On this day in History - Jun 26

• 0363 - Julian dies killed in battle. Roman Emperor.
• 0684 - Benedict II becomes Pope.
• 1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.
• 1291 - Eleanor of Provence dies. Queen of Henry III of England
• 1409 - Western Schism: The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
• 1483 - Richard III becomes king of England.
• 1541 - Francisco Pizarro dies murdered. Spanish conqueror of Peru.
• 1653 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury was born. Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV
• 1662 - Portugal - Golpe de Estado palaciano que põe termo à regência da rainha D. Luísa de Gusmão. O governo é entregue a D. Afonso VI, tendo D. Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 3.º conde de Castelo Melhor, como principal apoiante.
• 1681 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp was born (d. 1708). Swedish writer.
• 1688 - Ralph Cudworth dies (b. 1617). English philosopher.
• 1689 - Edward Holyoke was born (d. 1769). American academic.
• 1694 - Georg Brandt was born (d. 1768). Swedish chemist and minerologist.
• 1702 - Philip Doddridge was born (d. 1751). English religious leader.
• 1703 - Thomas Clap was born (d. 1767). American academic.
• 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.
• 1723 - After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons Baku surrendered to Russians.
• 1784 - Caesar Rodney dies (b. 1728). American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1793 - Gilbert White dies (b. 1720). English ornithologist.
• 1807 - Lightning hits a warehouse in Luxembourg, killing 230 people.
• 1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier dies (b. 1740). Inventor of the hot air balloon.
• 1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. of New York City.
• 1819 - Abner Doubleday was born (d. 1893). American Major General.
• 1821 - Bartolomé Mitre was born. President of Argentine
• 1824 - Lord Kelvin was born (d. 1907). Irish-born physicist.
• 1836 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle dies (b. 1760). French composer (La Marseillaise)
• 1838 - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was born (d. 1894). Bengali Novelist.
• 1854 - Robert Laird Borden was born. Eighth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1856 - Max Stirner dies. German philosopher.
• 1857 - The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
• 1865 - Bernard Berenson was born (d. 1959). American art historian.
• 1866 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon was born (d. 1923). English financier of Egyptian excavations.
• 1869 - Martin Andersen Nexø was born (d. 1954). Danish writer.
• 1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
• 1871 - As Conferências do Casino são suspensas pelo ministro do reino, marquês de Ávila e de Bolama.
• 1878 - Luís Edmundo de Melo Pereira da Costa was born in Ruio de Janeiro (d. 8 Dec 1961). Brazilian poet and journalist.
• 1878 - Mercedes of Orleans dies (b. 1860). Queen of Spain.
• 1889 - Tobias Barreto dies (b. 7 Jun 1839). Brazilian poet and philosopher.
• 1892 - Pearl S. Buck was born (d. 1973). American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature
• 1895 - George Hainsworth was born (d. 1950). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1898 - Willy Messerschmitt was born (d. 1978). German aircraft designer.
• 1899 - Maria Nikolaevna Romanova was born. Duchess of Russia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra of Hesse .
• 1904 - Peter Lorre was born (d. 1964). Hungarian-born actor.
• 1904 - Frank Scott Hogg was born (d. 1951). Canadian astronomer.
• 1906 - Viktor Schreckengost was born. American industrial designer
• 1906 - Alberto Rabagliati was born (d. 1974). Italian singer and actor.
• 1907 - Debs Garms was born (d. 1984). American baseball player.
• 1908 - Salvador Allende was born. President of Chile.
• 1909 - Colonel Tom Parker was born (d. 1997). Elvis Presley's manager.
• 1910 - António Teixeira de Sousa assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1911 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias was born (d. 1956). American athlete and golfer.
• 1912 - Jay Silverheels was born (d. 1980). Actor.
• 1914 - Laurie Lee was born (d. 1997). British writer.
• 1918 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Perhing & James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
• 1918 - Peter Rosegger dies (b. 1843). Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1919 - Richard Neustadt was born (d. 2003). American political historian.
• 1921 - Violette Szabo was born (d. 1945). French WWII secret agent.
• 1922 - Eleanor Parker was born. American actress.
• 1922 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco dies (b. 1848).
• 1923 - Barbara Graham was born (d. 1955). American murderer.
• 1924 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
• 1924 - Costas Axelos was born. Greek philosopher
• 1925 - Pavel Belyayev was born (d. 1970). Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1925 - Isabel da Nóbrega was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1928 - Jacob Druckman was born (d. 1996). American composer.
• 1933 - Gene Green was born (d. 1981). American baseball player.
