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What happened in history on this day: June 26?
On June 26 in ...
- 684 - Saint Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children away from Hamelin.
- 1483 - Richard III usurps English throne.
- 1630 - Sweden enters the German wars, as King Gustav Adolf and 13,000 men land on the island of Usedom off the Pomeranian coast (Poland). His force is comprised of mostly Swedes, with some Scottish and Irish mercenaries. The reasons for entering the war are many, but principally to remove Imperial intervention in Poland.
- 1702 - Birth of Dr Philip Doddridge England, nonconformist clergyman.
- 1730 - Birth of Charles Messier cataloguer of "M objects".
- 1742 - Birth of Arthur Middleton signer Declaration of Independence.
- 1797 - Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow.
- 1819 - The bicycle is patented.
- 1824 - Birth of William Thomson Lord Kelvin, engineer/mathematician/physicist.
- 1830 - William IV becomes new King of England.
- 1854 - Birth of Robert Laird Borden; 8th Canadian Prime Minister (Conservative, 1911-20).
- 1857 - Prince Albert is made Prince Consort to Queen Victoria.
- 1859 - Uruguay government begins issuing postage stamps.
- 1862 - Battle of Beaver Dam Creek - USA repulse Confederacy in Virginia.
- 1862 - Day two of the Seven Days - Battle of Mechanicsville.
- 1865 - Birth of Bernard Berenson; art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance).
- 1870 - First section of Atlantic City (New Jersey) Boardwalk opens.
- 1885 - Death of Charles George Gordon, British general, in Khartoum, Sudan.
- 1887 - Birth of Anthony G de Rothschild; British philanthropist.
- 1892 - Birth of Hubert Julian (Jay) Stowitts; first American star in the Russian ballet, and Anna Pavlova's only American partner.
- 1892 - Birth of Pearl S Buck in China; author (The Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938) (dies 1973).
- 1893 - Birth of Big Bill Broonzy in Mississippi, USA; blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy).
- 1894 - Birth of Bill Wirges in Buffalo, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Growing Paynes).
- 1896 - First cinemaopens, the 400-seat Vitascope Hall in New Orleans, Louisiana. Admission is 10 cents. The cinema uses Thomas Edison's Vitascope projector.
- 1901 - Birth of Stuart Symington; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Missouri).
- 1902 - Birth of Antonia Brico in Rotterdam, Holland; conductor/pianist ("Antonia").
- 1902 - England establishes Order of Merit.
- 1902 - M Wolf and L Carnera discovers asteroid #488 Kreusa.
- 1903 - Birth of Floyd "Babe" Herman; Brooklyn Dodgers' slugger (.324 lifetime average).
- 1904 - Birth of Peter Lorre in Hungary; actor (Suspense radio show, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Mystery in the Air, 77 Sunset Strip, Playhouse 90, M, Casablanca, Beast with Five Fingers).
- 1906 - Alexander Muir, poet (The Maple Leaf Forever), dies at age 76.
- 1909 - Birth of Tom Parker in the Netherlands; manager (Elvis Presley, Minnie Pearl, Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow, Tom Mix).
- 1909 - The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
- 1911 - Birth of Edward Levi; professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning).
- 1911 - Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph).
- 1913 - Birth of Maurice Wilkes; inventor (stored program concept for computers).
- 1914 - Birth of Richard Maltby; orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show).
- 1914 - Birth of Wolfgang Windgassen in Annemasse, Germany; tenor (Stuttgart Opera).
- 1916 - Birth of Alex Dreier in Honolulu, Hawaii; newscaster (What's it all about World?).
- 1916 - Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on their baseball jerseys (one game).
- 1917 - First American Expeditionary Force arrives in France.
- 1919 - First issue of New York Daily News published.
- 1922 - Birth of Eleanor Parker in Ohio, USA; actress (Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker).
- 1922 - Birth of Frances Rafferty in Sioux City, Iowa, USA; actress (December Bride, Abbott and Costello in Hollywood).
- 1924 - After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Dominican Republic.
- 1925 - Birth of Pavel Belyayev in USSR; cosmonaut (Voskhod 2).
