Important Events on June 26th In History:
1906: The first Grand Prix race is held at Le Mans.
1927: The Cyclone roller coaster opens at Coney Island.
1934: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, establishing credit unions.
1945: The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied countries in San Francisco, California.
1955: The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People.
1960: Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1977: Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1997: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
1997: J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in United Kingdom.
2003: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence vs. Texas that sex-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2012: The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing 2 people.
2013: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
2015: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that same sex couples have a constitutional right to get married under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.
2018: Twin girl and boy of Malia and Michael “MJ the Terrible” Johnson, Natalie Marie Johnson and Michael Christian Johnson were born.
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