A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on June 26 throughout history.
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Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by troops on the battlefield.
Battle of Fleurus: Major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) with the first use of a reconnaissance balloon
The first 62 recipients receive the Victoria Cross for valor in the Crimean War from Queen Victoria
The Kingdom of Portugal had been allied with England since 1373, and thus the Republic of Portugal was an ally of the United Kingdom.
The Charter of the United Nations, also referred to as the UN Charter, is the foundational treaty of the United Nations.
Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
Silent film "The Gold Rush," directed, starring, and written by Charlie Chaplin, is released and becomes the fifth highest-grossing silent film of all time
Richard Wagner's opera "Die Walküre" (The Valkyrie), the second in his Ring Cycle, premieres in Munich, featuring "Ride of the Valkyries"
America's Cup: Emirates Team New Zealand defeats Oracle Team USA 7-1 in Bermuda, making Peter Burling (26) the youngest helmsman to win the cup
Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (32) weds Swedish Sara Elisabeth Moræa (23), until his death in 1778
American future US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (24) weds Janet Pomeroy Avery (21) in Auburn, New York, until his death in 1959
American poet T. S. Eliot (26) weds British governess Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27) at Hampstead Register Office in London, England; formally separate in 1933
NFL quarterback Johnny Unitas (39) divorces first wife Dorothy Hoelle after nearly 2 decades of marriage
English-American actress Elizabeth Taylor's 5th divorce from Welsh actor Richard Burton, after just over 10 years of marriage
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American singer, songwriter, actor, and politician.
St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
Battle of Köse Dağ: Mongols under Baiju defeat Seljuk army of Sultan Kaykhusraw II during Mongol attacks in north east Turkey
According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away
Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V
Battle of Chausa: Afghan and northern Indian leader Sher Shah Suri defeats Mughal Emperor Humayun in Bihar in major battle involving 200,000 forces
Maurice, Prince of Orange conquers the Spanish-held Southern Dutch city of Geertruidenberg after a siege of two months, establishing his fame
French expedition led by Pierre Dugua de Monts lands at Île Sainte-Croix to found settlement of Acadia in New France - later moved to Port Royal [1]
Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
The Peace of Ryswick, or Rijswijk, were a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697.
Peter the Great's son, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia dies from the effects of torture after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him
Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow, though farmers fear effects of iron on soil
Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
Hong Kong was under British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945.
1st pure food law enacted in US
The Battle of Gaines' Mill, also known as the Battle of Chickahominy River, took place on June 27, 1862, in Hanover County, Virginia, as the third of the Seven Days Battles which together decided the...
1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on jerseys in a game against Chicago WS; first time MLB players identified by numbers corresponding to those on scorecard
The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed
NY Daily News begins publishing
The emergency decrees under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution are invoked by the government to deal with deteriorating economic conditions
The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, arrived at a large island in the western Atlantic Ocean, later known as the...
Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
The German–Polish declaration of non-aggression (German: Erklärung zwischen Deutschland und Polen über den Verzicht auf Gewaltanwendung, Polish: Deklaracja między Polską a Niemcami o niestosowaniu...
Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ
Test cricket debut of all-time great English batsman Len Hutton v New Zealand in 1st Tests at Lord's; scores 0 & 1
Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
German assault on British railroad terminal at Mersa Matruh, Egypt
2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs
Arnoldus Jozephus Meijer (5 May 1905 – 17 June 1965) was a Dutch fascist politician. Meijer was born in Haarlemmermeer.
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence
KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
Freedom Charter signed in South Africa
British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north,...
Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
10-year-old English girl Mary Bell strangles four-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (later convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility)
Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. (May 18, 1937 – September 26, 2023) was an American baseball player who played his entire 23-year career in Major League Baseball as a third baseman for the Baltimore...
Alex Johnson (December 7, 1942 – February 28, 2015) was an American professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1964 to 1976, for the Philadelphia Phillies, St.
Australian swing bowler Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut in 2nd Test vs England at Lord's
The Universal Product Code (UPC) is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
CN Tower opens in Toronto - at 553 metres (1,815 feet), the tallest freestanding structure in the world (surpassed by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa 2009) [1]
42 die in a fire caused by an inmate at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee
Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine, killing two of the 107 passengers on board
Carlos Lopes runs European record 10km (27:34.39)
"Loving" premieres on TV
1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona. With over 1.6 million residents at the 2020 census, Phoenix is the fifth-most populous city in the United States and the...
Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
Alexandre Daigle is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A highly touted junior prospect, Daigle was drafted first overall in the 1993 NHL entry draft by the Ottawa Senators.
