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Old 06-26-2016, 02:24 PM   #145
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June 26

4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.

1483 – Richard III becomes King of England.

1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.

1740 – A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine (Florida) during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".

1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.

1906 – The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.

1917 – The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.

1918 – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.

1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.

1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.

1948 – The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.

1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.

1973 - Rolling Stone Keith Richards and his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg were arrested at their home in Chelsea, London on drugs and gun charges.

1974 – The Universal Product Code (UPC) is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.

Cher divorced Sonny Bono after 10 years of marriage.

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.

Elvis Presley performs what will be his final concert in Indianapolis. The last two songs he performed were ‘Hurt’ and ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water.’

1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

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.

2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Epic shitstorm ensues.

Births

1689 – Edward Holyoke; 1730 – Charles Messier; 1819 – Abner Doubleday; 1892 – Pearl S. Buck; 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, Chesty Puller (the most decorated Marine in American history); 1903 – Big Bill Broonzy; 1904 – Peter Lorre; 1908 – Salvador Allende; 1909 – Colonel Tom Parker; 1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias; 1915 – Paul Castellano; 1930 – Jackie Fargo; 1934 – Dave Grusin; 1938 – Billy Davis, Jr.; 1955 – Mick Jones; 1956 – Chris Isaak; 1961 – Greg LeMond; 1963 – Richard Garfield (created Magic: The Gathering); 1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson, Irv Gotti, Sean Hayes, Chris O'Donnell, Nick Offerman; 1971 – Max Biaggi; 1973 – Gretchen Wilson; 1974 – Derek Jeter; 1980 – Jason Schwartzman, Michael Vick; 1993 – Ariana Grande

Deaths

363 – Julian; 1541 – Francisco Pizarro; 1784 – Caesar Rodney; 1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (co-invented the hot air balloon); 1992 – Buddy Rogers; 1993 – Roy Campanella; 1996 – Veronica Guerin; 2003 – Strom Thurmond (And there was much rejoicing.); 2007 – Liz Claiborne; 2012 – Nora Ephron; 2013 – Byron Looper; 2014 – Howard Baker, Rollin King (co-founded Southwest Airlines)
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