Jump to content

Main menu Navigation ●Main page ●Contents ●Current events ●Random article ●About Wikipedia ●Contact us ●Donate Contribute ●Help ●Learn to edit ●Community portal ●Recent changes ●Upload file

●Create account ●Log in ●Create account ● Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more ●Contributions ●Talk

Portal:United States/Anniversaries/June/June 26

Add links ●Portal ●Talk ●Read ●Edit ●View history Tools Actions ●Read ●Edit ●View history General ●What links here ●Related changes ●Upload file ●Special pages ●Permanent link ●Page information ●Get shortened URL ●Download QR code Print/export ●Download as PDF ●Printable version Appearance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < Portal:United States‎ | Anniversaries‎ | June

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

1892 – Pearl S. Buck (pictured), humanitarian and author whose bestselling Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize in Literature winning novel The Good Earth created popular American sympathy for China, is born.

1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I.

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

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

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

edit

On this day for the United States

January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December

June 26:

**Time: 05:43 UTC Date: July 12**
<<	June					>>
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30

Events

1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean–going ships.
1963 – John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.
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 CIA agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian ReservationinNorth Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1993 – The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender–based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:United_States/Anniversaries/June/June_26&oldid=764912871" Category: ●United States portal ●This page was last edited on 11 February 2017, at 17:24 (UTC). ●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. ●Privacy policy ●About Wikipedia ●Disclaimers ●Contact Wikipedia ●Code of Conduct ●Developers ●Statistics ●Cookie statement ●Mobile view