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The following events took place on June 26. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 72 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1924

  American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
• 1927

  The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• 1934

  United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• 1936

  Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• 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.
• 1942

  The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• 1944

  World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
• 1945

  The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
• 1948

  The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
• 1948

  William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• 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 statewide labour parties.
• 1953

  Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
• 1955

  The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• 1959

  Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
• 1960

  The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
• 1960

  Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• 1963

  U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
• 1963

  Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister.
• 1967

  Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
• 1973

  At Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people are killed in an explosion of a Kosmos-3M 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.
• 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.
• 1977

  Elvis Presley performs the final concert of his life in Indianapolis.
• 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 d'état.
• 1995

  Attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa.

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