About June 26

June 26, 2024 is the 178th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 217 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 26

  • 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 Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
  • 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.
  • 1857 –
    The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
  • 1907 –
    The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
  • 1909 –
    The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • 1917 –
    The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
  • 1918 –
    World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
  • 1945 –
    The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
  • 1948 –
    Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
  • 1948 –
    The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
  • 1952 –
    The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
  • 1973 –
    At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 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 –
    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 –
    The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
  • 1978 –
    Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
  • 1991 –
    Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people’s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
  • 1996 –
    Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
  • 2006 –
    Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.

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