Historical Events on June 26

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• 363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by troops on the battlefield.
• 684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

• 1284 According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away
• 1409 Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V

• 1498 Toothbrush invented in China using boar bristles
• 1553 Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter
• 1630 Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
• 1714 Spain & Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement
• 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.
• 1721 Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
• 1723 After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.

• 1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow, though farmers fear effects of iron on soil
• 1807 Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die

• 1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
• 1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
• 1848 End of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers

• 1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia
• 1862 Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville VA (Meadow Bridge)
• 1862 US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope
• 1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens

• 1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt

• 1899 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: R.F. Doherty wins 3rd straight Wimbledon singles championship; beats Arthur Gore 1-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
• 1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
• 1900 Japan mobilizes 20,000 troops to help put down the Boxer uprising in China and to advance their long-term interest in gaining land and power in mainland Asia
• 1900 The Russian Tsar orders that Russian must be the official language of Finland, despite growing unrest within Finland and increasing international concern over Russia's behavior there
• 1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII

• 1906 Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
• 1907 Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
• 1909 Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London


• 1910 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Defending champion Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman beats Louise Hammond 6-4, 6-2
• 1911 US Open Men's Golf, Chicago GC: 19-year old John McDermott becomes first American born champion; wins in a playoff with Mike Brady and George Simpson
• 1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
• 1912 Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna

• 1915 Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
• 1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on their jerseys (one game)
• 1917 1st US troops arrive in France during World War I
• 1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed
• 1919 NY Daily News begins publishing
• 1922 The emergency decrees under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution are invoked by the government to deal with deteriorating economic conditions
• 1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
• 1924 Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway

• 1927 Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
• 1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island

• 1929 ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)

• 1934 Germany & Poland sign non-aggression treaty

• 1935 Andy Sandham's 100th FC hundred, 103 v Hants
• 1935 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
• 1935 SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
• 1935 Work service for recent graduates becomes obligatory in Germany
• 1936 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
• 1936 Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ
• 1937 Test cricket debut of Len Hutton v NZ at Lord's, scores 0 & 1
• 1938 Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
• 1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
• 1941 Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
• 1942 German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
• 1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
• 1944 Yanks, Dodgers & Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0
• 1945 England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs

• 1946 Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
• 1946 Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny
• 1948 US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin
• 1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
• 1950 Pres Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence
• 1952 Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)

• 1953 KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast

• 1954 Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
• 1955 Freedom Charter signed in South Africa

• 1958 Gaston Eyskens becomes Premier of Belgium
• 1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
• 1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

• 1959 9th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Cousins" wins Golden Bear


• 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
• 1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
• 1960 Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian administration
• 1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
• 1960 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Joyce Ziske wins on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Barbara Romack
• 1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
• 1962 Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0
• 1962 WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1963 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
• 1963 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV

• 1964 Blacks & Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine
• 1964 Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo
• 1964 14th Berlin International Film Festival: "Dry Summer" wins the Golden Bear
• 1965 Wallon party forms in Belgium
• 1966 "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 performances
• 1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland

• 1968 Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions

• 1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
• 1970 Two young girls die in a premature explosion in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army
• 1971 "Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC after 2329 performances
• 1971 Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
• 1971 21st Berlin International Film Festival: "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" wins the Golden Bear
• 1972 Australian bowler Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut vs England
• 1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day and at midnight begins a "bi-lateral truce"
• 1973 London production of musical "Grease" premieres
• 1973 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
• 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

• 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.
• 1975 U.S. Supreme Court's rules unanimously in "O'Connor v. Donaldson" that non-dangerous people can't be confined to psychiatric facilities without adequate treatment if able to live viably in outside society
• 1976 WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball
• 1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn

• 1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
• 1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
• 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
• 1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
• 1979 Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, accidentally crashes & kills a driver

• 1982 Carlos Lopes runs European record 10km (27:34.39)
• 1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
• 1983 "Loving" premieres on TV
• 1983 "Show Boat" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 73 performances
• 1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4

• 1987 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
• 1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announces his retirement
• 1989 Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen
• 1989 Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
• 1990 122°F in Phoenix Arizona
• 1990 8 KS & OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
• 1990 New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall
• 1991 "Getting Married" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 70 performances
• 1991 ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress
• 1991 Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
• 1991 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Larry Johnson first pick by Charlotte Hornets


• 1992 India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
• 1992 NYC's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993
• 1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
• 1992 UEFA European Championship Final, Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden: In a huge upset Denmark beats Germany, 2-0

• 1993 Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Junior Miss

• 1993 NHL Draft: Victoriaville Tigres (QMJHL) center Alexandre Daigle first pick by Ottawa Senators
• 1994 "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances
• 1994 "Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances
• 1994 104°F (40°C) at Denver, Colorado
• 1994 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico
• 1994 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso, Texas
• 1994 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin, Nevada
• 1994 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, California
• 1994 Air Ivory Fokker-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)

• 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
• 1996 NBA Draft: Georgetown guard Allen Iverson first pick by Philadelphia 76ers
• 1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9)
• 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
• 1997 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Communications Decency Act, inconsistent with the 1st Amendment

• 1999 NHL Draft: Long Beach Ice Dogs (IHL) center Patrik Stefan first pick by Atlanta Thrashers
• 2002 NBA Draft: Shanghai Sharks (China) center Yao Ming first pick by Houston Rockets
• 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

• 2005 US Open Women's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Birdie Kim holes out from a greenside bunker on the 72nd hole to win her lone LPGA title, 2 strokes ahead of teenage amateurs Brittany Lang & Morgan Pressel
• 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional.
• 2008 NBA Draft: Memphis point guard Derrick Rose first pick by Chicago Bulls
• 2011 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Locust Hill CC: Yani Tseng of Taiwan scores her 4th major title win by 10 strokes over Morgan Pressel

• 2013 20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand
• 2013 Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in a leadership battle to become Australian Prime Minister

• 2014 Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident
• 2014 Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
• 2014 NBA Draft: Kansas small forward Andrew Wiggins first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers
• 2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states
• 2015 Gunman opens fire at beach resort in Sousse, Tunisia, killing 38. Isis claims responsibility.
• 2015 Saudi suicide bomber kills 27 at Shia Imam al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait, 227 injured

• 2015 NHL Draft: Erie Otters (OHL) center Connor McDavid first pick by the Edmonton Oilers
• 2016 City of Falluja freed from Islamic State control after a month-long campaign by Iraqi forces
• 2016 Iceland’s presidential election is won by history professor Guðni Jóhannesson

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