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.
- 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.
- 1870 –The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 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.
- 1924 –American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- 1927 –The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
- 1934 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- 1936 –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 the northern part of Bukovina.
- 1945 –The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
- 1952 –The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
- 1955 –The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- 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.
- 1991 –Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people’s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
- 1995 –Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
- 2003 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
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