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
- 1848 –End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 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.
- 1924 –American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- 1934 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- 1936 –Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- 1941 –World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- 1948 –Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
- 1955 –The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- 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.
- 1996 –Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
Who were born on June 26?
- 1819 –Abner Doubleday, American Major General (d. 1893)
- 1866 –George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
- 1902 –Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor (d. 2010)
- 1907 –Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1938 –Gerald North, American climatologist
- 1941 –Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
- 1957 –Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)
- 1964 –Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish rally driver
- 1970 –Sean Hayes, American actor
- 1973 –Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
Who died on June 26?
- 1856 –Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
- 1878 –Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
- 1946 –Yōsuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
- 1948 –Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)
- 1967 –Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
- 1996 –Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
- 2002 –Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
- 2007 –Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (b. 1914)
- 2007 –Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Sergio Vega, Mexican Banda singer (b.1969)
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