NY Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs
The 1994 Denver Broncos season was the team's 35th year in professional football and its 25th with the National Football League. The season would be the final year that Wade Phillips was head coach.
Kirby Puckett (March 14, 1960 – March 6, 2006) was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Minnesota Twins (1984–1995).
Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
Galileo was an American robotic space program that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies.
The 1999 NHL entry draft was the 37th NHL entry draft. It was held on June 26 at the FleetCenter in Boston.
Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), and then spent his entire nine-year National...
Derrick Martell Rose is an American former professional basketball player. He played one year of college basketball for the Memphis Tigers before being drafted first overall by his hometown Chicago...
20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand
Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
Joel Hans Embiid ( joh-EL em-BEED; born 16 March 1994) is a Cameroonian and American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
City of Falluja freed from Islamic State control after a month-long campaign by Iraqi forces
Hello Kitty bullet train unveiled by the West Japan Railway
Former Gambian beauty queen Fatou "Toufah" Jallow says she was raped by former President Yahya Jammeh as part of a Human Rights Watch and Trial International report
New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan
Matthew John David Hancock is a British former politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and...
Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL: Colorado Avalanche beats two-time defending champions Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1 for a 4-2 series win; Avs 3rd championship in franchise history
Earliest possible evidence of cannibalism found in 1.45-million-year-old fossilized hominin leg bone, with cut marks made by stone tools from the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi [1]
Attempted military coup in Bolivia as General Juan José Zúñiga leads soldiers to storm presidential palace in La Paz - general later claims President instigated it to boast his popularity [1]
William Thomson, British physicist, engineer and mathematician, known for british physicist, engineer and mathematician, was born on 1824-06-26.
Robert Borden is born
Salvador Allende is born
Chris O'Donnell, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1971-06-26. Christopher Eugene O'Donnell is an American actor.
Chris Isaak is born
Ariana Grande, American musician, known for american singer and actress, was born on 1994-06-26.
George Hainsworth is born
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete, known for american golfer and athlete (1911–1956, was born on 1911-06-26.
Greg LeMond is born
Derek Jeter, American athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1975-06-26.
Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by troops on the battlefield.
St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
Battle of Köse Dağ: Mongols under Baiju defeat Seljuk army of Sultan Kaykhusraw II during Mongol attacks in north east Turkey
According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away
Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V
Battle of Chausa: Afghan and northern Indian leader Sher Shah Suri defeats Mughal Emperor Humayun in Bihar in major battle involving 200,000 forces
Maurice, Prince of Orange conquers the Spanish-held Southern Dutch city of Geertruidenberg after a siege of two months, establishing his fame
French expedition led by Pierre Dugua de Monts lands at Île Sainte-Croix to found settlement of Acadia in New France - later moved to Port Royal [1]
Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
The Peace of Ryswick, or Rijswijk, were a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697.
Peter the Great's son, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia dies from the effects of torture after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him
Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (32) weds Swedish Sara Elisabeth Moræa (23), until his death in 1778
Battle of Fleurus: Major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) with the first use of a reconnaissance balloon
Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow, though farmers fear effects of iron on soil
Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
William Thomson, British physicist, engineer and mathematician, known for british physicist, engineer and mathematician, was born on 1824-06-26.
Hong Kong was under British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945.
1st pure food law enacted in US
Robert Borden is born
The first 62 recipients receive the Victoria Cross for valor in the Crimean War from Queen Victoria
The Battle of Gaines' Mill, also known as the Battle of Chickahominy River, took place on June 27, 1862, in Hanover County, Virginia, as the third of the Seven Days Battles which together decided the...
Richard Wagner's opera "Die Walküre" (The Valkyrie), the second in his Ring Cycle, premieres in Munich, featuring "Ride of the Valkyries"
1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
George Hainsworth is born
Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
Salvador Allende is born
Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete, known for american golfer and athlete (1911–1956, was born on 1911-06-26.
American future US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (24) weds Janet Pomeroy Avery (21) in Auburn, New York, until his death in 1959
American poet T. S. Eliot (26) weds British governess Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27) at Hampstead Register Office in London, England; formally separate in 1933
Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on jerseys in a game against Chicago WS; first time MLB players identified by numbers corresponding to those on scorecard
The Kingdom of Portugal had been allied with England since 1373, and thus the Republic of Portugal was an ally of the United Kingdom.
The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed
NY Daily News begins publishing
The emergency decrees under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution are invoked by the government to deal with deteriorating economic conditions
The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, arrived at a large island in the western Atlantic Ocean, later known as the...
