On This Day: June 26
10 verified moments happened on June 26. Here they are in the order they actually happened — the same kind of puzzle you solve in Whensly every day.
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- 1945🏛️ Delegates from fifty nations sign the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, founding the postwar peace body.
- 1948✈️ American and British pilots begin flying food and fuel into a blockaded West Berlin after the Soviet Union cuts off land access to the city.
- 1974📦 A pack of Wrigley's gum becomes the first retail item scanned by a UPC barcode, in Troy, Ohio.
- 1992Denmark beat Germany 2-0 to win the European Championship, having entered the tournament only as a late replacement
- 1992🇩🇰 Denmark, late call-ups to the tournament, stun Germany 2-0 in Gothenburg to win the European Championship.
- 1997⚡ Bloomsbury publishes J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel in a tiny initial print run.
- 2000🧬 Scientists announce at the White House the completed first draft of the entire human genome sequence.
- 2015💒 The Supreme Court rules that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry nationwide.
- 2016Tony Stewart wins at Sonoma for the forty-ninth and final Cup victory of his career, months after breaking his back
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