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Events on June 26

• 1524 Martin Luther preaches for the first time in Magdeburg and thus paves the way for the Reformation in the city.
• 1870 The world premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera The Valkyrie takes place at the Royal Court and National Theatre in Munich under the direction of Franz Wüllner.
• 1925 Charlie Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush premieres in Hollywood.
• 1936 The world’s first helicopter, the FW 61, makes its first flight in Bremen.
• 1945 The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) is founded and publicly appeals to the population.
• 1948 The Berlin Airlift begins. The first aircraft take off with food and other needed goods to supply the city, which was cut off by Soviet troops on June 23.
• 1954 Austria defeats Switzerland 7:5 in the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup; the highest-scoring match in a World Cup finals goes down in history as the Battle of Lausanne.
• 1963 US President John F. Kennedy gives a speech in front of Schöneberg Town Hall in Berlin to 400,000 people, ending with the sentence “I am a Berliner”, spoken in German.
• 1974 The barcode system is used for the first time in a supermarket in Ohio (USA). A pack of Wrigleys chewing gum is scanned.
• 1984 German Federal Minister of Economics Otto Graf Lambsdorff resigns over the Flick donations scandal.
• 1997 The first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, is published in Great Britain with an initial print run of 500 copies.
• 2015 In the decision Obergefell v. Hodges by the Supreme Court of the United States, marriage between same-sex partners is legalized in all 50 US states.

Born on June 26

• 1892 Pearl S. Buck, American writer and Nobel laureate
• 1904 Peter Lorre, Hungarian-American film actor, screenwriter, and film director
• 1923 Hans-Joachim Preil, German theater playwright, director, and comedian
• 1951 Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician
• 1952 Hansi Kraus, German actor
• 1961 Greg LeMond, American racing cyclist
• 1970 Chris O’Donnell, American actor
• 1972 Alexander Marcus, German musician
• 1992 Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer
• 1993 Ariana Grande, American model, actress, and singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „26. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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