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
- 363 –Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
- 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.
- 1848 –End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 1857 –The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
- 1870 –The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1907 –The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
- 1917 –The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
- 1936 –Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- 1941 –World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- 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.
- 1948 –William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1952 –The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
- 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
- 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.
- 1978 –Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
- 1997 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 2003 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
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