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What happened in history on this day: June 26?
On June 26 in ...
- 1862 - Battle of Beaver Dam Creek - USA repulse Confederacy in Virginia.
- 1862 - Day two of the Seven Days - Battle of Mechanicsville.
- 1870 - First section of Atlantic City (New Jersey) Boardwalk opens.
- 1878 - Land for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing facility is purchased for US$27,500.
- 1896 - First cinemaopens, the 400-seat Vitascope Hall in New Orleans, Louisiana. Admission is 10 cents. The cinema uses Thomas Edison's Vitascope projector.
- 1917 - First American Expeditionary Force arrives in France.
- 1919 - First issue of New York Daily News published.
- 1924 - After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Dominican Republic.
- 1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island, New York, USA.
- 1934 - President Franklin Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions.
- 1945 - United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, California, USA.
- 1948 - William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1948 - US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin.
- 1948 - U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to West Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade.
- 1958 - Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed).
- 1959 - Queen Elizabeth II and US President Dwight Eisenhower open the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
- 1963 - USA President John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) on a visit to West Berlin.
- 1968 - Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US.
- 1974 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a pack of chewing gum in Ohio.
- 1977 - 42 die in fire that inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee.
- 1982 - US vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Lebanon.
- 1985 - Walt Disney World Resort Monorail Gold catches fire on the EPCOT beam around 9:00pm due to friction from a flat tire.
- 1985 - In Hartford, Connecticut, USA a 1,500-pound slab of ice, six feet long and eight inches thick, falls from the sky flattening a picket fence, shaking the ground with the impact.
- 1989 - In Hawaii, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs. Two events about 5 seconds apart. Five people injured slightly, 5 homes destroyed and about 100 homes damaged.
- 1990 - U.S. President George H.W Bush breaks his 1988 'no new taxes' campaign pledge, accepting tax revenue increases as a necessity to reduce the budget deficit.
- 1994 - Philip N. Diehl begins term as US Mint Director.
- 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court declares sodomy laws unconstitutional.
- 2008 - The U.S. Senate approves US$161.8 billion in new funds to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the next year.
- 2008 - The US Supreme Court overturns District of Columbia's handgun ban, asserting that individuals have the right to own guns.
- 2008 - Shares of General Motors Corporation drop to their lowest level since 1955, after Goldman Sachs gives the stock a "sell" rating.
- 2009 - The US House of Representatives passes the American Clean Energy and Security Act climate change bill, including cap and trade plan.
Births on June 26
- 1893 - Birth of Big Bill Broonzy in Mississippi, USA; blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy).
- 1894 - Birth of Bill Wirges in Buffalo, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Growing Paynes).
- 1922 - Birth of Eleanor Parker in Ohio, USA; actress (Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker).
- 1922 - Birth of Frances Rafferty in Sioux City, Iowa, USA; actress (December Bride, Abbott and Costello in Hollywood).
- 1928 - Birth of Jacob Druckman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; composer (Animus I Auerole).
- 1940 - Birth of Billy Davis Junior in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; singer (Fifth Dimension - "One Less Bell").
- 1951 - Birth of Pamela Bellwood in New York City, USA; actress (Ellen - W.E.B., Claudia - Dynasty).
- 1979 - Birth of Ryan Tedder, American singer (OneRepublic).
Deaths on June 26
- 1983 - Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at age 82.
- 2003 - Death of Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (born 1902).
- 2007 - Death of Anne Elizabeth Jane "Liz" Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, at age 78 (born 1929).
- 2022 - Death of Mary Mara at age 61, drowned while swimming in the St. Lawrence River near Cape Vincent, New York; actor (ER TV show, Nash Bridges TV show).
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