Today in History: Turkey Signed the United Nations Charter

June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

• 26 June 1937 Railway Battalion was transformed into a Railway Regiment, center Afyon.

Events

• 1530 – The first Protestant Assembly is established.
• 1541 - Spanish Francisco Pizarro, who conquered Inca lands in Peru, is killed in the city of Lima.
• 1807 – Lightning struck a warehouse in Luxembourg, killing 230 people.
• 1819 - The bicycle was patented.
• 1861 - Sultan Abdülmecit died; Abdulaziz became the Sultan instead.
• 1861 – Atıf Bey conducted a flight test in Bebek.
• 1867 - Governors of Egypt were given the title of "Khedive".
• 1870 - Christmas, a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, is declared to be a federal holiday in the United States.
• 1907 – 1907 Tbilisi bank robbery took place. The robbers fled, stealing 341.000 rubles from the State Bank of the Russian Empire. The robbery was organized by people including Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin.
• 1924 - Tuberculosis vaccine was discovered by two French researchers, Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin.
• 1928 – The Language Committee, which was established to prepare the new Turkish alphabet, held its first meeting in Ankara.
• 1936 – In Nazi Germany, the first flight of the "Focke-Wulf Fw 61", the first usable helicopter, took place successfully.
• 1939 – Ankara Gas Company was nationalized.
• 1942 – II. The Battle of Mersa Matruh took place in the North African Front of World War II.
• 1944 – The Law on Agricultural Equipment Institution was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 1945 – The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco, USA.
• 1945 – Turkey signed the United Nations Charter.
• 1951 – The funeral of Mithat Pasha, brought from Taif on the Aksu ferry on June 24, was buried on Hürriyet-i Ebediye Hill in Istanbul with a ceremony attended by President Celâl Bayar.
• 1960 - Madagascar gained its independence from France.
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy, during a visit to West Berlin, made the famous “I am a Berliner"(I'm a Berliner) used the expression.
• 1964 – The Beatles ensemble, A hard day's night released their album.
• 1970 – In Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek was expelled from the Communist Party.
• 1974 – At 08.01 in the morning, a pack of chewing gum processed in the checkout of Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, USA, became the first product to be sold with a barcode in the world.
• 1975 – Indira Gandhi established an authoritarian rule in India.
• 1977 - Elvis Presley gave his last concert.
• 1992 – Susa massacre: In Susa village of Silvan, a group of people praying in the mosque were taken out of the mosque and killed by PKK members. Ten people died in the incident.
• 1994 – Liberal Democrat Party was founded in Turkey.
• 2000 – Genetic map studies started in America.
• 2006 – Turkey's first judge-prosecutor association YARSAV was established.
• 2015 – Same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States by court order.
• The foundation of the Kanal Istanbul Sazlıdere Bridge was laid.

Births

• 1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
• 1760 – Johann I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1836)
• 1787 – Denise OuRall, French economist and mathematician
• 1824 – William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Irish physicist (d. 1907)
• 1841 – Paul Wallot, German architect (d. 1912)
• 1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American author (d. 1973)
• 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1964)
• 1908 – Salvador Allende, Chilean statesman (d. 1973)
• 1914 – Shapur Bahtiyar, Iranian politician and last Prime Minister of Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Idriz Ajeti, Kosovan historian (d. 2019)
• 1922 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Candan Tarhan, Turkish football player and manager (d. 1989)
• 1947 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan politician and Prime Minister of Afghanistan
• 1951 – Robert Davi, American actor
• 1954 – Luis Arconada, Spanish former national goalkeeper
• 1955 – Maxime Bossis, French football player
• 1955 – Tom Platz, American bodybuilder and trainer
• 1956 Chris Isaak, American musician
• 1956 – Kemal Ermetin, Turkish publisher and writer (d. 2012)
• 1964 – David Rolfe, Australian swimmer (d. 2015)
• 1966 – Angelo Di Livio, Italian football player
• 1968 – Paolo Maldini, Italian football player
• 1970 – Chris O'Donnell, American actor
• 1970 – Nick Offerman, American actor, writer, and carpenter
• 1971 – Sedat Peker, leader of Turkish organized crime organization
• 1974 – Ceylan, Turkish arabesque music artist
• 1976 – Makare Desilets, Fijian-American volleyball player
• 1977 – Tite Kubo, illustrator of Japanese mangaka and Bleach
• 1983 – Felipe Melo, Brazilian football player
• 1983 – Antonio Rosati, Italian football player
• 1984 – José Juan Barea, professional basketball player from Puerto Rico
• 1984 – Raymond Felton, American basketball player
• 1984 - Deron Williams, American basketball player
• 1985 – Katrin Heß, German actress
• 1985 – Gözde Sonsırma, Turkish volleyball player
• 1987 – Samir Nasri, Algerian-born French national football player
• 1992 – Joel Campbell, Costa Rican football player
• 1992 – Rudy Gobert, French professional basketball player
• 1992 – Jennette McCurdy, American film and television actress
• 1992 – Iman Asante Shumpert, American professional basketball player
• 1993 – Ariana Grande, American singer and actress