• 1933 - Claudio Abbado was born. Italian conductor
• 1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• 1934 - Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• 1934 - Jeremy Wolfenden was born (d. 1965). British journalist.
• 1934 - Dave Grusin was born. American jazz pianist
• 1936 - Francisco Nicholson was born. Portuguese actor/ Nasce Francisco Nicholson. Actor, escritor e figura da televisão portuguesa (Tentação (1997) "Olhar da Serpente, O" (2002) TV Series Writer: "Vila Faia" (1982) TV Series (writer) ).
• 1936 - Robert Maclennan was born. British politician.
• 1936 - Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte was born. Archbishop of Montreal
• 1937 - Sombat Metanee was born. Thai film actor
• 1937 - Robert Coleman Richardson was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 - Maria Velho da Costa was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1939 - Ford Maddox Ford dies (b. 1873). English writer.
• 1940 - World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
• 1941 - Yves Beauchemin was born. Canadian novelist
• 1942 - Gilberto Gil was born. Brazilian singer, songwriter and First Minister of Culture of Brazil.
• 1943 - John Beasley was born. American actor
• 1943 - Georgie Fame was born. British singer
• 1943 - Karl Landsteiner dies (b. 1868). Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1945 - Dwight York was born. American musician, fashion consultant and cult leader
• 1945 - The United Nations Charter is signed / Surgimento da ONU : representantes de 50 países assinaram a Carta de São Francisco. Apoiada na tradição idealista norte-americana e com a tese de manter a segurança coletiva e a paz mundial, a Carta propunha a criação da Organização das Nações Unidas. Em 24 de outubro de 1945, a ONU passou a existir oficialmente.
• 1946 - Yosuke Matsuoka dies (b. 1880). Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
• 1946 - Max Kögel dies (b. 1895). SS officer.
• 1947 - Richard Bedford Bennett dies (b. 1870). Eleventh Prime Minister of Canada
• 1947 - Conferência em Paris entre a URSS, Grã-Bretanha e França sobre o Plano Marshall de ajuda norte-americana para a reconstrução da Europa.
• 1948 - The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
• 1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• 1948 - José Barata-Moura was born. Portuguese singer, writer and professor.
• 1949 - Ana Zanatti was born. Portuguese actress and writer./ Nasce em Lisboa Ana Zanatti. Actriz portuguesa ("Vila Faia" (1982) TV Series Lugar do Morto, O (1984) ..."Saber Amar" (2002) TV Series . Milagre segundo Salomé, O (2004) ...) . Apresentadora de televisão e recentemente escritora ( "Os Sinais do Medo", "Agradece o Beijo").
• 1951 - Gary Gilmour was born. Australian cricketer
• 1954 - Steve Barton was born. Actor, singer, dancer
• 1955 - Mick Jones was born. British musician, guitarist with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite
• 1956 - Fidel Castro é detido no México com outros 20 membros do Movimento 26 de Julho.
• 1956 - Chris Isaak was born. American singer.
• 1956 - Clifford Brown dues (b. 1930). American jazz trumpeter.
• 1957 - Patty Smyth was born. American singer (Scandal)
• 1957 - Philippe Couillard was born. Quebec neurosurgeon and politician
• 1957 - Alfred Döblin dies (b. 1878). German writer.
• 1958 - Andrija Štampar dies (b. 1888). Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat.
• 1958 - George Orton dies. Canadian athlete.
• 1959 - The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
• 1959 - Cuba rompe relações diplomáticas com a República Dominicana.
• 1959 - Mark McKinney was born. Canadian actor
• 1960 - Madagascar alcanza la independencia de Francia.
• 1960 - Former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence
• 1961 - Greg Lemond was born. American cyclist
• 1961 - Terri Nunn was born. American singer (Berlin)
• 1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner".
• 1963 - Harriet Wheeler was born. Singer.
• 1963 - Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky was born. Russian businessman, CEO of YUKOS Oil Company.
• 1963 - Richard Garfield was born. American game designer
• 1964 - The Beatles release the album A Hard Day's Night.
• 1964 - Gerrit Rietveld dies (b. 1888). Dutch architect.
• 1961 - Terri Nunn was born. American singer (Berlin)
• 1967 - Françoise Dorléac dies (b. 1942). French actress.
• 1968 - Paolo Maldini was born. Italian footballer
• 1968 - Shannon Sharpe was born. American football player
• 1968 - Tony Hancock dies. Comedian.
