June 26<\/p>\n
4\u00a0 \u2013 Emperor Augustus adopts his stepson, Tiberius.<\/p>\n
1830 \u2013 William IV, age 64,\u00a0 becomes king of Britain, Ireland and Hanover on the death of his elder brother, George IV of the United Kingdom, setting up his niece Victoria as the heir apparent.<\/p>\n
1870 \u2013 Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the U.S.<\/p>\n
1906 \u2013 The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans<\/p>\n
1917 \u2013 American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France during World War I.<\/p>\n
1918 \u2013 Allied forces under General John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.<\/p>\n
1934 \u2013 President Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, establishing credit unions.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 The United Nations Charter is signed<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 The first supply flights begin during the Berlin Blockade.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 Lavrentiy “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime<\/em>” Beria, head of the MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 U.S. President Kennedy states “Ich bin ein Berliner<\/em>” (‘I am a Berliner’ or ‘I am a Jelly Doughnut’, depending on the correctness of your German)\u00a0 in West Berlin after the East German puppet government erects the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 The Universal Product Code (the Bar Code) is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 2 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 and sentenced to 2 consecutive terms of life imprisonment.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Elvis Presley holds his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0Reno v. ALCU,<\/em> the Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act <\/em>is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 In the case of Lawrence v. Texas<\/em>, the Supreme Court rules that gender based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes, and killing 2 people.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 In the case of United States v. Windsor, <\/em>the Supreme Court rules that the Defense of Marriage Act<\/em> is unconstitutional<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0Obergefell v. Hodges, <\/em>the Supreme Court rules\u00a0that under the 14th amendment, the states must recognize same sex marriages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 26 4\u00a0 \u2013 Emperor Augustus adopts his stepson, Tiberius. 1830 \u2013 William IV, age 64,\u00a0 becomes king of Britain, Ireland and Hanover on the death of his elder brother, George IV of the United Kingdom, setting up his niece Victoria as the heir apparent. 1870 \u2013 Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56368"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93917,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56368\/revisions\/93917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}