Notable Historical Events on June 26th
June 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 |
Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened) |
1409 |
Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V |
1483 |
Duke of Gloucester appoints himself King Richard III of England |
1498 |
Toothbrush invented |
1553 |
Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter |
1630 |
Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde |
1714 |
Spain & Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement |
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. |
1721 |
Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America |
1723 |
After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians. |
1794 |
Battle of Fleurus; major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon |
1797 |
Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil! |
1807 |
Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die |
1843 |
Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony |
1848 |
1st pure food law enacted in US |
1848 |
End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. |
1857 |
The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria |
1857 |
Cawnpore England massacre |
1862 |
Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia |
1862 |
Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville VA (Meadow Bridge) |
1862 |
US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope |
1870 |
1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens |
1870 |
Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich |
1870 |
The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. |
1879 |
Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt |
1894 |
Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto |
1896 |
1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission |
1900 |
Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever |
1900 |
Japan mobolizes 20,000 troops to help put down the Boxer uprising - but also advance long-term interest in gaining land and power in mainland Asia |
1900 |
The Russian Tsar orders that Russian must be the official language of Finland, despite growing unrest within Finland and increasing international concern over Russia's behavior there |
1902 |
Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII |
1902 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Garidebs" (BG) |
1902 |
Aga Khan III is appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire |
1906 |
Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France) |
1907 |
Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis |
1909 |
23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (6-0 6-1) |
1909 |
Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London |
1910 |
24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (6-4 6-2) |
1910 |
Hazel Hotchkiss wins US Lawn Tennis Association championship |
1911 |
Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph) |
1912 |
Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna |
1914 |
The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Gandhi; it abolishes a £3 tax imposed on Indians who had not renewed their indentures and recognizes "the validity of Indian customary marriages" |
1915 |
Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace |
1916 |
Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game) |
1917 |
1st US Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I |
1918 |
The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed |
1919 |
NY Daily News begins publishing |
1924 |
After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic |
1924 |
Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway |
1925 |
60th British Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 300 at Prestwick Golf Club |
1927 |
Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth |
1927 |
The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island |
1929 |
ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union) |
1934 |
FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions |
1934 |
Germany & Poland sign non-aggression treaty |
1934 |
W.E.B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP |
1935 |
Andrew Sandham's 100th FC hundred, 103 v Hants |
1935 |
Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader |
1935 |
SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam |
1935 |
Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany |
1936 |
1st flight of Fw61 helicopter |
1936 |
Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ |
1937 |
Test cricket debut of Len Hutton v NZ at Lord's, scores 0 & 1 |
1938 |
Cin Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader |
1940 |
End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27 |
1941 |
Finland enters WW II against Russia |
1941 |
Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno |
1942 |
German assault on British at Mersa Matruh |
1944 |
2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line |
1944 |
Yanks, Dodgers & Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0 |
1945 |
England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs |
1945 |
UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF |
1946 |
Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years |
1946 |
Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny |
1948 |
US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin |
1949 |
1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains) |
1950 |
Pres Gottwald of Czech confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence |
1952 |
Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%) |
1952 |
Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew |
1953 |
KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1953 |
Russian vice-premier/interior minister Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria arrested |
1954 |
Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4 |
1955 |
Freedom Charter signed in South Africa |
1955 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
1958 |
Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium |
1958 |
Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated |
1958 |
Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
1959 |
Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
1959 |
Queen Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway |
1960 |
British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain |
1960 |
Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually |
1960 |
Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian administration |
1960 |
Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France |
1962 |
Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill |
1962 |
Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0 |
1962 |
WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1963 |
Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government |
1963 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV |
1963 |
US President John Kennedy visits West Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner";or is it "I am a doughnut") |
1964 |
Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album |
1964 |
Blacks & Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine |
1964 |
Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo |
1965 |
Wallon party forms in Belgium |
1966 |
"Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 perfs |
1966 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
1966 |
Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland |
1967 |
Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals |
1968 |
Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions |
1968 |
Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US |
1970 |
Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2 |
1970 |
Two young girls die in a premature explosion in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army |
1971 |
"Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC after 2329 perfs |
1971 |
Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines) |
1972 |
Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut v Eng |
1972 |
IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland |
1972 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) begin a "bi-lateral truce" as at midnight |
1972 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day |
1973 |
London production of "Grease" premieres |
1973 |
On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 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 |
Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency |
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. |
1976 |
WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball |
1977 |
42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn |
1977 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
1977 |
Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career |
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 |
Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France |
1978 |
First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched |
1978 |
Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish. |
1979 |
Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes & kills a driver |
1981 |
"For Your Eyes Only" premieres in US |
1982 |
Carlos Lopes runs European record 10km (27:34.39) |
1982 |
US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces |
1983 |
"Loving" premieres on TV |
1983 |
"Show Boat" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 73 performances |
1983 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
1984 |
1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4 |
1984 |
Barbra Streisand records "Here We Are at Last" |
1986 |
South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
1987 |
Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn |
1987 |
Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement |
1988 |
Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
1989 |
Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen |
1989 |
Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty |
1990 |
122°F in Phoenix Arizona |
1990 |
8 KS & OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad |
1990 |
New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall |
1991 |
"Getting Married" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 70 perfs |
1991 |
ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress |
1991 |
Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1991 |
Charlotte Hornets make Larry Johnson of UNLV, NBA's #1 draft pick |
1991 |
Ky medical examiner announces Zachary Taylor died of natural causes |
1992 |
India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh |
1992 |
NYC's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993 |
1992 |
Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports |
1992 |
Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship |
1993 |
"Late Night with David Letterman" airs for last time on NBC-TV |
1993 |
Actress Julia Roberts & country singer Lyle Lovett wed |
1993 |
NY Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs |
1993 |
Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1993 |
The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait. |
1994 |
"Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances |
1994 |
"Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances |
1994 |
104°F (40°C) at Denver, Colorado |
1994 |
107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico |
1994 |
112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso, Texas |
1994 |
122°F (50°C) at Laughlin, Nevada |
1994 |
126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, Calif |
1994 |
Air Ivory Fokker-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives) |
1994 |
Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
1994 |
Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader |
1994 |
PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years |
1994 |
US loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup |
1995 |
Gunmen ambush Egyptian pres Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed |
1995 |
Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes 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 |
Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9) |
1997 |
The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law |
1997 |
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban |
1997 |
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment |
1997 |
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is published, the first instalment of the best selling series by J. K. Rowling |
2003 |
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional. |
2008 |
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional. |
2011 |
57th LPGA Championship won by Yani Tseng |
2013 |
20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand |
2013 |
Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in a leadership battle to become Australian Prime Minister |
2014 |
Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident |
2014 |
Canadian Andrew Wiggins is selected as the No.1 draft pick in the NBA by the Cleveland Cavaliers |
2016 |
Conservative Writer George Will Drops Out of GOP Over Trump |
2016 |
Islamist Militants Storm Hotel in Somalia, Killing at Least 6 |
2016 |
West Virginia's worst flooding in a century has killed 23 |
2016 |
Pete Rose inducted to Reds' Hall of Fame |
2017 |
Dozens missing after tourist boat sinks in Colombia |
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