This week in history
June 26th.
Nothing landed on June 26 exactly, but 50 stories fall within the surrounding week and month.
The surrounding week
23 stories within seven days of 26 June
1 July 1997Wikipedia · "Handover of Hong Kong"Hong Kong HandoverChina
1 July 1968Wikipedia · "Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons"Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty OpensUnited Nations
1 July 1944Wikipedia · "Bretton Woods Conference"Bretton Woods ConferenceUnited States
1 July 1916Wikipedia · "Battle of the Somme"Battle of the Somme BeginsFrance- 1 July 1890Helgoland-Zanzibar TreatyGermany
1 July 1863Wikipedia · "Battle of Gettysburg"Battle of GettysburgUnited States
2 July 1997Wikipedia · "1997 Asian financial crisis"Asian Financial Crisis Begins
3 July 1866Alexander Ritter von Bensa (1820-1902). · via WikipediaBattle of KöniggrätzAustria-Hungary
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19 June 1999Hmickey · via Wikipedia1999 FIFA Women's World CupUnited States
19 June 1938Wikipedia · "1938 FIFA World Cup final"1938 FIFA World Cup FinalFrance
20 June 1897Wikipedia · "Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria"Queen Victoria's Diamond JubileeUnited Kingdom
20 June 451Wikipedia · "Battle of the Catalaunian Plains"Battle of Catalaunian PlainsFrance- 22 June 1941Operation BarbarossaSoviet Union
22 June 1911Wikipedia · "Coronation of George V and Mary"Coronation of King George VUnited Kingdom
23 June 2016Tumisu via Wikimedia Commons - Union Jack and EU flag, 2016. CC0.The Brexit ReferendumWestminster, London
23 June 1314Wikipedia · "Battle of Bannockburn"Battle of BannockburnScotland
28 June 1922Wikipedia · "Irish Civil War"Irish Civil War ArmisticeIreland
28 June 1919Wikipedia · "Treaty of Versailles"Treaty of VersaillesFrance
29 June 1956Wikipedia · "Interstate Highway System"Interstate Highway System AuthorizedUnited States
29 June 1913Wikipedia · "Second Balkan War"Second Balkan War
30 June 2002Wikipedia · "2002 FIFA World Cup final"2002 FIFA World Cup FinalSouth Korea / Japan
30 June 1960Wikipedia · "Congolese Independence Speech"Congolese Independence & Lumumba's RiseDemocratic Republic of Congo
30 June 1908Wikipedia · "Tunguska event"Tunguska Impact Event: Siberian ExplosionRussia
Elsewhere in June
18 stories
1 June 1969Wikipedia · "1969 French presidential election"French Presidential ElectionFrance
2 June 1953Wikipedia · "Coronation of Elizabeth II"Coronation of Elizabeth IIUnited Kingdom
3 June 1885"Allington Castle Maidstone" by JOHN K THORNE is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.Northwest RebellionCanada
4 June 1940Wikipedia · "Dunkirk evacuation"Dunkirk EvacuationFrance
4 June 1920Wikipedia · "Treaty of Trianon"Treaty of Trianon SignedHungary
4 June 1917Wikipedia · "Pulitzer Prize"Pulitzer Prize First AwardedUnited States
6 June 1958Wikipedia · "1958 FIFA World Cup"1958 FIFA World CupSweden
7 June 1494Wikipedia · "Treaty of Tordesillas"Treaty of Tordesillas
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7 June 1099Wikipedia · "Siege of Jerusalem (1099)"Siege of JerusalemIsrael/Palestine
9 June 2006Wikipedia · "2006 FIFA World Cup"2006 FIFA World Cup GermanyGermany
10 June 2008Wikipedia · "Sudan Airways Flight 109"Sudan Airways Flight 109
10 June 1998Wikipedia · "1998 FIFA World Cup"1998 FIFA World Cup FranceFrance
11 June 2010Wikipedia · "2010 FIFA World Cup"2010 FIFA World Cup South AfricaSouth Africa
14 June 2017"Upper Grenfell Tower" by ChiralJon is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.Grenfell Tower Fire in LondonUnited Kingdom
14 June 1830jorono on PixabayFrench Invasion of AlgeriaFrance
17 June 1925Wikipedia · "Geneva Protocol"Geneva Protocol on Chemical WeaponsSwitzerland
18 June 2023Wikipedia · "Titan submersible implosion"Titan Submersible Implosion in North AtlanticNorth Atlantic, off Newfoundland
18 June 1757Wikipedia · "Battle of Kolín"Battle of KolinCzech Republic
Also in June
3 stories we can place in June, but not on a day
