What are the important events that happened on June 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 26: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 26 is the 178^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 13, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,656,000 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontaoctagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 217 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,205 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 26 Historical Events

• 1409 –
  Western Schism: the Roman 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.
• 1917 –
  The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
• 1942 –
  The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1978 –
  Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
• 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?

• 1839 –
  Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and author (d. 1901)
• 1907 –
  Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1931 –
  Colin Wilson, British writer
• 1938 –
  Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension)
• 1938 –
  Gerald North, American climatologist
• 1963 –
  Harriet Wheeler, British singer (The Sundays)
• 1968 –
  Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
• 1970 –
  Irv Gotti, American record producer
• 1970 –
  Sean Hayes, American actor
• 1991 –
  Diego Falcinelli, Italian footballer

Who died on June 26?

• 1922 –
  Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
• 1939 –
  Ford Madox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
• 1946 –
  Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1948 –
  Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)
• 1956 –
  Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
• 1958 –
  George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
• 2003 –
  Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (b. 1920)
• 2004 –
  Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
• 2006 –
  Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (b. 1953)
• 2010 –
  Sergio Vega, Mexican Banda singer (b.1969)