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 177th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 13, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,181,600 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 ‘hectaheptacontaheptagon’ day.
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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 236 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 4,570 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 26 Historical Events
- 363 –Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
- 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.
- 1541 –Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
- 1848 –End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 1857 –The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
- 1948 –Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
- 1952 –The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
- 1960 –The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
- 1995 –Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
- 2006 –Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
Who were born on June 26?
- 1921 –Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)
- 1924 –Kostas Axelos, Greek philosopher (d. 2010)
- 1968 –Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
- 1970 –Sean Hayes, American actor
- 1972 –Garou, Canadian singer
- 1973 –Rebecca Budig, American actress
- 1976 –Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
- 1984 –Deron Williams, American basketball player
- 1984 –Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
- 1987 –Samir Nasri, French footballer
Who died on June 26?
- 363 –Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (b. 331)
- 1878 –Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
- 1946 –Yōsuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
- 1947 –Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
- 1975 –Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)
- 1992 –Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
- 1994 –Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and activist (b. 1929)
- 2001 –Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)
- 2003 –Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
- 2010 –Sergio Vega, Mexican Banda singer (b.1969)
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