sorrentino (KJ-52), American Christian hip hop artist
1976 - Ed Jovanovski , Canadian hockey player
1976 - Chad Pennington , American football player
1976 - Joe Landon , American pornographic actor
1977 - Kubo Tite , Japanese cartoonist
1979 - Kostas Katsouranis , Greek footballer
1979 - Nathan Followill , Kings Of Leon drummer
1980 - Jason Schwartzman , American actor
1980 - Michael Vick , American football player
1980 - Chris Shelton , American baseball player
1983 - Leela James , American singer
1985 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje , Tibetan spiritual leader
1987 - Daniel Cleary , Canadian hockey player
1990 - Ryan Ward , American actor
2005 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
Deaths 363 - Julian the Apostate , Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331 )
1291 - Eleanor of Provence , wife of Henry III of England
1541 - Francisco Pizarro , Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered)
1688 - Ralph Cudworth , English philosopher (b. 1617 )
1784 - Caesar Rodney , American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728 )
1793 - Gilbert White , English ornithologist (b. 1720 )
1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier , inventor of the hot air balloon (b. 1740 )
1836 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , French composer (La Marseillaise ) (b. 1760 )
1917 - Joseph Acton , Professional wrestler
1918 - Peter Rosegger , Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843 )
1922 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848 )
1939 - Ford Madox Ford , English writer (b. 1873 )
1943 - Karl Landsteiner , Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868 )
1946 - Yosuke Matsuoka , Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880 )
1947 - Richard Bedford Bennett , eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870 )
1956 - Clifford Brown , American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930 )
1957 - Alfred Döblin , German writer (b. 1878 )
1958 - George Orton , Canadian athlete (b. 1873 )
1958 - Andrija Štampar , Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888 )
1964 - Gerrit Rietveld , Dutch architect (b. 1888 )
1967 - Françoise Dorléac , French actress (b. 1942 )
1975 - St. Josemaría Escrivá , Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902 )
1984 - Michel Foucault , French literary theorist (b. 1926 )
1992 - Herman Rohde , professional wrestler (b. 1921 )
1993 - William H. Riker , American political scientist (b. 1920 )
1993 - Roy Campanella , Major League baseball player (b. 1921 )
1996 - Veronica Guerin , Irish journalist (b. 1958 )
1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole , Hawaiian singer (b. 1959 )
2002 - Arnold
Brown , the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913 )
2002 - Jay Berwanger , American football player (b. 1914 )
2003 - Marc-Vivien Foé , Cameroon footballer (b. 1975 )
2003 - Strom Thurmond , U.S. Senator (b. 1902 )
2003 - Dennis Thatcher MBE , husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915 )
2004 - Yash Johar , Indian film producer (b. 1929 )
2005 - Richard Whiteley , British television game show host (b. 1943 )
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