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, 477,600 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 ‘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
- 1284 –the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
- 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.
- 1870 –The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1907 –The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
- 1917 –The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
- 1952 –The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
- 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
- 1995 –Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
- 2003 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
- 2008 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right, and that the District of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional.
Who were born on June 26?
- 1703 –Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)
- 1909 –Wolfgang Reitherman, American animator (d. 1985)
- 1914 –Kathryn Johnston, American police shooting victim (d. 2006)
- 1931 –Colin Wilson, British writer
- 1955 –Dick Mol, Dutch paleonthologist
- 1961 –Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
- 1968 –Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
- 1974 –Derek Jeter, American baseball player
- 1975 –Chris Armstrong, Canadian hockey player
- 1976 –Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
Who died on June 26?
- 363 –Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (b. 331)
- 1918 –Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (b. 1843)
- 1922 –Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
- 1945 –Emil Hácha, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
- 1975 –Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)
- 1980 –Miriam Daly, Irish republican activist (b. 1928)
- 1993 –Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
- 1996 –Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
- 2007 –Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
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