# What happened on June 26 in history?

**Date:** June 26  
**Events recorded:** 72  
**Years spanned:** 4 – 2024  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/june/26/

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## Featured Event

**2015** — The U.S. Supreme Court rules, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States)

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## Events on this date

- **4** — Augustus adopts Tiberius. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0s))
- **221** — Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and grants him the title of Caesar. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_emperor))
- **363** — Roman emperor Julian is fatally wounded by Sassanid troops in a skirmish close to Samarra while retreating from his failed siege of Ctesiphon. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_(emperor)))
- **684** — Pope Benedict II is consecrated as pope following imperial approval from the Byzantine Emperor. He is the last pope to require the confirmation of the emperor, the next popes require only that of the more closely situated exarch of Ravenna. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_II))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_no_Gy%C5%8Dja))
- **1243** — Mongols under Baiju Noyan defeat the Seljuk Turks under Kaykhusraw II at the Battle of Köse Dağ. The Sultanate of Rum becomes subsequently a vassal to the Mongol Empire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiju_Noyan))
- **1243** — Election of pope Innocent IV following the death of pope Celestine IV in 1241. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1243_papal_election))
- **1295** — Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemys%C5%82_II))
- **1407** — Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_von_Jungingen))
- **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 XIII in Avignon. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism))
- **1460** — War of the Roses: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses))
- **1483** — Richard III becomes King of England. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England))
- **1522** — Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(1522)))
- **1539** — Afghan Sur forces under Sher Shah Suri defeat a Mughal army under Humayun in the battle of Chausa. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sur_Empire))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro))
- **1579** — Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian_campaign_of_Stephen_B%C3%A1thory))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Petrovich%2C_Tsarevich_of_Russia))
- **1723** — After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1722%E2%80%931723)))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bloody_Mose))
- **1794** — French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marks the first successful military use of aircraft and turns the tide of the War of the First Coalition. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars))
- **1830** — William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover following the death without surviving legitimate issue of his older brother George IV. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV))
- **1843** — Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity". ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nanking))
- **1848** — End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Days_uprising))
- **1857** — The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross))
- **1886** — Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Moissan))
- **1889** — Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangui))
- **1906** — The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_French_Grand_Prix))
- **1909** — The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Museum%2C_London))
- **1917** — World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat in the Battle of Hamel on July 4. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1918** — World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I))
- **1924** — The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Government_of_Santo_Domingo))
- **1927** — The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island_Cyclone))
- **1934** — United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt))
- **1936** — Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_61))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1941** — World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Kassa))
- **1942** — The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F6F_Hellcat))
- **1944** — World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino))
- **1944** — World War II: 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Osuchy))
- **1945** — The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_United_Nations))
- **1948** — Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War))
- **1948** — William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley))
- **1948** — Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" is published in The New Yorker magazine. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson))
- **1952** — The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_of_Malaya))
- **1953** — Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria))
- **1955** — The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Charter))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingemar_Johansson))
- **1960** — The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Somaliland))
- **1960** — Madagascar gains its independence from France. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar))
- **1963** — Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy))
- **1967** — Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) is made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation))
- **1977** — Elvis Presley holds what will prove to be his final concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_189))
- **1981** — Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan-Air_Flight_240))
- **1988** — The first crash of an Airbus A320 occurs when Air France Flight 296Q crashes at Mulhouse–Habsheim Airfield in Habsheim, France, during an air show, killing three of the 136 people on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320_family))
- **1991** — Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars))
- **1995** — Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamad_bin_Khalifa_Al_Thani))
- **1997** — The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States))
- **1997** — J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in United Kingdom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling))
- **2000** — The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project))
- **2003** — The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that sex-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States))
- **2006** — Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Alkatiri))
- **2007** — Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI))
- **2008** — A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Karmah_bombing))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_Canyon_Fire))
- **2013** — Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2013_Shanshan_riots))
- **2013** — The U.S. Supreme Court rules, 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_June_2015_Islamist_attacks))
- **2015** — The U.S. Supreme Court rules, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States))
- **2024** — Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the United States Department of Justice. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange))

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## Notable births on June 26

- **2005** — **Princess Alexia of the Netherlands** ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alexia_of_the_Netherlands))
- **2004** — **Mikey Williams** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikey_Williams_(basketball%2C_born_2004)))
- **2002** — **Chandler Smith** — American race car driver ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Smith))
- **2002** — **Manon Bannerman** — Swiss singer and dancer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Bannerman))
- **2000** — **Ann Li** — American tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Li_(tennis)))
- **1997** — **Baek Ye-rin** — South Korean singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerin_Baek))
- **1997** — **Jacob Elordi** — Australian actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Elordi))
- **1997** — **Callum Taylor** — English cricketer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callum_Taylor_(English_cricketer)))
- **1994** — **Hollie Arnold** — English javelin thrower ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollie_Arnold))
- **1994** — **Leonard Carow** — German actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Carow))

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## Notable deaths on June 26

- **2025** — **Carolyn McCarthy** — American nurse and politician (born 1944) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_McCarthy))
- **2025** — **Bill Moyers** — American journalist, 13th White House Press Secretary (born 1934) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Moyers))
- **2025** — **Lalo Schifrin** — Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalo_Schifrin))
- **2025** — **Takutai Tarsh Kemp** — New Zealand politician (born 1975) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takutai_Tarsh_Kemp))
- **2024** — **Taiki Matsuno** — Japanese voice actor (born 1967) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiki_Matsuno))
- **2022** — **Margaret Keane** — American artist (born 1927) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane))
- **2021** — **Mike Gravel** — American politician (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel))
- **2020** — **Milton Glaser** — American graphic designer (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser))
- **2019** — **Beth Chapman** — American reality Television star, Bounty Hunter (born 1967) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Chapman))
- **2015** — **Yevgeny Primakov** — Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Primakov))

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