What are the important events that happened on June 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 26: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 26 is the 178th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 13, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,656,000 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontaoctagon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 217 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,205 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 26 Historical Events
- 221 –Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
- 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.
- 1942 –The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
- 1948 –Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
- 1948 –The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on June 26?
- 1824 –William Thomson, Irish-born physicist (d. 1907)
- 1865 –Bernard Berenson, American art historian (d. 1959)
- 1880 –Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952)
- 1901 –Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
- 1913 –Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010)
- 1916 –Giuseppe Taddei, Italian opera singer (d. 2010)
- 1957 –Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)
- 1963 –Richard Garfield, American game designer
- 1966 –Jürgen Reil, American drummer (Kreator)
- 1971 –Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
Who died on June 26?
- 1541 –Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru
- 1784 –Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
- 1878 –Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
- 1922 –Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
- 1943 –Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
- 1947 –Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
- 1964 –Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
- 1964 –Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian sports executive (b. 1889)
- 2004 –Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)
- 2010 –Sergio Vega, Mexican Banda singer (b.1969)
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