On June 26, 2003, the U.

Strom Thurmond, who served in the United States Senate for a record 48 years, dies on June 26, 2003.

After 13 years together as a couple and six years of marriage—the last three for the cameras—pop singers and TV entertainers Sonny and Cher are legally divorced on June 26, 1975.

On the morning of June 26, 1974, at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum becomes the first grocery item scanned with a Universal Product Code, or UPC.

Former US President John F. Kennedy was renowned for his oratory – typified by his electrifying "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech delivered on this day.

President John F. Kennedy expresses solidarity with democratic German citizens in a speech on June 26, 1963.

In a ceremony presided over by U.

On June 26, 1956, the U.

In the Herbst Theater auditorium in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations sign the United Nations Charter, establishing the world body as a means of saving “succeeding generations from the scourge of war.

During World War I, the first 14,000 U.