Deaths

• 363 – Julian, Roman Emperor (b. 331)
• 822 – Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Tendai sect of Buddhism (b. 767)
• 1452 – Plethon, Byzantine Neoplatonic philosopher (b. 1355)
• 1541 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador (conqueror of Peru) (b. 1475)
• 1810 – Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French aviator and inventor of the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
• 1811 – Juan Aldama, Mexican captain (b. 1774)
• 1811 – Ignacio Allende, soldier of the New Spanish army (b. 1769)
• 1830 – IV. George, king of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death (b. 1762)
• 1836 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French Revolutionary officer (b. 1760)
• 1856 – Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
• 1861 – Sultan Abdülmecit, 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1823)
• 1922 – Albert I, 29th prince of Monaco and duke of Valentinois (b. 1848)
• 1927 – Armand Guillaumin, French impressionist painter and lithographer (b. 1841)
• 1942 – Tsvyatko Radoynov, leader of the Bulgarian communist resistance movement (b. 1895)
• 1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-American immunologist and pathologist (b. 1868)
• 1947 – Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian politician who served as Canada's 1930th prime minister from 1935-11 (b. 1870)
• 1956 – Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
• 1957 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
• 1957 – Mexican Joe Rivers, American lightweight boxer (b. 1892)
• 1967 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (sister to Catherine Deneuve) (b. 1942)
• 1971 – Johannes Friessner, German Generaloberst (b. 1892)
• 1988 – Hans Urs van Balthasar, Catholic theologian (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Tugay Toksöz, Turkish film actor (b. 1937)
• 1996 – Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu, Turkish linguist and writer (b.1932)
• 1996 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
• 1996 – Zihni Küçümen, Turkish theater artist, translator and writer (b.1929)
• 1998 – Hacı Sabancı, Turkish businessman (b.1935)
• 2000 – Nermin Erdentuğ, Turkish anthropologist (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Turgut Özatay, Turkish film actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian national football player (b. 1975)
• 2003 – Denis Thatcher, British businessman and wife of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Ott Arder, Estonian poet (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Jupp Derwall, German football player and manager (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Algirdas Brazauskas, former president and prime minister of Lithuania (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Aldo Giuffrè, Italian actor (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Nora Ephron, American screenwriter and director (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Doris Singleton, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Bert Stern, American photographer (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Mary Rodgers, American composer and writer of children's stories (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and diplomat (b. 1929)
• 2016 – Kristiina Elstelä, Finnish actress (b. 1943)
• 2016 – Ryan Jimmo, Canadian martial arts master and kickboxer (b. 1981)
• 2016 – Kim Sung-min, South Korean actor (b. 1973)
• 2017 – Claude Fagedet, French photographer (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Desh Bandhu Gupta, Indian billionaire industrialist and businessman (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister, Swedish noblewoman (b. 1926)
• 2018 – Andrey Dementyev, Russian novelist and writer (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Henri Namphy, Haitian general and politician (b. 1932)
• 2018 – Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor (b. 1940)
• 2019 – Kemal Bayazıt, Turkish physician and heart surgeon (b. 1930)
• 2019 – Édith Scob, French theater, film and television actress (b. 1937)
• 2019 – Max Wright, American actor (b. 1943)
• 2020 – Abdoulatifou Aly, Madagascar-born French politician (b. 1960)
• 2020 – Kelly Asbury, American screenwriter, animator, voice actor (b. 1960)
• 2020 – Stuart Cornfeld, American producer, film director, and actor (b. 1952)
• 2020 – Madeleine Juneau, Canadian Sister, museologist and educator (b. 1945)
• 2020 – Félix de Almeida Mendonça, Brazilian politician and engineer (b. 1928)
• 2020 – Faqir Nabi, Afghan actor (b. 1953)
• 2020 – Taryn Power, American actress (b. 1953)
• 2020 – Ramon Revilla Sr., Filipino actor and politician (b. 1927)