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On this day June 26

2015


Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.

2015


The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2013


The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2013


Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.

2012


The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.

2008


A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.

2007


Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.

2006


Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.

2003


The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

2000


Pope John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima.

2000


The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.

1997


The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

1995


Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.

1991


The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.

1978


Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.

1977


Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena

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.

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.

1967


Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.

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.

1960


Madagascar gains its independence from France.

1960


The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.

1959


Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.

1955


The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.

1953


Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.

1952


The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.

1948


Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.

1948


William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.

1948


The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.

1944


The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.

1944


World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.

1942


The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.

1941


World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.

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.

1936


Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.

1934


United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.

1927


The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.

1924


The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.

1918


Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.

1917


The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.

1909


The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.

1906


The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.

1889


Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.

1886


Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.

1870


The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.

1857


The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.

1848


End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.

1843


Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".

1830


William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.

1794


French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft.

1740


A combined force of 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.

1723


After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.

1718


Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.

1579


Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.

1541


Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.

1522


Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.

1483


Richard III becomes King of England.

1460


Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.

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.

1407


Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.

1295


Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.

1243


Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.

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.

684


Pope Benedict II chosen.

363


Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.

221


Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.

4 AD


Augustus adopts Tiberius.

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