June 26 Events |
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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, 2003 (June 26 2003) | Event | The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional. | |
| June 26th, 1997 (June 26 1997) | Event | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment | |
| June 26th, 1996 (June 26 1996) | Event | Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin | |
| June 26th, 1995 (June 26 1995) | Event | Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup. | |
| June 26th, 1993 (June 26 1993) | Event | 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. | |
| June 26th, 1991 (June 26 1991) | Event | Ten-Day War- the Yugoslav people s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. | |
| 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, 1977 (June 26 1977) | Event | 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. | Stan Lee Quotes |
| June 26th, 1976 (June 26 1976) | Event | The CN Tower, the world s tallest free-standing structure on land, is opened. | |
| June 26th, 1975 (June 26 1975) | Event | Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India. | Indira Gandhi Quotes |
| June 26th, 1975 (June 26 1975) | Event | 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. | |
| June 26th, 1974 (June 26 1974) | Event | 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 | |
| June 26th, 1973 (June 26 1973) | Event | On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. | |
| June 26th, 1963 (June 26 1963) | Event | John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| June 26th, 1960 (June 26 1960) | Event | The former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence. | |
| June 26th, 1959 (June 26 1959) | Event | The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America s Great Lakes to ocean-going ships. | |
| 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, 1945 (June 26 1945) | Event | The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco. | |
| June 26th, 1940 (June 26 1940) | Event | 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. | |
| June 26th, 1936 (June 26 1936) | Event | Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. | |
| June 26th, 1934 (June 26 1934) | Event | President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. | |
| June 26th, 1927 (June 26 1927) | Event | The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island | |
| June 26th, 1924 (June 26 1924) | Event | American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic. | |
| 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, 1917 (June 26 1917) | Event | the first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I. | |
| June 26th, 1870 (June 26 1870) | Event | The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. | |
| June 26th, 1857 (June 26 1857) | Event | The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. | |
| June 26th, 1848 (June 26 1848) | Event | End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. | |
| June 26th, 1723 (June 26 1723) | Event | After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians. | |
| 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, 1541 (June 26 1541) | Event | Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. | |
| June 26th, 1483 (June 26 1483) | Event | Richard III is crowned king of England. | |
| June 26th, 1409 (June 26 1409) | Event | 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. | Alexander Pope Quotes |
| June 26th, 1284 (June 26 1284) | Event | According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children away from Hamelin. | |
| June 26th, 0363 (June 26 0363) | Event | Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. | Julian Quotes |
