📜 This Day in History

June 26

• 1243Mongol conquest of Anatolia: Mongols achieved a decisive victory over the Seljuk Turks, leading to the decline and disintegration of the Seljuk state.
• 1848French authorities suppressed the June Days uprising, in which workers rioted in response to plans to close the National Workshops.
• 1906The 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing competition, began near Le Mans.
• 1945At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
• 2003The U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in the country in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas.
• 2015The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the right of same-sex couples to marry is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Born on this day

• 1824William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (died 1907)
• 1892Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
• 1908Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (died 1973)
• 1993Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress