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Events on the 26th of June in history

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26 Jun 0004 Augustus adopts Tiberius.
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26 Jun 0221 Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
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26 Jun 0363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
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26 Jun 0684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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26 Jun 0687 Pope Benedict II chosen.
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26 Jun 0699 En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
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26 Jun 1243 Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
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26 Jun 1284 Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened)
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26 Jun 1295 Przemysł II crowned as King of Poland king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
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26 Jun 1407 Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
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26 Jun 1409 Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V
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26 Jun 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.
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26 Jun 1460 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
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26 Jun 1483 Duke of Gloucester appoints himself English King Richard III
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26 Jun 1483 Richard III becomes King of England.
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26 Jun 1483 Richard III usurps English throne
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26 Jun 1498 Toothbrush invented
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26 Jun 1522 Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
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26 Jun 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.
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26 Jun 1573 French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle ends.
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26 Jun 1579 Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
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26 Jun 1714 Spain and Netherlands sign peace / trade agreement
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26 Jun 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.
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26 Jun 1721 Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
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26 Jun 1723 After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
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26 Jun 1740 A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
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26 Jun 1794 Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army
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26 Jun 1794 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.
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26 Jun 1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to
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26 Jun 1807 Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
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26 Jun 1830 William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
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26 Jun 1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
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26 Jun 1843 Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
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26 Jun 1844 US President John Tyler marries Julia Gardiner in New York City
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26 Jun 1848 End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
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26 Jun 1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
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26 Jun 1857 62 receive Victoria Cross
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26 Jun 1857 Cawnpore England massacre
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26 Jun 1857 The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
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26 Jun 1862 Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville VA (Meadow Bridge)
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26 Jun 1862 US Army of Virginia established under General John Pope
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26 Jun 1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia
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26 Jun 1862 Day 2 of the 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville
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26 Jun 1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
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26 Jun 1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
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26 Jun 1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
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26 Jun 1886 Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
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26 Jun 1889 Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
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26 Jun 1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
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26 Jun 1896 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission
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26 Jun 1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
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26 Jun 1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII
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26 Jun 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Garidebs" (BG)
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26 Jun 1902 England establishes Order of Merit
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26 Jun 1902 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #488 Kreusa
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26 Jun 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 3 Garidebs" (BG)
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26 Jun 1906 Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
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26 Jun 1906 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing event held
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26 Jun 1907 Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
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26 Jun 1907 The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
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26 Jun 1909 23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (60 61)
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26 Jun 1909 Victoria and Albert Museum opens in London
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26 Jun 1909 The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
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26 Jun 1910 24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (64 62)
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26 Jun 1910 Hazel Hotchkiss wins US Lawn Tennis Association championship
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26 Jun 1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
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26 Jun 1912 Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
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26 Jun 1915 Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
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26 Jun 1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game)
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26 Jun 1917 The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
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26 Jun 1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I
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26 Jun 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.
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26 Jun 1919 New York Daily News begins publishing
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26 Jun 1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published
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26 Jun 1924 Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway
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26 Jun 1924 American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
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26 Jun 1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Domincan Republic
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26 Jun 1927 Comet 7P / Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
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26 Jun 1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
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26 Jun 1929 ENKA / Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (General Kunstzijde Union)
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26 Jun 1934 Germany and Poland sign no-attack treaty
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26 Jun 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
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26 Jun 1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions
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26 Jun 1934 W E B Du Bois resigns position at NAACP
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26 Jun 1935 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
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26 Jun 1935 SDAP and CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
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26 Jun 1935 Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany
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26 Jun 1936 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
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26 Jun 1936 Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ
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26 Jun 1936 Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
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26 Jun 1936 L Boyer discovers asteroid #2021 Poincare
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26 Jun 1938 Cin Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
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26 Jun 1940 End of the USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6 / 27
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26 Jun 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.
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26 Jun 1941 Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
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26 Jun 1941 World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
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26 Jun 1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia
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26 Jun 1942 German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
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26 Jun 1942 The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
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26 Jun 1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
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26 Jun 1944 Yanks, Dodgers and Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 and Giants-0
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26 Jun 1944 World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
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26 Jun 1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
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26 Jun 1945 The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
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26 Jun 1946 Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
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26 Jun 1948 The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
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26 Jun 1948 William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
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26 Jun 1948 Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
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26 Jun 1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
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26 Jun 1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
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26 Jun 1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
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26 Jun 1952 Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
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26 Jun 1952 The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
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26 Jun 1953 KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
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26 Jun 1953 Russian Vice Premier / Interior Minister Beria arrested
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26 Jun 1953 Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
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26 Jun 1954 Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
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26 Jun 1955 Actor Geoffrey Holder marries Carmen de Lavallade
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26 Jun 1955 Freedom Charter signed in South-Africa
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26 Jun 1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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26 Jun 1955 The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
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26 Jun 1957 Hurricane Audrey strikes Louisiana claiming 500 lives
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26 Jun 1958 Gaston Eyskens becomes Premier of Belgium
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26 Jun 1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
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26 Jun 1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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26 Jun 1959 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title
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26 Jun 1959 Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower open St. Lawrence Seaway
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26 Jun 1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
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26 Jun 1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ
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26 Jun 1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
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26 Jun 1960 Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration
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26 Jun 1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
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26 Jun 1960 The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
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26 Jun 1960 Madagascar gains its independence from France.