- 1925 - In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ted Rogers Senior invents the alternating-current tube, facilitating plug-in batteryless radios.
- 1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island, New York, USA.
- 1928 - Birth of Jacob Druckman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; composer (Animus I Auerole).
- 1933 - Birth of Claudio Abbado in Milan, Italy; conductor (London Symphony - 1982).
- 1934 - Birth of John V Tunney; American politician (Representative/Senator-Democrat-California).
- 1934 - President Franklin Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions.
- 1936 - The Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter, flies for the first time.
- 1936 - L Boyer discovers asteroid #2021 Poincare.
- 1939 - Birth of Charles Robb; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Virginia)/husband of Lynda Bird Johnson.
- 1940 - Birth of Billy Davis Junior in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; singer (Fifth Dimension - "One Less Bell").
- 1940 - End of USSR experimental calendar.
- 1941 - Finland enters war against Russia.
- 1942 - Birth of Larry Taylor; rocker (Canned Heat - "On the Road Again").
- 1943 - Birth of Georgie Fame; rocker ("Get Away", "Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde").
- 1944 - British bombers attack San Marino in the mistaken belief that German forces had taken refuge there.
- 1945 - United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, California, USA.
- 1946 - Birth of Clive Francis in London, England; actor (Masada).
- 1948 - William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1948 - US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin.
- 1948 - U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to West Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade.
- 1949 - Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury.
- 1951 - Birth of Pamela Bellwood in New York City, USA; actress (Ellen - W.E.B., Claudia - Dynasty).
- 1954 - Birth of Robert Davi; actor (Raw Deal).
- 1955 - In South Africa, the African National Congress holds a Congress of the People in Kliptown, officially adopting a Freedom Charter, a statement of the core principles of the party.
- 1955 - Birth of Gedde Watanabe; actor (ER, Sixteen Candles).
- 1955 - Birth of Mick Jones; rocker (Big Audio Dynamite - "Tighten Up", The Clash).
- 1958 - Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed).
- 1959 - Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ.
- 1959 - Queen Elizabeth II and US President Dwight Eisenhower open the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
- 1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed his 500th, and final, guest on Person to Person, actress Lee Remick.
- 1960 - Somaliland gains independence from Britain.
- 1960 - Madagascar gains independence from France.
- 1961 - Birth of Terri Nunn; singer (Berlin).
- 1962 - Boston Red Sox player Earl Wilson no-hits Los Angeles Angels, 2-0.
- 1963 - Birth of Harriet Wheeler; singer (The Sundays).
- 1963 - USA President John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) on a visit to West Berlin.
- 1964 - The Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album.
- 1964 - Birth of Zeng Jinlian in Hunan, China; becomes tallest woman known (2.46 metres, 8 feet 1 inch).
- 1967 - Francoise Dorléac, actress (That Man From Rio), dies at age 35.
- 1968 - Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US.
- 1969 - Birth of Colin Greenwood; bassist (Radiohead).
- 1970 - Birth of Matt Letscher; actor (The New Adventures of Old Christine, Good Morning, Miami).
- 1970 - Frank Robinson hits two grand slams as Baltimore Orioles beat Washington Senators 12-2.
- 1970 - Birth of Sean Hayes; actor (Will and Grace).
- 1970 - Birth of Chris O'Donnell; actor (Grey's Anatomy, The Practice).
- 1974 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a pack of chewing gum in Ohio.
- 1976 - The CN Tower opens in Toronto, Onario, Canada, becoming the world's tallest free standing structure, at 1,815 feet, 5 inches (553.33 meters).
- 1977 - 42 die in fire that inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee.
- 1978 - A bombing by Breton nationalists causes destruction in Versailles, France.
- 1979 - Birth of Ryan Tedder, American singer (OneRepublic).
- 1980 - Birth of Jason Schwartzman; actor (Cracking Up).
- 1980 - A McDonnell Douglas DC-9 belonging to the Italian Airline Itavia crashes into the sea near Palermo after an explosion occurs in the air; 81 people die.
- 1981 - Couples For Christ, a Christian charismatic organization, is established in the Philippines.
- 1981 - MGM releases the film For Your Eyes Only to theaters.
