UN Day
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (A/RES/52/149)

Events of the day
June 26
Army and Navy Day (Azerbaijan)
Flag Day (Romania)
Independence Day of Madagascar
Sunthorn Phu Day (Thailand)

1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
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
1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.

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