Observance
June 26, 2025-June 26, 2025 -
Global, Global
• World Drug Day
• World Refrigeration Day
• International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
• 1906 – The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
• 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
• 1997 – J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in United Kingdom.
• 2000 – The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
• 2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
• 2024 – Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the United States Department of Justice
Birth Anniversary
• 1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
Birthday of actor Suresh Gopi (1958)
Death Anniversary
• 1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
Death Anniversary of Kavalam
Narayana Panicker (2016)
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26 Jun 25
00:00 - 23:59
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