- 1981 - Columbia releases the film Stripes to theaters.
- 1982 - US vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Lebanon.
- 1982 - A Gilmore and P Kilmartin discover asteroid #3521.
- 1983 - Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at age 82.
- 1983 - ABC TV debuts the daytime drama Loving.
- 1985 - Birth of Urgyen Trinley Dorje; Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader.
- 1985 - Walt Disney World Resort Monorail Gold catches fire on the EPCOT beam around 9:00pm due to friction from a flat tire.
- 1985 - In Hartford, Connecticut, USA a 1,500-pound slab of ice, six feet long and eight inches thick, falls from the sky flattening a picket fence, shaking the ground with the impact.
- 1985 - At Jack Russell Stadium, organist Wilbur Snapp is ejected by umpire Keith O'Connor from a Class A Florida League game for playing Three Blind Mice following a close call which goes against the Clearwater Phillies.
- 1987 - Losing 9-0 to Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees score 11 in third and win 12-11 in ten innings.
- 1988 - Birth of Kaitlin Cullum; actress (Grace Under Fire).
- 1988 - Death of Hans Urs von Balthasar, German theologian, cardinal, (born 1905 in Lucerne, Switzerland).
- 1989 - In Hawaii, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs. Two events about 5 seconds apart. Five people injured slightly, 5 homes destroyed and about 100 homes damaged.
- 1990 - U.S. President George H.W Bush breaks his 1988 'no new taxes' campaign pledge, accepting tax revenue increases as a necessity to reduce the budget deficit.
- 1992 - Denmark beats Germany 2-0 in soccer to win Euro 92 at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1995 - Death of Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903).
- 1996 - Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot and killed in her car just outside Dublin, Ireland.
- 1997 - Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister), after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, won the 1997 General Election.
- 1998 - Buena Vista releases the film Doctor Dolittle to theaters.
- 2000 - A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished.
- 2002 - Death of Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (born 1913).
- 2003 - Death of Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (born 1902).
- 2003 - Death of Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon National Soccer Team (born 1975).
- 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court declares sodomy laws unconstitutional.
- 2007 - Death of Anne Elizabeth Jane "Liz" Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, at age 78 (born 1929).
- 2007 - (to July 15) The Copa América 2007 soccer tournament takes place in Venezuela.
- 2008 - The U.S. Senate approves US$161.8 billion in new funds to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the next year.
- 2008 - The US Supreme Court overturns District of Columbia's handgun ban, asserting that individuals have the right to own guns.
- 2008 - Shares of General Motors Corporation drop to their lowest level since 1955, after Goldman Sachs gives the stock a "sell" rating.
- 2009 - The US House of Representatives passes the American Clean Energy and Security Act climate change bill, including cap and trade plan.
- 2010 - Leaders of the eight industrialized nations strongly admonish North Korea and Iran for their nuclear activities in a unanimous statement at the end of the G8 summit in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. The leaders also say they deplore North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship in March as a "challenge to peace and security in the region and beyond."
- 2010 - CDN$50 million jackpot won by two tickets in Canadian Lotto Max lottery.
- 2010 - Death of Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (born 1932).
- 2015 - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ends talks with European Union and International Monetary Fund on more bail-out terms, calling for a referendum on their terms.
- 2016 - The new wider Panama Canal opens, as the first vessel officially sails through. Previously the biggest container ship could have capacity of 5000 standard containers. The new canal allows for ships with 13,000 containers.
- 2017 - Death of Habib Thiam, 3rd Prime Minister of Senegal (born 1933).
- 2021 - Death of Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Acting Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1929).
- 2022 - At Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, USA, NHL Stanley Cup Final, game 6: Colorado Avalanche defeats Tampa Bay Lightning by score 2-1, winning series 4-2.
- 2022 - Death of Margaret Keane at age 94; artist (sad-eyed children).
- 2022 - Death of Mary Mara at age 61, drowned while swimming in the St. Lawrence River near Cape Vincent, New York; actor (ER TV show, Nash Bridges TV show).
- 2022 - Death of Frank Williams at age 90; British stage and screen actor (Timothy Farthing - Dad's Army TV show).
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