June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 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.
- 699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
- 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.
- 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
- 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.
- 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
- 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
- 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.
- 1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
- 1907 – The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- 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.
- 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, ends with the defeat of the Polish resistance forces.
- 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
- 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.
- 1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
- 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.
- 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- 1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
- 1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
- 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
- 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
- 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.
- 1991 – Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
- 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
- 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.
- 2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
Births
- 1501 – Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator, and poet (d. 1572)
- 1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (d. 1612)
- 1582 – Johannes Schultz, German composer (d. 1653)
- 1681 – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708)
- 1685 – Antonio Bernacchi, Italian castrato and composer (d. 1756)
- 1689 – Edward Holyoke, American clergyman, 9th President of Harvard University (d. 1769)
- 1694 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
- 1702 – Philip Doddridge, English religious leader, educator, and hymnwriter (d. 1751)
- 1703 – Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (d. 1767)
- 1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
- 1798 – Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
- 1817 – Branwell Bronte, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
- 1819 – Abner Doubleday, American general (d. 1893)
- 1821 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and politician (d. 1906)
- 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist and engineer (d. 1907)
- 1835 – Thomas W. Knox, American author (d. 1896)
- 1838 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian writer (d.1894)
- 1839 – Sam Watkins, American soldier and author (d. 1901)
- 1854 – Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician (d. 1937)
- 1865 – Bernard Berenson, American historian (d. 1959)
- 1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (d. 1923)
- 1869 – Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954)
- 1880 – Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952)
- 1881 – Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet (d. 1960)
- 1885 – Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (d. 1950)
- 1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1895 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
- 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
- 1898 – Chesty Puller, American military officer (d. 1971)
- 1899 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1901 – Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
- 1902 – Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor (d. 2010)
- 1903 – Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)
- 1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
- 1904 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964)
- 1905 – Lynd Ward, American artist and storyteller (d. 1985)
- 1906 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys) (d. 1974)
- 1906 – Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)
- 1907 – Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1909 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997)
- 1909 – Wolfgang Reitherman, American animator (d. 1985)
- 1911 – Babe Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956)
- 1913 – Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician (d. 2008)
- 1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist (d. 2010)
- 1914 – Kathryn Johnston, American police shooting victim (d. 2006)
- 1914 – Laurie Lee, English writer (d. 1997)
- 1915 – Paul Castellano, American mobster (d. 1985)
- 1915 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author
- 1916 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988)
- 1916 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian opera singer (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Richard Neustadt, American historian (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Violette Szabo, French secret agent (d. 1945)
- 1922 – Walter Farley, American author (d. 1989)
- 1922 – Eleanor Parker, American actress
- 1923 – Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
- 1924 – Kostas Axelos, Greek philosopher (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet pilot (d. 1970)
- 1927 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (d. 2011)
- 1928 – Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)
- 1928 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
- 1929 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer
- 1931 – Colin Wilson, English writer
- 1933 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
- 1933 – Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981)
- 1934 – Dave Grusin, American pianist and composer
- 1934 – Jeremy Wolfenden, English journalist (d. 1965)
- 1936 – Robert Maclennan, English politician
- 1936 – Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian archbishop
- 1936 – Nancy Willard, American author, poet, and novelist
- 1935 – Dwight York, American singer, writer, and criminal (Passion)
- 1937 – Sombat Metanee, Thai actor
- 1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 – Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension)
- 1938 – Gerald North, American educator
- 1940 – Vyacheslav Ionov, Russian sprinter (b. 2012)
- 1941 – Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
- 1942 – James J. Dillon, American wrestler and manager
- 1942 – Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician
- 1943 – John Beasley, American actor
- 1943 – Georgie Fame, English singer and pianist (Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings)
- 1943 – Warren Farrell, American author
- 1944 – Wolfgang Weber, German footballer
- 1951 – Pamela Bellwood, American actress
- 1951 – Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer
- 1953 – Robert Davi, American actor
- 1954 – Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1955 – Mick Jones, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, General Public, Carbon/Silicon, and London SS)
- 1955 – Dick Mol, Dutch paleonthologist
- 1955 – Gedde Watanabe, American actor
- 1956 – Chris Isaak, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1957 – Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter (Scandal)
- 1957 – Philippe Couillard, Canadian surgeon and politician
- 1959 – Mark McKinney, Canadian actor
- 1960 – Zachary Breaux, American guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1961 – Greg LeMond, American cyclist
- 1961 – Terri Nunn, American singer and actress (Berlin)
- 1962 – Jerome Kersey, American basketball player
- 1962 – Preston A. Whitmore II, American screenwriter, producer, and director
- 1963 – Richard Garfield, American game designer, created Magic: The Gathering
- 1963 – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman
- 1963 – Mark McClellan, American politician
- 1963 – Harriet Wheeler, English singer (The Sundays)
- 1964 – Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
- 1966 – Dany Boon, French director, actor, and writer
- 1966 – [[Yūko Minaguchi], Japanese voice actress
- 1966 – Jürgen Reil, American drummer (Kreator)
- 1967 – Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer
