About June 26

June 26, 2025 is the 177th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 236 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1870 –
    The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
  • 1941 –
    World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
  • 1942 –
    The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1955 –
    The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
  • 1960 –
    The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
  • 1973 –
    At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
  • 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.
  • 1996 –
    Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
  • 1997 –
    The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • 2003 –
    The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
  • 2006 –
    Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.

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