June 26: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture; Independence Day in Madagascar (1960); Flag Day in Romania
Henri Moissan
- 1740 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries stormed Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.
- 1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan (pictured) reported he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- 1907 – Organised by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries in Tiflis, Georgia, robbed a bank stagecoach, getting away with 341,000 rubles.
- 1942 – The Grumman F6F Hellcat made its first flight, and went on to become the United States Navy's dominant fighter in the second part of World War II.
- 1996 – Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin was murdered while she was stopped at a traffic light, an event which helped establish Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau.
George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830) · Elvy Kalep (b. 1899) · Alfred Döblin (d. 1957)
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