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Day Of The Week: June 26
June 26, 2025 is the 177th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Cancer is your zodiac sign. Pearl is your modern birthstone. Moonstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: June 26
- 363 –Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
- 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.
- 1848 –End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1948 –William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1977 –The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
- 1991 –Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people’s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
Who were born on June 26?
- 1702 –Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (d. 1751)
- 1941 –Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
- 1951 –Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer
- 1960 –Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1969 –Colin Greenwood, British musician
- 1972 –Garou, Canadian singer
- 1975 –Chris Armstrong, Canadian hockey player
- 1976 –Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
- 1979 –Ryo Fukuda, Japanese racing driver
- 1984 –Gabrielle Walcott, Trinidad and Tobagoian beauty pageant contestant
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