1721 | American physician Zabdiel Boylston began vaccinating Boston residents against smallpox after learning of the disease from Puritan minister Cotton Mather. On June 26, Boylston inoculated his son and two of his slaves for the first time. (Image: Wiki Commons)
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1904 | Peter Lorre, a Hungarian-born American actor famous for his role as the murderer of a psychotic child in the classic 1931 German film M, was born in Rozsahegy, Hungary. (Image: Wiki Commons)
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1906 | France staged the first-ever Grand Prix car race on a public road circuit outside of Le Mans. The race, organized by the Automobile Club de France in Sarthe, was open to international competitors. The term Grand Prix, which means “Grand Prix”, referred to the prize money of 45,000 francs awarded to the winner of the race. (Image: Wiki Commons)
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[1945|[1945| The Charter of the United Nations, which is the founding document of the intergovernmental organization, was signed in San Francisco after the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization. The Charter came into force on October 24, 1945. (Image: Wiki Commons)
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1963 | One of the most famous Cold War speeches, the Ich bin ein Berliner speech, was delivered by US President John F Kennedy in West Berlin on this day in 1963. (Image: Wiki Commons)
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1976 | The CN Tower in Toronto, built by the Canadian National Railway Company (CN), was opened to the public. The 1,815ft tower was the world’s tallest freestanding structure until the Burj Khalifa was built in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2007. (Image: Shutterstock)
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1977 | Elvis Presley, the “King of Rock and Roll”, gave his last concert in front of the public at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. (Image: Reuters)
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2003 | Strom Thurmond, American politician and prominent advocate for states’ rights and segregation, died on June 26, 2003, at the age of 100. Thurmond was one of the longest-serving senators in United States history who ran for president in 1948.
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2014 | FIFA banned Uruguayan Luis Suarez from the 2014 FIFA World Cup for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. (Image: Reuters)
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2015 | In a landmark decision for the gay rights movement, on June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees the right to same-sex marriage and that states must recognize their unions. ‘This freedom can no longer be denied,’ Judge Anthony M Kennedy said when reading the landmark decision (Image: Reuters)
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2019 | Malaysian authorities seized more than 5,000 smuggled baby turtles at Kuala Lumpur airport. The baby turtles were discovered in baskets inside the suitcases of two Indians. (Image: Shutterstock)
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