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June 26 in History
Historical Events on June 26
4 AD
Augustus adopts Tiberius.
221
Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
363
Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
684
Pope Benedict II chosen.
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.
1243
Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
1295
Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
1407
Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
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.
1460
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
1483
Richard III becomes King of England.
1522
Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
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.
1579
Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
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.
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 during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1794
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
1830
William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
1843
Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
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.
1886
Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
1889
Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
1906
The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.
1909
The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1917
The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
1918
Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
1924
The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
1927
The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1934
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1936
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 the northern part of Bukovina.
1941
World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1942
The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
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
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.
1948
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.
1952
The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
1953
Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
1955
The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
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.
1960
The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
1960
Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1963
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.
1967
Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
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
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.
1977
Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena
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.
1991
The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1995
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
1997
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2000
The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
2000
Pope John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima.
2003
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2006
Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2007
Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
2008
A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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