About June 26

June 26, 2025 is the 177th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 236 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.
  • 363 –
    Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
  • 1284 –
    the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
  • 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.
  • 1870 –
    The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1942 –
    The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
  • 1948 –
    The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
  • 1952 –
    The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
  • 1959 –
    The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America’s Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
  • 1973 –
    At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 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
  • 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.
  • 1997 –
    The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • 2006 –
    Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
  • 2008 –
    The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right, and that the District of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional.

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