June 26th, 1848

Born on June 26th, 1848

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What happened on June 26th, 1848?

June 26th, 1848

End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Days_uprising

June 26th, 1848

French authorities suppressed the June Days uprising (pictured), in which workers rioted in response to plans to close the National Workshops.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Days_uprising

What else happened on June 26th?

June 26th, 2010

A G20 summit, the largest and most expensive security operation in Canadian history, began in downtown Toronto.

June 26th, 1950

A Douglas DC-4 Skymaster aircraft crashed after departing from Perth, becoming the worst peacetime aviation accident in Australia's history.

June 26th, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the right of same-sex couples to marry is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

June 26th, 2013

The U.S. Supreme Court granted federal recognition to same-sex marriage when it overturned the Defense of Marriage Act.

June 26th, 2003

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in the country in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas.

June 26th, 1997

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter fantasy novel series, was released.

June 26th, 1945

At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.

June 26th, 1918

World War I: The 26-day Battle of Belleau Wood near the Marne River in France ended with American forces finally clearing that forest of German troops.

June 26th, 1907

Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present-day Georgia.

June 26th, 1906

The 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing competition, began near Le Mans.

June 26th, 1889

Bangui, the capital and largest city of the present-day Central African Republic, was founded in French Congo.

June 26th, 1886

French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated elemental fluorine (pictured in liquid state), for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

June 26th, 1844

Julia Gardiner (pictured) married U.S. President John Tyler at the Church of the Ascension in New York, becoming the first lady.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 26th

Same year
Born in 1848

69

Octave Mirbeau

French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)

*February 16th, 1848, Trévières †February 16th, 1917, Paris

75

Raphael von Koeber

Russian-German philosopher

*January 15th, 1848, Nizhny Novgorod †June 14th, 1923, Yokohama

75

Vilfredo Pareto

Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)

*July 15th, 1848, Paris †August 19th, 1923, Céligny

59

Joris-Karl Huysmans

French novelist and art critic

*February 5th, 1848, Paris †May 12th, 1907, Paris

48

Édouard Joseph Dantan

French painter (1848–1897)

*August 26th, 1848, Paris †July 7th, 1897, Villerville

86

Benjamin Baillaud

French astronomer (1848-1934)

*February 14th, 1848, Chalon-sur-Saône †July 8th, 1934, Paris

76

Gottlob Frege

German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)

*November 8th, 1848, Wismar †July 26th, 1925, Bad Kleinen

65

Hubertine Auclert

French feminist and suffragist

*April 10th, 1848, Saint-Priest-en-Murat †April 8th, 1914, 11th arrondissement of Paris

87

Hugo de Vries

Dutch botanist (1848-1935)

*February 16th, 1848, Haarlem †May 21st, 1935, Ede

67

Władysław Marconi

Polish architect

*February 29th, 1848, Warsaw †June 4th, 1915, Warsaw

48

Otto Lilienthal

German aviation pioneer (1848-1896)

*May 23rd, 1848, Anklam †August 10th, 1896, Berlin

83

Pierre De Geyter

Belgian composer

*October 8th, 1848, Ghent †September 26th, 1932, Saint-Denis

70

Loránd Eötvös

Hungarian physicist (1848–1919)

*July 27th, 1848, Buda †April 8th, 1919, Budapest

86

Tōgō Heihachirō

Japanese admiral of the fleet (1848–1934)

*January 27th, 1848, Kajiya-chō †May 30th, 1934, Banchō

76

Johann Palisa

Austrian astronomist

*December 6th, 1848, Opava †May 2nd, 1925, Vienna

76

Eugène Simon

French naturalist and arachnologist

*April 30th, 1848, Paris †November 17th, 1924, Paris

80

Wyatt Earp

American gambler, miner, and frontier marshal (1848–1929)

*March 19th, 1848, Monmouth †January 13th, 1929, Los Angeles

82

Auguste Forel

Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (1848-1931)

*September 1st, 1848, Morges †July 27th, 1931, Yvorne

68

Otto, King of Bavaria

King of Bavaria (1848-1916)

*April 27th, 1848, Munich †October 11th, 1916, Fürstenried Palace

77

Dolores Jiménez y Muro

Mexican revolutionary (1848-1925)

*June 7th, 1848, Aguascalientes †October 15th, 1925, Mexico City

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Leap year

Yes: 1848 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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