June 26^th is

Beautician’s Day

National Canoe Day

Chocolate Pudding Day

Same Sex Marriage Day *

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture *

International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking *
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Fiji – National Sports Day

Haiti – Father’s Day

Madagascar – Independence Day

Romania – Flag Day

Somalia – Independence of British Somaliland
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On This Day in HISTORY

4 AD – Tiberius is adopted by Augustus, founder of the Roman Principate, as his heir

699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished from the Imperial Court to Izu Ōshima, a volcanic island 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of Honshu. He had been accused of manipulating demonic spirits by sorcery, but his medicinal herbal knowledge was still highly valued

1284 – The Pied Piper lures 130 children away from Hamelin

1295 – The Duke of Poznań is crowned as Przemysł II, King of Poland, after a long period of Polish High Dukes; he is the first hereditary king since Boleslaw II in 1079. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms

1483 – Richard III takes the English throne

1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in a coup d’état by a group of 20 heavily armed men led by Diego de Almagro II, “El Mozo”

1699 – Madame Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin born, prominent Parisian salonnière, host to influential Philosophes and Encyclopédistes of the French Enlightenment

Madame Geoffrinn by Jean-Marc Nattier

1721 – Dr. Zabdiel Boyston gives first smallpox inoculations in America

1819 – W.K. Clarkson Jr. gets a patent for a velocipede, the first U.S. bicycle

1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect; Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British “in perpetuity”

1870 – Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States

1878 – Albert Siklos born, Hungarian cellist, composer and musicologist

1892 – Pearl S. Buck born, American author, 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature

1894 – The American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers

1896 – Vitascope Hall, the first U.S. movie theater, opens in New Orleans

1898 – Willy Messerschmitt born, German aircraft engineer and designer

1902 – Antonia Brico born, Dutch-American conductor, first woman to conduct Berlin Philharmonic (1930) and N.Y. Philharmonic (1938). Founder-conductor of the Women’s Symphony Orchestra (1934-39). When male musicians were admitted, it became the Brico Symphony Orchestra. Conductor of Boulder Philharmonic (1958-63)

1902 – William Lear born, American industrialist/electrical engineer; Lear Jet Corp.; granted over 100 patents for aircraft communications and navigation equipment

1911 – “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias born, multi-talented athlete, outstanding in basketball, track and field, swimming, golf, and billiards, winner of 10 major women’s golf championships

1917 – WWI: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France

1919 – The New York Daily News is first published

1922 – Carolyn Sherif born, social psychologist, pioneer researcher in group psychology, self-system, and gender identity

1925 – Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush premieres in Hollywood

1934 – U.S.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions

1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco

1948 – Shirley Jackson’s now-classic short story “The Lottery” is published in The New Yorker magazine causing cancelled subscriptions and prompting hate mail

1948 – The Berlin Airlift begins in earnest as the U.S., Britain and France begin dropping supplies to Berlin’s isolated western sector after the USSR cuts off land and water routes

1950 – President Truman authorizes U.S. Air Force and Navy entry in the Korean conflict

1955 – Mick Jones born, British singer-songwriter, lead guitar for The Clash (1974-1983); co-founder of The Justice Tonight Band in 2011

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

1964 – The Beatles album A Hard Day’s Night is released in the U.S.

1973 – John W. Dean testifies before the Senate Watergate Committee about the Nixon White House “enemies list”

1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time in the U.S. to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy OH

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

1988 – The first International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking * – designated by the UN General Assembly

1990 – George H.W. Bush, after campaigning for office on a pledge of “no new taxes,” concedes that tax increases will have to be included in any deficit-reduction package

1996 – U.S. Supreme Court orders the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state funding support

1997 – J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone published in U.K.

1998 – The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture * proclaimed by the UN General Assembly

2000 – The Human Genome Project announces completion of a “rough draft” sequence

2003 – U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, strikes down state bans on gay sex

2008 – U.S. Supreme Court overturns a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed 5-4 an individual right to gun ownership

2013 –  U.S Supreme Court rules that married same-sex couples are entitled to federal benefits and that same-sex marriages are valid in California, two major victories for the LGBTQ rights movement

2015 – In Obergefell et al v Hodges, Director, Ohio Department of Health, and other similar cases, U.S. Supreme Court makes 5-4 ruling that states cannot ban same-sex marriage – now celebrated as Same Sex Marriage Day *

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