June 26

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 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in 1972 directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and The Secret of NIMH in 1982 directed by Don Bluth.
But much more happened on June 26 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Saints John and Paul
The United Nations' Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
Flag Day in Romania
Sunthorn Phu Day in Thailand
Independence Day in Madagascar
Saint Josemarfa Escriv� (d. 1975)
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2019 In Pakistan three suicide bombers attempted to storm a police housing complex in the southern Balochistan province. One of them was killed by guards, while the two others entered and blew themselves up, killing a senior constable and wounding five others. The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility (Reuters)
2018 Syrian Civil War: Eastern Daraa offensive (June 2018): Syrian Army troops and Liwa al-Quds militiamen seize control of the strategic town of Busra al-Harir in the southern Daraa Governorate. Around 45,000 people have been displaced in the region due to recent fighting. (BBC)Syrian state media reports two Israeli missiles struck targets near Damascus International Airport overnight, including an Iranian cargo plane which had just landed. (Al Jazeera)
2017 Colombian peace process: The United Nations confirms that the FARC has completed its disarmament process, with former rebels due to make the transition to civilian life and the group to transform into a legal political party in the country. (Al Jazeera)
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): Battle of Fallujah (2016): The head of the counter terrorism forces which partook in the offensive says that the city of Fallujah has been "fully liberated". (AP)
2015 Somali Civil War: Al Shabaab militants attack an African Union base in the Leego district of Somalia and kills more than 70 African Union soldiers and seizes control of their military base. (Reuters) (VOA News)
2014 2014 Northern Iraq offensive: The Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki confirms that the Syrian Air Force bombed Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant positions in Iraq earlier in the week. (BBC)Insurgents capture the town of Mansouriyat al-Jabal, containing four natural gas fields, which is about 110km northeast of Baghdad. (Reuters)Iraqi forces launch an airborne assault on rebel-held Tikrit with at least one helicopter crashing. (Reuters via The Nation)
2013 At least nine people are killed and several others injured as a bomb targeted at Sindh High Court judge Justice Maqbool Baqar explodes in the Pakistani city of Karachi. (The Express Tribune) (Dawn)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 Arab Spring:
2010 Gunmen raided a jewelry shop Saturday morning in western Iraq, killing four people before fleeing with a large amount of gold in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad. (Arab News)
2009 The US House of Representatives passes the American Clean Energy and Security Act climate change bill, including cap and trade plan.
2008 Shares of General Motors Corporation drop to their lowest level since 1955, after Goldman Sachs gives the stock a "sell" rating.
2007 Bolivia reclaims two oil refineries from Brazilian state-owned energy company Petrobras. (BBC)
2006 Electronic IDs will be distributed to all under the age of 12 in Belgium, as a means of protection from child abduction, and will carry a special code in addition to a hotline. (The Telegraph Group Limited)
2005 Richard Whiteley, who for 23 years presented the Channel 4 game show Countdown, died aged 61.
2004 Pakistan's Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali resigns. (BBC)
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2002 Law – A federal court in San Francisco, California, ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional, because of its ampquotunder Godampquot clause.
2000 A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished.
1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9)
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 (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
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 (General Kunstzijde Union)
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 (60 61)
1907 Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
1906 Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever.
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