Title: June 26 Content: == Events == === Up to 1950 === * 4 Roman Emperor Augustus adopts Tiberius. * 221 Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir. * 363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Troops on the battlefield proclaim Jovian Emperor. * 687 Benedict II becomes Pope. * 1409 Western Schism: The 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. * 1492 Mont Aiguille, in the Western Alps in France is climbed for the first time by Antoine de Ville. * 1541 Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima. * 1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (son of Peter I of Russia) dies mysteriously after his father sentenced him to death for plotting against him. (occurred on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar) * 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, Florida in the War of Jenkins' Ear. * 1819 The bicycle is patented. * 1830 King George IV of the United Kingdom dies. His brother succeeds him as William IV of the United Kingdom. * 1843 The Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, effectively giving Hong Kong to the United Kingdom. * 1848 End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. * 1857 First Investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. * 1860 In Durban, South Africa, Africa's first railway is opened. * 1870 Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the US. * 1879 Egypt sells its parts of the Suez Canal to the United Kingdom. * 1886 Henri Moissan isolates elemental fluorine for the first time. * 1889 Bangui, now-capital city of the Central African Republic, is founded. * 1905 A telegram is sent to Iceland for the first time, from Cornwall. * 1906 The 1906 French Grand Prix is held, as the first Grand Prix motor racing event ever held. * 1917 World War I: US troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany. * 1920 Antonio Maria da Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal. * 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. * 1945 In Germany, the CDU political party is founded. * 1948 The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin. === 1951 2000 === * 1954 The FIFA World Cup's most goal-filled match occurs in Lausanne, Switzerland, as the Austria national football team wins 7-5 against the Switzerland national football team. * 1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion when he defeats Floyd Patterson. * 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. * 1960 Madagascar becomes independent from France. * 1963 John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" at a speech in Berlin. * 1964 The Beatles release the album A Hard Day's Night. * 1966 The Basel Canton in Switzerland allows women to vote. * 1973 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. * 1974 The first retail product (a pack of chewing gum) was sold using a barcode reader. * 1975 Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India. * 1976 The CN Tower in Toronto is officially opened. * 1977 The last concert of Elvis Presley takes place. * 1978 Air Canada Flight 221 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. * 1979 Muhammad Ali retires. * 1987 Convention against Torture entered into force. * 1991 The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten- Day War in Slovenia and Croatia. * 1995 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak survives an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. * 1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani becomes Emir of Qatar after deposing his father, Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani in a bloodless coup. * 1996 Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot dead in Dublin, Ireland. * 1997 Bertie Ahern becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland. * 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment. * 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.), the first book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published. * 2000 Human Genome Project: The completion of the first rough map of the human genetic code is announced. === From 2001 === * 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. * 2006 East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigns after weeks of political unrest. * 2007 In Zheijiang, China, the Huangzhou Bay Bridge is opened. * 2007 Lina Hahne, a 23-year-old medical student, is crowned Miss Sweden after the original winner was dethroned. * 2013 Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard loses a vote within the Australian Labor Party against previous Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who succeeds her the next day. * 2014 2014 FIFA World Cup: FIFA hands out its heaviest FIFA World Cup ban to Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini two days earlier. The Uruguayan Football Association appeals the decision. * 2015 Islamist Terror attacks occur in France, Kuwait and Tunisia. A local businessman is decapitated in Southeast France; At least 27 people killed in a bombing at a mosque in Kuwait; A gun attack on foreign tourists in Sousse, Tunisia, kills at least 38 people. * 2015 The Supreme Court of the United States rules that all states of the United States are to recognize same-sex marriage. * 2016 Chile defeats Argentina in the final of the Copa América Centenario. Argentina's Lionel Messi announces his retirement from the national team after the match. * 2017 Theresa May's Conservative Party agrees a deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party in order to stay in power in the United Kingdom. * 2018 The United States Supreme Court, in a majority decision, rules in favour of Donald Trump's travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries. * 2018 Activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeats incumbent United States Representative Joe Crowley in an upset victory in the Democratic Party primary for New York's 14th congressional district. == Births == === Up to 1900 === * 1501 Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator and poet (d. 1572) * 1557 Leandro Bassano, Italian painter (d. 1622) * 1575 Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) * 1582 Johannes Schultz, German composer (d. 1653) * 1653 Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (d. 1743) * 1681 Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708) * 1689 Edward Holyoke, American clergyman and academic (d. 1769) * 1726 Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796) * 1730 Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817) * 1741 John Langdon, American politician (d. 1819) * 1753 Antoine de Rivarol, French writer (d. 1801) * 1760 Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1836) * 1786 Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855) * 1817 Branwell Bronte, English painter and poet (d. 1848) * 1819 Abner Doubleday, American major general (d. 1893) * 1821 Bartolomé Mitre, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906) * 1824 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist (d. 1907) * 1826 Adolf Bastian, German polymath (d. 1905) * 1839 Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and writer (d. 1901) * 1854 Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937) * 1865 Bernard Berenson, art connoisseur (d. 1959) * 1866 George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923) * 1871 Johan Anker, Norwegian sailor (d. 1940) * 1880 Mitchell Lewis, American movie actor (d. 1956) * 1892 Pearl S. Buck, American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1973) * 1893 Big Bill Broonzy, American blues musician and composer (d. 1958) * 1895 George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1956) * 1897 Viola Dana, American actress (d. 1987) * 1898 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978) * 1899 Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna (d. 1918) * 1899 Elvy Kalep, Estonian pilot and artist (d. 1989) === 1901 1950 === * 1902 Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010) * 1904 Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964) * 1904 Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951) * 1906 Edward Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana (d. 1979) * 1908 Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973) * 1909 Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997) * 1909 Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director and producer (d. 1985) * 1911 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (d. 1956) * 1912 Jay Silverheels, actor (d. 1980) * 1913 Aimé Césaire, French-Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008) * 1913 Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010) * 1914 Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (d. 1991) * 1914 Laurie Lee, English poet, novelist and screenwriter (d. 1997) * 1914 Wolfgang Windgassen, German tenor (d. 1974) * 1916 Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (d. 2010) * 1919 Richard Neustadt, political historian (d. 2003) * 1920 Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian baseball player (d. 2014) * 1922 Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013) * 1922 Dick Smith, American special effects make-up artist (d. 2014) * 1924 Richard Bull, American actor (d. 2014) * 1925 Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970) * 1925 Wolfgang Unzicker, German chess player (d. 2006) * 1927 Dimitar Iliev Popov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2015) * 1928 Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor * 1929 Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, typographer and teacher * 1930 Jackie Fargo, American professional wrestler (d. 2013) * 1933 Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014) * 1933 David Winnick, English politician * 1934 Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist * 1934 Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965) * 1936 Robert Maclennan, British politician * 1936 Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015) * 1936 Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (d. 2014) * 1936 Hal Greer, American basketball player * 1937 Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist (d. 2013) * 1938 Neil Abercrombie, American politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii * 1939 Chuck Robb, American politician, 64th Governor of Virginia * 1942 Gilberto Gil, first Minister of Culture of Brazil, singer, songwriter and musician * 1944 Wolfgang Weber, German footballer * 1945 Dwight York, musician, fashion consultant, cult leader and child molester * 1947 Peter Sloterdijk, German philosopher * 1948 Sergei Bodrov, Russian movie director, screenwriter and producer * 1949 Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist (d. 2015) * 1950 Michael Paul Chan, American actor === 1951 1975 === * 1951 Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer (d. 2014) * 1951 Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician * 1952 Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer * 1952 Simon Mann, English mercenary * 1954 Luis Arconada, Basque-Spanish footballer * 1954 Steve Barton, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2001) * 1955 Mick Jones, British musician, guitarist with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite * 1956 Chris Isaak, American pop singer and actor * 1956 Patrick Mercer, British politician * 1957 Pietro Paolo Virdis, Italian footballer * 1957 Philippe Mabboux, French organist and composer * 1957 Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter * 1958 Pedro Cateriano, former Prime Minister of Peru * 1958 Riho Sibul, Estonian singer and guitarist * 1959 Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and screenwriter * 1960 Mark Durkan, Northern Irish politician * 1961 Greg Lemond, cyclist * 1961 Toni Barry, British voice actress * 1961 Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin) * 1962 Jerome Kersey, American basketball player (d. 2015) * 1963 Richard Garfield, American game designer * 1963 Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian CEO of YUKOS Oil Company * 1966 Dany Boon, French actor, director and screenwriter * 1967 Olivier Dahan, French director and screenwriter * 1967 Tarun Sagar, Indian Jain monk (d. 2018) * 1968 Gudni Th. Johannesson, Icelandic historian and academic, 6th President of Iceland * 1968 Jovenel Moïse, President of Haiti (d. 2021) * 1968 Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator * 1968 Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer * 1968 Armand de Las Cuevas, French cyclist (d. 2018) * 1969 Colin Greenwood, musician, Radiohead * 1969 Francis Magee, Irish actor * 1969 Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter * 1970 Paul Thomas Anderson, American director, producer and screenwriter * 1970 Irv Gotti, American record producer * 1970 Sean Hayes, American actor, singer and producer * 1970 Chris O'Donnell, American actor * 1972 Caroline Nokes, English politician * 1972 Jussi Sydanmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi) * 1973 Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer * 1974 Derek Jeter, American baseball player * 1975 Jean-Paul Abalo, Togolese footballer === From 1976 === * 1976 Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player * 1976 Chad Pennington, American football player * 1976 Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist leader (d. 2018) * 1977 Kubo Tite, cartoonist * 1979 