- 1968 – Isshin Chiba, Japanese voice actor
- 1968 – Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
- 1968 – Shannon Sharpe, American football player
- 1969 – Colin Greenwood, English musician and composer (Radiohead)
- 1969 – Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer
- 1969 – Mike Myers, American baseball player
- 1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson, American director, writer, and producer
- 1970 – Irv Gotti, American record producer, co-founded The Inc. Records
- 1970 – Sean Hayes, American actor
- 1970 – Takeshi Konomi, Japanese artist
- 1970 – Matt Letscher, American actor
- 1970 – Chris O'Donnell, American actor
- 1970 – Nick Offerman, American actor
- 1971 – Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
- 1972 – Garou, Canadian singer
- 1972 – Asako Tajimi, Japanese volleyball player
- 1972 – Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper
- 1973 – Rebecca Budig, American actress
- 1973 – Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lordi)
- 1973 – Gretchen Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1974 – Jason Craig, American artist
- 1974 – Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)
- 1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player
- 1974 – Jason Kendall, American baseball player
- 1974 – Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer and actress (The 4 Cats)
- 1974 – Matt Striker, American wrestler and actor
- 1975 – KJ-52, American rapper (Sons of Intellect and Peace of Mind)
- 1975 – Chris Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 – Terry Skiverton, English footballer
- 1976 – Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 – Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
- 1976 – Chad Pennington, American football player
- 1977 – Mark Jindrak, American wrestler
- 1977 – Florian Kehrmann, German handball player
- 1977 – Tite Kubo, Japanese artist
- 1977 – Quincy Lewis, American basketball player
- 1979 – Brandi Burkhardt, American actress and singer
- 1979 – Ryo Fukuda, Japanese race car driver
- 1979 – Wálter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
- 1979 – Ryan Tedder, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (OneRepublic)
- 1980 – Sinik, French singer and rapper
- 1980 – Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros, Togolese footballer
- 1980 – Jason Schwartzman, American actor
- 1980 – Chris Shelton, American baseball player
- 1980 – Michael Vick, American football player
- 1981 – Kanako Kondō, Japanese voice actress
- 1981 – Damien Sargue, French singer and actor
- 1981 – Takashi Toritani, Japanese baseball player
- 1982 – Zuzana Kučová, Slovak tennis player
- 1983 – Vinícius Rodrigues Almeida, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Toyonoshima Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1983 – Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Antonio Rosati, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Jose Juan Barea, American basketball player
- 1984 – Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
- 1984 – Raymond Felton, American basketball player
- 1984 – Aubrey Plaza, American comedian, writer and actress
- 1984 – Gabrielle Walcott, Spanish model, Miss Trinidad & Tobago Universe 2011
- 1984 – Deron Williams, American basketball player
- 1985 – Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader, 17th Karmapa Lama
- 1986 – Xisco, Spanish footballer
- 1987 – Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian race car driver
- 1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer
- 1988 – Amanda Marchant, English singer
- 1988 – Sam Marchant, English singer
- 1988 – Rina Nakanishi, Japanese model and singer (AKB48)
- 1988 – Oliver Stang, German footballer
- 1988 – Masakazu Tashiro, Japanese footballer
- 1991 – Houssem Chemali, French footballer
- 1991 – Diego Falcinelli, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer
- 1992 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
- 1993 – Ariana Grande, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1994 – Leonard Carow, German actor
- 1995 – Reema Major, Sudanese-Canadian rapper and songwriter
- 2005 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
Deaths
- 363 – Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (b. 332)
- 1541 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru
- 1688 – Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)
- 1784 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
- 1793 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist (b. 1720)
- 1795 – Johannes Jährig, German linguist (b. 1747)
- 1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
- 1836 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (b. 1760)
- 1856 – Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
- 1878 – Mercedes of Orléans (b. 1860)
- 1918 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843)
- 1922 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
- 1939 – Ford Madox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
- 1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
- 1945 – Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
- 1946 – Max Kögel, German SS officer (b. 1895)
- 1946 – Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese diplomat (b. 1880)
- 1947 – Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
- 1948 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)
- 1949 – Kim Gu, Korean politician and educator, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
- 1950 – Sahajanand Saraswati, Indian polymath, historian, philosopher, and writer (b. 1889)
- 1955 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer, designer, and inventor (b. 1895)
- 1956 – Clifford Brown, American trumpeter and composer (b. 1930)
- 1956 – Richie Powell, American pianist (b. 1931)
- 1957 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
- 1958 – George Orton, Canadian runner (b. 1873)
- 1958 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and diplomat (b. 1888)
- 1964 – Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian businessman and coach (b. 1889)
- 1964 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect and designer (b. 1888)
- 1967 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
- 1975 – Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest (b. 1902)
- 1980 – Miriam Daly, Irish activist (b. 1928)
- 1990 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (b. 1909)
- 1992 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (b. 1921)
- 1993 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
- 1993 – William H. Riker, American scientist (b. 1920)
- 1994 – Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and activist (b. 1929)
- 1996 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
- 1997 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, American singer-songwriter and musician (Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau) (b. 1959)
- 2001 – Soccer, American dog actor (b. 1988)
- 2002 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
- 2002 – Arnold Brown, English-Canadian 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
- 2003 – Denver Randleman, American sergeant (b. 1920)
- 2003 – Denis Thatcher, English businessman, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Strom Thurmond, American politician (b. 1902)
- 2004 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Richard Whiteley, English game show host (b. 1943)
- 2006 – Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (b. 1953)
- 2007 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer (b. 1929)
- 2007 – Joey Sadler, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Sergio Vega, Mexican singer (b. 1969)
- 2012 – Sverker Åström, Swedish diplomat (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Daniel Batman, Australian sprinter (b. 1981)
- 2012 – Pat Cummings, American basketball player (b. 1956)
- 2012 – Juan Dyrzka, Argentine hurdler (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Nora Ephron, American director, producer, and writer (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Mario O'Hara, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Doris Singleton, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Risley C. Triche, American attorney and politician (b. 1927)
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