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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
- 1917 –The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
- 1940 –World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
- 1941 –World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- 1960 –The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
- 1973 –At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
- 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
- 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.
- 1991 –Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people’s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
- 1995 –Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
- 1997 –The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Who were born on June 26?
- 1901 –Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
- 1904 –Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
- 1914 –Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997)
- 1925 –Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)
- 1942 –Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture
- 1962 –Jerome Kersey, American basketball player
- 1967 –Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer
- 1970 –Chris O'Donnell, American actor
- 1970 –Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
- 1973 –Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
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