Portal:United States/Anniversaries/June/June 26
- 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1892 – Pearl S. Buck (pictured), humanitarian and author whose bestselling Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize in Literature winning novel The Good Earth created popular American sympathy for China, is born.
- 1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
- 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
- 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
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Events
- 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
- 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
- 1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean–going ships.
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.
- 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
- 1975 – Two CIA agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in North Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
- 1993 – The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
- 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
- 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender–based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.