TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 26
363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by troops on the battlefield.
1096 Peter the Hermit’s crusaders force their way across Sava, Hungary.
1483 Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.
1541 Former followers murder Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of Peru.
1794 Battle of Fleurus: major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow.
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1819 The bicycle was patented by W. K. Clarkson.
1863 Jubal Early and his Confederate forces move into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1900 The United States announces it will send troops to fight against the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1906 The first Grand Prix motor race was held in Le Mans, France.
1917 General Pershing arrives in France with the American Expeditionary Force.
1924 After eight years of occupation, American troops leave the Dominican Republic.
1926 A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France is unveiled at St. Nazaire.
1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy holds his iconic “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1971 The U.S. Justice Department issues a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
1974 In Troy, Ohio, a Marsh supermarket installed the first bar code scanning equipment, made by IBM, and a product with a bar code was scanned for the first time. The product was Juicy Fruit gum.
1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is convicted of election fraud.
1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1985 Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing “Three Blind Mice” during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by umpire Keith O’Connor.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that made it illegal to distribute indecent material on the Internet.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor’s sexual misconduct toward an employee.
2000 The first map of the human genome, which required decoding more than 3 billion biochemical “letters” of human DNA, is completed.
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
