June 26 Zodiac, Events, Birthdays and Holidays

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 26. From 1900 until now. June 26 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Ariana Grande (1993), Benoît Hamon (1967) and Garou (singer) (1972). Several movies were released around June 26 over the years, such as Mr. Malcolm's List in 2022 directed by Emma Holly Jones and The Baby-Sitters Club in 2020 directed by Melanie Mayron.
But much more happened on June 26 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Saints John and Paul
United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Flag Day in Romania
Sunthorn Phu Day in Thailand
Independence Day in Madagascar
Saint Josemarfa Escrivá (d. 1975)
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2019 Three suicide bombers tried to storm a Balochistan police housing complex. Guards killed one of the attackers. The two other attackers entered and set themselves on fire, killing a senior officer and injuring five more. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility
2018 Syrian Civil War: Eastern Daraa Offensive (June 2018: Syrian Army troops and Liwa al-Quds Militiamen take control of Busra al-Harir, in the southern Daraa Governorate. Recent fighting has caused approximately 45,000 displacements in the region. (BBC).Syrian state media reports that two Israeli missiles hit targets near Damascus International Airport, including an Iranian cargo aircraft just landing.
2017 Colombian peace process: The United Nations confirms the FARC's disarmament process is complete. Former rebels will be able to transition to civilian life, and the group will become a legal political party.
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014-17): Battle of Fallujah (2016). The commander of counter-terrorism forces that participated in the offensive claims that Fallujah was "fully liberated".
2015 Somali Civil War: Al Shabaab militants attack a base of the African Union in Leego, Somalia. They kill more than 70 African Union soldiers before seizing control of the military base.
2014 2014 Northern Iraq offensive: Nouri al Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq, confirms that the Syrian Air Force attacked Islamic State in Iraq and Levant positions in Iraq earlier this week. (BBC). Insurgents seize Mansouriyat al-Jabal. It is located 110km northeast from Baghdad and contains four natural gas fields. (Reuters) Iraqi forces launch an aerial assault on Tikrit rebel-held, with at least one helicopter crashing.
2013 A bomb that was meant to strike Justice Maqbool Baqar, a judge at the Sindh High Court, explodes in Karachi, Pakistan. It kills nine people and injures several more.
2012 Arab Spring
2011 Arab Spring
2010 Four people were killed when gunmen attacked a jewelry shop in western Iraq Saturday morning. They then fled with large quantities of gold from Fallujah, which is located 40 miles (65 km) west of Baghdad.
2009 The American Clean Energy and Security Act Climate Change Bill is passed by the US House of Representatives. It also includes a cap and trade plan.
2008 After Goldman Sachs rates the stock "sell", General Motors Corporation shares drop to their lowest point since 1955.
2007 Two oil refineries in Bolivia are reclaimed by Petrobras, the Brazilian state-owned energy company.
2006 As a protection against child abduction, electronic IDs will be distributed in Belgium to children under 12 years of age. They will include a code and a hotline.
2005 Richard Whiteley, the host of Channel 4's game show Countdown for 23 years, has died at the age of 61.
2004 Pakistan's Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali resigns.
2003 In Lawrence v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gender-based sodomy laws were unconstitutional.
2002 Law - A federal court in San Francisco ruled that the Pledge to Allegiance was unconstitutional because it contained an ampquotunder Godampquot clause.
2000 As part of the Human Genome Project's preliminary draft, a final version of the genomes is available.
1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations
1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1995 Gunmen ambush Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed
1994 PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1993 Late Night with David Letterman airs for last time on NBC-TV
1992 India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
1991 Getting Married opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 70 performances
1990 8 KS and OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
1989 Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen
1988 Air France Flight 296 crashes into the tops of trees beyond the runway on a demonstration flight at Habsheim, France three passengers are killed.
1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement
1985 Walt Disney World Resort Monorail Gold catches fire on the EPCOT beam around 9:00pm due to friction from a flat tire.
1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
1983 Loving premieres on TV
1982 Carlos Lopes runs Europe record 10k (27:34.39)
1981 For Your Eyes Only premieres in US
1980 Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the sea near Palermo after an explosion occurs in the air 81 people die. A bomb or a missile is suspected to be the cause of the accident but no culprits are ever found.
1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1976 WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball
1975 Cher divorces Sonny Bono
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
1973 London production of Grease premieres
1972 IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland
1971 Angels suspend Alex Johnson
1970 Frank Robinson hits two grand slams as Baltimore Orioles beat Washington Senators 12-2.
1968 Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions
1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals
1966 Time for Singing closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 performances
1965 Wallon party forms in Belgium
1964 Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine
1963 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo, Illinois
1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
1959 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title
1958 Gaston Eyskens becomes Premier of Belgium
1955 Actor Geoffrey Holder marries Carmen de Lavallade
1954 Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
1953 KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
1952 Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
1950 The South African Parliament passes the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950.
1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin.
1946 Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
1942 German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
1941 Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
1940 End of the USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6 / 27
1938 Cin Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
1936 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
1935 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions
1933 The ''American Totalisator Company'' unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine at the Arlington Park race track near Chicago.
1929 ENKA / Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU
1927 Comet 7P / Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
1924 Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway
1922 Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
1919 New York Daily News begins publishing
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.
1917 The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on their jerseys (one game).
1915 Germany suppresses its Vorwarts newspaper after it called for peace
1912 Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph).
1910 24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (64 62)
1909 23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach
1907 Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
1906 Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix
1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever.
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