Silent film "The Gold Rush," directed, starring, and written by Charlie Chaplin, is released and becomes the fifth highest-grossing silent film of all time
Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
The German–Polish declaration of non-aggression (German: Erklärung zwischen Deutschland und Polen über den Verzicht auf Gewaltanwendung, Polish: Deklaracja między Polską a Niemcami o niestosowaniu...
Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ
Test cricket debut of all-time great English batsman Len Hutton v New Zealand in 1st Tests at Lord's; scores 0 & 1
Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
German assault on British railroad terminal at Mersa Matruh, Egypt
2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
The Charter of the United Nations, also referred to as the UN Charter, is the foundational treaty of the United Nations.
England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs
Arnoldus Jozephus Meijer (5 May 1905 – 17 June 1965) was a Dutch fascist politician. Meijer was born in Haarlemmermeer.
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence
KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
Freedom Charter signed in South Africa
Chris Isaak is born
British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
Greg LeMond is born
Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north,...
Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
10-year-old English girl Mary Bell strangles four-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (later convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility)
Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. (May 18, 1937 – September 26, 2023) was an American baseball player who played his entire 23-year career in Major League Baseball as a third baseman for the Baltimore...
Alex Johnson (December 7, 1942 – February 28, 2015) was an American professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1964 to 1976, for the Philadelphia Phillies, St.
Chris O'Donnell, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1971-06-26. Christopher Eugene O'Donnell is an American actor.
NFL quarterback Johnny Unitas (39) divorces first wife Dorothy Hoelle after nearly 2 decades of marriage
Australian swing bowler Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut in 2nd Test vs England at Lord's
English-American actress Elizabeth Taylor's 5th divorce from Welsh actor Richard Burton, after just over 10 years of marriage
The Universal Product Code (UPC) is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American singer, songwriter, actor, and politician.
Derek Jeter, American athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1975-06-26.
CN Tower opens in Toronto - at 553 metres (1,815 feet), the tallest freestanding structure in the world (surpassed by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa 2009) [1]
42 die in a fire caused by an inmate at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee
Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine, killing two of the 107 passengers on board
Carlos Lopes runs European record 10km (27:34.39)
"Loving" premieres on TV
1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona. With over 1.6 million residents at the 2020 census, Phoenix is the fifth-most populous city in the United States and the...
Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
Alexandre Daigle is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A highly touted junior prospect, Daigle was drafted first overall in the 1993 NHL entry draft by the Ottawa Senators.
NY Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs
Roy Campanella, American baseball player, known for american baseball player, died on 1993-06-26.
The 1994 Denver Broncos season was the team's 35th year in professional football and its 25th with the National Football League. The season would be the final year that Wade Phillips was head coach.
Kirby Puckett (March 14, 1960 – March 6, 2006) was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Minnesota Twins (1984–1995).
Ariana Grande, American musician, known for american singer and actress, was born on 1994-06-26.
Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
Galileo was an American robotic space program that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies.
The 1999 NHL entry draft was the 37th NHL entry draft. It was held on June 26 at the FleetCenter in Boston.
Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), and then spent his entire nine-year National...
Strom Thurmond politician, known for american politician, died on 2003-06-26. James Strom Thurmond Sr.
Derrick Martell Rose is an American former professional basketball player. He played one year of college basketball for the Memphis Tigers before being drafted first overall by his hometown Chicago...
20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand
Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
Joel Hans Embiid ( joh-EL em-BEED; born 16 March 1994) is a Cameroonian and American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
City of Falluja freed from Islamic State control after a month-long campaign by Iraqi forces
America's Cup: Emirates Team New Zealand defeats Oracle Team USA 7-1 in Bermuda, making Peter Burling (26) the youngest helmsman to win the cup
Hello Kitty bullet train unveiled by the West Japan Railway
Former Gambian beauty queen Fatou "Toufah" Jallow says she was raped by former President Yahya Jammeh as part of a Human Rights Watch and Trial International report
New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan
Matthew John David Hancock is a British former politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2015 to 2016, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and...
Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL: Colorado Avalanche beats two-time defending champions Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1 for a 4-2 series win; Avs 3rd championship in franchise history
Earliest possible evidence of cannibalism found in 1.45-million-year-old fossilized hominin leg bone, with cut marks made by stone tools from the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi [1]
Attempted military coup in Bolivia as General Juan José Zúñiga leads soldiers to storm presidential palace in La Paz - general later claims President instigated it to boast his popularity [1]