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Friday, 26 June 2026
1984 "Miami Vice" premiers. 
1988 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series.
1989 Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher.
1990 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
1990 Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan wed.
1990 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush
1990 Pirate Radio New York International begins transmissions on WWCR
1990 Loretta Tupper, radio/TV entertainer, dies of cancer at 84
1991 US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins
1991 Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47.
1992 Duke Robbins, entertainer, dies of pneumonia at 71.
1993 Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 111
1994 Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78
1995 Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86
1996 Andrew MacElhone, bar owner, dies at 73
1997 Antony Kearey, television producer, dies at 77
2006 Five churches are attacked in Palestinian areas following the Pope's comments on Islam
2007 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 crashes in Phuket, Thailand , killing 89 of the passengers and crew
2012 8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan.
2013 21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico.
2017 New Zealand All Black ruby team scores record 57-0 against South African Springboks in Auckland.
2018 Typhoon Mangkhut makes landfall near Jiangmen City, China, winds 120 miles an hour cause tower blocks in nearby Hong Kong to sway
2018 In this year, "Green Book" claims People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival
2018 Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes sets an NFL record of 10 touchdowns in inaugural 2 weeks of a season, torching Pittsburgh’s secondary with 6 TD passes; leads Chiefs to 42-37 victory on the road
2018 In this year, Scott Dixon of New Zealand finishes second in the IndyCar Grand Prix of Sonoma to wrap up his 5th IndyCar Drivers' title for Chip Ganassi Racing; Honda claims Manufacturers' Cup; Canadian Robert Wickens is Rookie of the Year.
2018 Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and wife Lynne Benioff announce purchase of Time magazine for $190 million.
2018 inaugural ever performance of comedy "Love's Victory" by Lady Mary Wroth at Penshurst Place, England, 400 years after it was written.
2018 US Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accused of sexual assault in the 1980s in "The Washington Post".
2018 Cycling land speed record broken for men and women by Denise Mueller-Korenek riding 183.932 mph (296.010 km/h) Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
2019 50000 workers at General Motors go on strike in the US over pay and factory closings.
2019 A gas explosion in Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia sets off a fire in a bioweapons plant that houses viruses including smallpox, ebola and anthrax.
2020 Yoshihide Suga confirmed as Prime Minister by the Japanese government after Shinzo Abe stood down due to ill health
2020 A United Nations Human Rights Council fact-finding mission formally accuses the Venezuelan government of crimes against humanity, including cases of killings, torture, violence against political opposition and disappearances since 2014. President Nicolás Maduro and other senior Venezuelan officials are among those implicated in the charges
2020 Yoshihide Suga is recorded as becoming the new Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Shinzo Abe.
