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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- 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.
- 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 –Madagascar gains its independence from France.
- 1960 –The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
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