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26 Jun 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
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26 Jun 1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
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26 Jun 1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo, Illinois
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26 Jun 1962 WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Jun 1962 Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0
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26 Jun 1963 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
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26 Jun 1963 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV
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26 Jun 1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)
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26 Jun 1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
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26 Jun 1963 Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister.
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26 Jun 1964 Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine
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26 Jun 1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
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26 Jun 1965 Wallon party forms in Belgium
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26 Jun 1966 "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 performances
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26 Jun 1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
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26 Jun 1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals
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26 Jun 1967 Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
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26 Jun 1968 Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions
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26 Jun 1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
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26 Jun 1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
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26 Jun 1971 Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
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26 Jun 1972 IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland
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26 Jun 1973 London production of "Grease" premieres
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26 Jun 1973 At Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
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26 Jun 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
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26 Jun 1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
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26 Jun 1975 Cher divorces Sonny Bono
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26 Jun 1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
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26 Jun 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.
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26 Jun 1976 WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball
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26 Jun 1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee
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26 Jun 1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
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26 Jun 1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, last performance of his career
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26 Jun 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.
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26 Jun 1977 Elvis Presley performs the final concert of his life in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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26 Jun 1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
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26 Jun 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
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26 Jun 1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final
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26 Jun 1979 Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes and kills a driver
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26 Jun 1981 "For Your Eyes Only" premieres in US
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26 Jun 1982 Carlos Lopes runs Europe record 10k (27:34.39)
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26 Jun 1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces
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26 Jun 1982 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521
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26 Jun 1982 Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig
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26 Jun 1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal
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26 Jun 1983 "Loving" premieres on TV
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26 Jun 1983 "Show Boat" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 73 performances
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26 Jun 1983 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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26 Jun 1983 "Loving" premiers on TV
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26 Jun 1984 Barbra Streisand records "Here We Are at Last"
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26 Jun 1984 Tiny Tim gets married
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26 Jun 1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4s
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26 Jun 1984 Barbra Striesand records "Here We Are at Last"
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26 Jun 1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement
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26 Jun 1987 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
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26 Jun 1989 Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen
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26 Jun 1989 Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
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26 Jun 1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time
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26 Jun 1990 8 KS and OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
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26 Jun 1990 New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall
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26 Jun 1990 122
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26 Jun 1991 "Getting Married" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 70 performances
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26 Jun 1991 ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses Congress
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26 Jun 1991 Ky medical examiner announces Zachary Taylor died of natural causes
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26 Jun 1991 Ten-Day War: The Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
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26 Jun 1992 India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
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26 Jun 1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
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26 Jun 1993 "Late Night with David Letterman" airs for last time on NBC-TV
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26 Jun 1993 Actress Julia Roberts and country singer Lyle Lovett wed
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26 Jun 1993 New York Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs
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26 Jun 1993 US Tomahawk-rockets hit Iraqi secret service, Baghdad
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26 Jun 1994 PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
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26 Jun 1994 US loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup
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26 Jun 1994 "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances
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26 Jun 1994 "Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances
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26 Jun 1994 Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26)
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26 Jun 1994 Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
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26 Jun 1995 Gunmen ambush Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed
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26 Jun 1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
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26 Jun 1995 Attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa.
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26 Jun 1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9)
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26 Jun 1997 Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law
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26 Jun 1997 Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
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26 Jun 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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26 Jun 2000 President Clinton announces the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome.
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26 Jun 2000 John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima.
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26 Jun 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
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26 Jun 2004 Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is re-elected as President of Iceland.
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26 Jun 2006 Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
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26 Jun 2007 Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive 2/3 of the votes.
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26 Jun 2012 The Waldo Canyon Fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
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26 Jun 2013 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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26 Jun 2013 Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injuring 21 others.
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26 Jun 2013 Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani became Prime Minister of Qatar.
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26 Jun 2015 Same-sex marriage was effectively legalized in the United States on June 26, 2015, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Prior to Obergefell, lower court decisions, state legislation, and popular referendums had already legalized same-sex marriage to some degree in 38 out of 50 U.S. states, comprising about 70% of the U.S. population. Federal benefits were previously extended to lawfully married same-sex couples following the Supreme Court's June 2013 decision in United States v. Windsor. Тhe United States became the twenty-first and most populous country to recognize same-sex marriage.
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