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 177th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 13, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 486,360 hours 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 ‘hectaheptacontaheptagon’ day.
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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 236 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 4,570 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 26 Historical Events
- 363 –Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
- 1284 –the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
- 1848 –End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 1927 –The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- 1942 –The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
- 1955 –The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- 1997 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 2006 –Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
Who were born on June 26?
- 1821 –Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and politician (d. 1906)
- 1901 –Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
- 1904 –Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964)
- 1921 –Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)
- 1938 –Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension)
- 1957 –Philippe Couillard, Quebec neurosurgeon and politician
- 1963 –Harriet Wheeler, British singer (The Sundays)
- 1968 –Shannon Sharpe, American football player
- 1970 –Nick Offerman, American actor
- 1974 –Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)
Who died on June 26?
- 363 –Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (b. 331)
- 1541 –Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru
- 1688 –Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)
- 1939 –Ford Madox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
- 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)
- 1956 –Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
- 1980 –Miriam Daly, Irish republican activist (b. 1928)
- 1994 –Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and activist (b. 1929)
- 2004 –Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
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