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June 26th, 2008 (June 26 2008) | Event | The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional. | |
June 26th, 1978 (June 26 1978) | Event | Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish. | |
June 26th, 1978 (June 26 1978) | Birth | Alexandra, French singer, L5 s singer | |
June 26th, 1968 (June 26 1968) | Birth | Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer | |
June 26th, 1968 (June 26 1968) | Birth | Shannon Sharpe, American football player | |
June 26th, 1958 (June 26 1958) | Death | George Orton, Canadian athlete (born in 1873) | |
June 26th, 1958 (June 26 1958) | Death | Andrija Stampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (born in 1888) | |
June 26th, 1948 (June 26 1948) | Event | The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin. | |
June 26th, 1948 (June 26 1948) | Event | William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. | |
June 26th, 1948 (June 26 1948) | Death | Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (born in 1924) | |
June 26th, 1938 (June 26 1938) | Birth | Gerald North, American climatologist | |
June 26th, 1928 (June 26 1928) | Birth | Jacob Druckman, American composer (died in 1996) | |
June 26th, 1928 (June 26 1928) | Birth | Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor | |
June 26th, 1918 (June 26 1918) | Event | World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau WoodAllied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. | James Wood Quotes |
June 26th, 1918 (June 26 1918) | Death | Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1843) | |
June 26th, 1908 (June 26 1908) | Birth | Salvador Allende, Former President of Chile (1970-1973) (died in 1973) | |
June 26th, 1898 (June 26 1898) | Birth | Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (died in 1978) | |
June 26th, 1898 (June 26 1898) | Birth | Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (died in 1971) | |
June 26th, 1878 (June 26 1878) | Death | Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (born in 1860) | |
June 26th, 1848 (June 26 1848) | Event | End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. | |
June 26th, 1838 (June 26 1838) | Birth | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali Novelist (died in 1894) | |
June 26th, 1718 (June 26 1718) | Event | Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. | |
June 26th, 1688 (June 26 1688) | Death | Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (born in 1617) | Ralph Cudworth Quotes |