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
• 1243 Battle of Köse Dağ: Mongols under Baiju defeat Seljuk army of Sultan Kaykhusraw II during Mongol attacks in north east Turkey

• 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

• 1604 French expedition led by Pierre Dugua de Monts lands at Île Sainte-Croix to found settlement of Acadia in New France - later moved to Port Royal [1]
• 1630 Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
• 1714 Spain & Netherlands sign peace and trade agreement
• 1718 Peter the Great's son, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia dies from the effects of torture 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

• 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

• 1907 Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
• 1909 Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
• 1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)

• 1915 Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
• 1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on jerseys in a game against Chicago WS; first time MLB players identified by numbers corresponding to those on scorecard
• 1917 First 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 Theatrical revue "Ziegfeld Follies of 1924", featuring Billie Burke and W.C. Fields, opens at the New Amsterdam Theatre, NYC

• 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 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
• 1935 SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
• 1935 Surrey's former England Test cricket batsman Andy Sandham scores his 100th first class century (103) v Hampshire at Basingstoke
• 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 all-time great English batsman Len Hutton v New Zealand in 1st Tests 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 railroad terminal at Mersa Matruh, Egypt
• 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

• 1948 US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin
• 1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
• 1950 President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence

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

• 1955 Freedom Charter signed in South Africa

• 1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
• 1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

• 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 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Joyce Ziske wins on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Barbara Romack
• 1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
• 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 Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo
• 1965 Wallon party forms in Belgium
• 1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland

• 1968 10-year-old English girl Mary Bell strangles four-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (later convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility)
• 1968 Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions

• 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

• 1972 Australian swing bowler Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut in 2nd Test vs England at Lord's
• 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 Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease", starring Richard Gere, opens at the New London Theatre
• 1973 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
• 1974 The Universal Product Code (UPC) 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 CN Tower opens in Toronto - at 553 metres (1,815 feet), the tallest freestanding structure in the world (surpassed by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa 2009) [1]

• 1976 Washington Senators player Toby Harrah plays an entire doubleheader at shortstop without a single chance in the field
• 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.
• 1977 Tim Severin aboard the Brendan reaches Newfoundland in attempt to prove sixth-century Irish monks could have voyaged across the Atlantic
• 1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
• 1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
• 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched

• 1979 British rock drummer Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, accidentally crashes, and kills another driver
• 1979 The Village People become the first disco act to play Madison Square Garden, NYC

• 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
• 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

• 1989 Supreme Court rules 16-year-olds can receive the death penalty
• 1990 122°F in Phoenix Arizona
• 1990 8 Kansas & Oklahoma radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
• 1990 African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela addresses a joint session of US Congress in Washington, D.C. [1]
• 1990 New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall
• 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
• 1993 NHL Draft: Victoriaville Tigres (QMJHL) center Alexandre Daigle first pick by Ottawa Senators

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

• 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.
• 2008 NBA Draft: Memphis point guard Derrick Rose first pick by Chicago Bulls
• 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.

• 2012 Police procedural drama "Line of Duty" debuts on BBC 2 in the UK
• 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 Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
• 2014 Joel Embiid is selected with the third overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2014 NBA draft

• 2014 NBA Draft: Kansas small forward Andrew Wiggins first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers

• 2015 Gunman opens fire at beach resort in Sousse, Tunisia, killing 38. Isis claims responsibility.
• 2015 NHL Draft: Erie Otters (OHL) center Connor McDavid #1 pick by the Edmonton Oilers
• 2015 Saudi suicide bomber kills 27 at Shia Imam al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait, 227 injured

• 2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states
• 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
• 2016 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
• 2017 America's Cup: Emirates Team New Zealand defeat Oracle Team USA 7-1 in Bermuda, Peter Burling (26) youngest ever helmsman

• 2017 Helicopter with rogue police pilot attacks Venezuelan Supreme Court in Caracas

• 2018 "The Bee Gees" singer-songwriter Barry Gibb is knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace
• 2018 First high level talks between Ethiopian and Eritrean officials in 20 years begins in Addis Ababa
• 2018 Hello Kitty bullet train unveiled by the West Japan Railway
• 2018 India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labour by the Thomson Reuters Foundation

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