About June 26

June 26, 2023 is the 177th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 229 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 26

  • 1284 –
    the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
  • 1541 –
    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.
  • 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.
  • 1848 –
    End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
  • 1870 –
    The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
  • 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.
  • 1924 –
    American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
  • 1936 –
    Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
  • 1942 –
    The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
  • 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.
  • 1953 –
    Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
  • 1959 –
    The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America’s Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 2003 –
    The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

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