Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 26

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 * 1243 – Mongol invasions of Anatolia: Mongols achieved a decisive victory over the Seljuq Turks, leading to the decline and disintegration of the Seljuk state.
 * 1740 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Spanish troops stormed the British-held strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.
 * 1848 – French authorities suppressed the June Days uprising, in which workers rioted in response to plans to close the National Workshops.
 * 1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated elemental fluorine (pictured in liquid state), for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 * 1906 – The 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing competition, began near Le Mans.
 * 1918 – World War I: The 26-day Battle of Belleau Wood near the Marne River in France ended with American forces finally clearing that forest of German troops.
 * 1945 – At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
 * 1997 – J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter fantasy novel series, is released.
 * 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in the country in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas.
 * 2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court granted federal recognition to same-sex marriage when it overturned the Defense of Marriage Act.
 * 2015 – The 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/died: | Robert the Lotharingian |d|1095| Henrietta of England |b|1644| Marie Thérèse Geoffrin|b|1699| Abner Doubleday |b|1819| George IV of the United Kingdom |d|1830| Ebenezer Pemberton |d|1835| Daoud Corm |b|1852| Mary van Kleeck|b|1883| Elizabeth Pierce Blegen|b|1888| Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia|b|1899| Elvy Kalep |b|1899| Violette Szabo |b|1921| Olive Morris |b|1952| Richie Powell |d|1956| Pommie Mbangwa|b|1976| Joel Campbell|b|1992| Mary Rodgers |d|2014| David Goldblatt |d|2018|

June 26


 * 1409 – The Council of Pisa elected Peter of Candia as Alexander V, becoming the third simultaneous claimant of the papacy during the Western Schism.
 * 1844 – Julia Gardiner (pictured) married U.S. President John Tyler at the Church of the Ascension in New York, becoming the first lady.
 * 1889 – Bangui, the capital and largest city of the present-day Central African Republic, was founded in French Congo.
 * 1907 – Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present-day Georgia.
 * 1997 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling, was published.