Ryan Tedder, American singer, musician and producer (OneRepublic) * 1980 Jason Schwartzman, American actor * 1980 Michael Vick, American football player * 1981 Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer * 1983 Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer * 1984 Raymond Felton, American basketball player * 1984 Deron Williams, American basketball player * 1984 Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner * 1984 Aubrey Plaza, American actress * 1985 Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor * 1985 Daniela Sabatino, Italian footballer * 1985 Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader * 1986 Xisco, Spanish footballer * 1987 Samir Nasri, French footballer * 1988 Amanda Marchant, English singer * 1988 Sam Marchant, English singer * 1988 Dakota L. Meyer, American soldier * 1990 Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner * 1992 Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer * 1992 Melanie Amaro, British-American singer * 1992 Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer * 1993 Ariana Grande, American actress and singer * 2005 Princess Alexia of the Netherlands == Deaths == === Up to 1950 === * 363 Julian, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331) * 1291 Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III of England * 1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered) * 1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia (b. 1690), died on July 7 in the Gregorian calendar * 1784 Caesar Rodney, 4th Governor of Delaware (b. 1728) * 1808 Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748) * 1810 Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740) * 1830 King George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762) * 1836 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (b. 1706) * 1856 Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806) * 1870 Armand Barbès, French revolutionary (b. 1809) * 1878 Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain (b. 1860) * 1883 Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist and ornithologist (b. 1788) * 1918 Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843) * 1922 Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1841) * 1938 Daria Pratt, American golfer (b. 1859) * 1939 Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (b. 1873) * 1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868) * 1945 Emil Hacha, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872) * 1946 Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1880) * 1947 Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870) * 1949 Kim Gu, Korean politician (b. 1876) === 1951 2000 === * 1951 Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (b. 1885) * 1955 Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895) * 1956 Clifford Brown, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1930) * 1957 Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878) * 1957 Malcolm Lowry, English poet and author (b. 1909) * 1958 Andrija Štampar, physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888) * 1958 George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873) * 1964 Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888) * 1975 St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (b. 1902) * 1979 Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian politician (b. 1936) * 1990 Anni Blomqvist, Finnish writer (b. 1909) * 1993 William H. Riker, political scientist (b. 1920) * 1996 Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958) * 1997 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (born 1959) === From 2001 === * 2002 Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914) * 2002 Arnold Brown, 11th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1913) * 2003 Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915) * 2003 Strom Thurmond, United States Senator (b. 1902) * 2003 Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975) * 2004 Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (b. 1929) * 2005 Richard Whiteley, British game show host (b. 1943) * 2007 Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born fashion designer (b. 1929) * 2007 Jupp Derwall, German footballer and manager (b. 1927) * 2010 Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian President (b. 1932) * 2011 Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (b. 1948) * 2012 Nora Ephron, American writer, screenwriter and movie director (b. 1941) * 2013 Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (b. 1934) * 2013 Bert Stern, American photographer (b. 1929) * 2013 Kimberly McCarthy, American murderer (b. 1961) * 2014 Ivan Plyushch, Ukrainian politician (b. 1941) * 2014 Howard Baker, American politician and diplomat, United States Senator for Tennessee (b. 1925) * 2014 Wolf Koenig, German-born Canadian filmmaker (b. 1927) * 2014 Ron Hall, Australian rules footballer (b. 1945) * 2015 Yevgeny Primakov, former Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1929) * 2015 Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (b. 1966) * 2016 Austin Clarke, Canadian novelist (b. 1934) * 2016 Barbara Goldsmith, American author (b. 1931) * 2016 Ryan Jimmo, Canadian mixed martial artist (b. 1981) * 2016 Kim Sung-min, South Korean actor (b. 1973) * 2016 Kavalam Narayana Panicker, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet (b. 1928) * 2016 Rostislav Yankovsky, Belarussian actor (b. 1930) * 2017 Desh Bandhu Gupta, Indian businessman (b. 1938) * 2017 Doug Peterson, American yacht designer (b. 1945) * 2017 Habib Thiam, Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1933) * 2017 Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister, Swedish countess (b. 1926) * 2017 Claude Fagedet, French photographer (b. 1928) * 2018 Andrey Dementyev, Russian poet (b. 1928) * 2018 Henri Namphy, President of Haiti (b. 1932) * 2018 Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor (b. 1940) * 2018 Big Bill Bissonnette, American jazz trombonist (b. 1937) * 2018 Ignatios Lappas, Greek Orthodox bishop (b. 1946) * 2018 Phil Rodgers, American golfer (b. 1938) * 2019 Georges Brossard, Canadian entomologist (b. 1940) * 2019 Douglas Fielding, British actor and narrator (b. 1946) * 2019 Manuel Real, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924) * 2019 Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov, Russian historian (b. 1930) * 2019 Max Wright, American actor (b. 1943) == Observances == * Independence Day in Madagascar * Flag Day (Romania) * Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan) * International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking * International Day in Support of Victims of Torture Category:Days of the year