26 June
Notable Births
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
b. 2005
Dutch princess (born 2005)
Mikey Williams (basketball, born 2004)
b. 2004
American basketball player (born 2004)
Chandler Smith
b. 2002
American racing driver (born 2002)
Ann Li (tennis)
b. 2000
American tennis player (born 2000)
Yerin Baek
b. 1997
South Korean singer-songwriter (born 1997)
Jacob Elordi
b. 1997
Australian actor (born 1997)
Hollie Arnold
b. 1994
British athlete (born 1994)
Leonard Carow
b. 1994
German actor
Ariana Grande
b. 1993
American singer and actress (born 1993)
Joel Campbell
b. 1992
Costa Rican footballer (born 1992)
Rudy Gobert
b. 1992
French basketball player (born 1992)
Jennette McCurdy
b. 1992
American writer and former actress (born 1992)
Diego Falcinelli
b. 1991
Italian footballer (born 1991)
Dustin Martin
b. 1991
Australian rules footballer (born 1991)
Belaynesh Oljira
b. 1990
Ethiopian long-distance runner
Iman Shumpert
b. 1990
American basketball player and actor (born 1990)
King Bach
b. 1988
Canadian-American internet personality and actor (born 1988)
Carlos Iaconelli
b. 1987
Brazilian racing driver (born 1987)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
b. 1963
Russian businessman (born 1963)
Don Valentine
b. 1932
American venture capitalist (1932–2019)
Notable Deaths
Carolyn McCarthy
d. 2025
American politician (1944–2025)
Bill Moyers
d. 2025
American journalist (1934–2025)
Lalo Schifrin
d. 2025
Argentine-American composer (1932–2025)
Takutai Tarsh Kemp
d. 2025
New Zealand politician (1975–2025)
Taiki Matsuno
d. 2024
Japanese actor and voice actor (1967–2024)
Margaret Keane
d. 2022
American artist (1927–2022)
Mike Gravel
d. 2021
American politician (1930–2021)
Milton Glaser
d. 2020
American graphic designer (1929–2020)
Beth Chapman
d. 2019
American reality television star (1967–2019)
Yevgeny Primakov
d. 2015
Russian politician and diplomat (1929–2015)
Howard Baker
d. 2014
American politician and diplomat (1925–2014)
Henrik Otto Donner
d. 2013
Musical artist
Edward Huggins Johnstone
d. 2013
American judge
Byron Looper
d. 2013
American convicted murderer and political assassin
Justin Miller (baseball, born 1977)
d. 2013
American baseball player (1977–2013)
Marc Rich
d. 2013
American commodities trader (1934–2013)
Sverker Åström
d. 2012
Swedish diplomat
Veronica Guerin
d. 1996
Irish crime reporter (1959–1996)
Alfred Döblin
d. 1957
German novelist, essayist, and doctor (1878–1957)
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
d. 1274
Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
On This Day in History
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2024
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the United States Department of Justice.
Julian Assange
2015
Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
26 June 2015 Islamist attacks
2015
The U.S. Supreme Court rules, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Supreme Court of the United States
2013
Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
June 2013 Shanshan riots
2013
The U.S. Supreme Court rules, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Supreme Court of the United States
2012
The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs, burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
Waldo Canyon Fire
2008
A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
2008 Karmah bombing
2007
Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
Pope Benedict XVI
2006
Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
Mari Alkatiri
2003
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that sex-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
Supreme Court of the United States
2000
The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
Human Genome Project
1997
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Supreme Court of the United States
1997
J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in United Kingdom.
J. K. Rowling
1995
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
1991
Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
Yugoslav Wars
1988
The first crash of an Airbus A320 occurs when Air France Flight 296Q crashes at Mulhouse–Habsheim Airfield in Habsheim, France, during an air show, killing three of the 136 people on board.
Airbus A320 family
1981
Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish.
Dan-Air Flight 240
1978
Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
Air Canada Flight 189
1977
Elvis Presley holds what will prove to be his final concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Elvis Presley
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.
Federal Bureau of Investigation