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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1857 –
    The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
  • 1907 –
    The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
  • 1924 –
    American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
  • 1927 –
    The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
  • 1934 –
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
  • 1941 –
    World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
  • 1945 –
    The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
  • 1952 –
    The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
  • 1953 –
    Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
  • 1973 –
    At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
  • 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.
  • 1978 –
    Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
  • 1996 –
    Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
  • 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.

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