• 1968 - Rich Eisen was born. ESPN SportsCenter anchor
• 1969 - Colin Greenwood was born. British musician (Radiohead)
• 1969 - Mike Myers was born. American baseball player
• 1970 - Sean Hayes was born. American Actor
• 1970 - Irv Gotti was born. American record producer
• 1970 - Paul Thomas Anderson was born. American filmmaker
• 1970 - Nick Offerman was born. American actor
• 1970 - Chris O'Donnell was born in Winnetka, Illinois. American actor.
• 1972 - Garou was born. Canadian singer
• 1972 - Jai Taurima was born. Australian long jumper
• 1973 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
• 1973 - Gretchen Wilson was born. American singer
• 1973 - Paweł Małaszyński was born. Polish actor
• 1973 - Jussi Sydänmaa was born. Finnish musician (Lordi)
• 1974 - The first retail product (a pack of chewing gum) was sold using a barcode reader.
• 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
• 1974 - Derek Jeter was born. American baseball player
• 1974 - Matt Striker was born. American professional wrestler
• 1974 - Jeff Frankenstein was born. American musician (Newsboys)
• 1974 - Jason Kendall was born. American baseball player
• 1975 - Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India.
• 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.
• 1975 - Jonah Sorrentino was born. American hip hop artist
• 1975 - St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer dies. Spanish Roman Catholic priest. Opus Dei founder.
• 1976 - CN Tower (Toronto, Canada) opened on this day in 1976.
• 1976 - Ed Jovanovski was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 - Chad Pennington was born. American football player
• 1976 - Joe Landon was born. American pornographic actor
• 1977 - The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
• 1977 - Kubo Tite was born. Japanese cartoonist
• 1977 - Last concert of Elvis Presley.
• 1978 - Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers onboard died.
• 1979 - Muhammad Ali retires. Boxeur.
• 1979 - Kostas Katsouranis was born. Greek footballer (SL Benfica, Portugal)
• 1979 - Walter Herrmann was born. Argentinian basketball player
• 1980 - Jason Schwartzman was born. American actor
• 1980 - Chris Shelton was born. American baseball player
• 1980 - Jason Schwartzman was born. Actor
• 1980 - Michael Vick was born. American football player.
• 1982 - Alfredo Marceneiro dies. Portuguese fadist / Morte do cantor português Alfredo Marceneiro (n. 25 Fev 1891). Grande figura do fado.
• 1983 - Leela James was born. American singer
• 1984 - Elijah Dukes was born. American baseball player
• 1984 - Raymond Felton was born. American basketball player
• 1984 - Deron Williams was born. American basketball player
• 1984 - Michel Foucault dies (b. 1926). French literary theorist.
• 1985 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje was born. Tibetan spiritual leader.
• 1986 - Casey Desmond was born. American singer.
• 1987 - Carlos Iaconelli was born. Brazilian racing driver
• 1989 - Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time
• 1990 - Ryan Ward was born. American actor.
• 1992 - Herman Rohde dies (b. 1921). Professional wrestler.
• 1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
• 1993 - William H. Riker dies (b. 1920). American political scientist.
• 1993 - Roy Campanella dies (b. 1921). Major League baseball player
• 1994 - Jahanara Imam dies (b. 1929). Bangladeshi writer and political activist.
• 1994 - António Portugal dies. Portuguese musician.
• 1995 - Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
• 1996 - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin (b. 1958) is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
• 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment.
• 1997 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.), the first book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.
• 1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole dies (b. 1959). Hawaiian singer.
• 1999 - O líder da resistência do Timor Leste e Prêmio Nobel da Paz 1996, José Ramos Horta, regressa a Jacarta pela primeira vez desde que, em 1975, a Indonésia ocupou a ex-colônia portuguesa.
• 2000 - O Vaticano revela que o terceiro segredo de Fátima se referia ao atentado ao Papa, à luta do comunismo contra a Igreja e ao sofrimento dos cristãos no século XX.
• 2001 - Soccer (dog actor) dies (b. 1988)
• 2002 - Arnold Brown dies (b. 1913). 11th General of The Salvation Army
• 2002 - Jay Berwanger dies (b. 1914). American football player
• 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas
• 2003 - Sir Denis Thatcher Bt. dies (b. 1915). Husband of Margaret Thatcher
• 2003 - Strom Thurmond dies (b. 1902). U.S. Senator
• 2003 - Marc-Vivien Foé dies (b. 1975). Cameroon footballer
• 2004 - Yash Johar dies. Indian film producer
• 2005 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands was born.
• 2005 - Richard Whiteley dies (b. 1943). British television presenter.
• 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.
• International Day in Support of Torture Victims
• International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
• Lebanon: Prophet's Birthday (until 1999)
• Madagascar: Independence Day
• Romania: Flag Day
• Thailand: Sunthorn Phu Day
• Somaliland: Independence Day