On This Day:
Thursday June 26, 2014 This is the 177th day of the year, with 188 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: punctuation marks Punctuation is the use of spacing, signs, and typographical devices to aid the understanding and correct reading of texts. The word is derived from Latin punctus "point," and until the early 18th century the subject was known as pointing; the term punctuation, first recorded in the mid-16th century, was reserved for the insertion of vowel points - marks placed near consonants to indicate preceding or following vowels - in Hebrew texts. English punctuation is ultimately derived from that used in Greek and Latin during the classical period. In the oldest Greek literary texts, from about the 4th century BC, a horizontal underscore called the paragraphos marked the beginning of a line in which a new topic was introduced. We can consider that the first punctuation mark.
Holidays Feast day of Saints Salvius and Superius, Saints John and Paul, St. Anthelmus, bishop, St. Maxentius, and St. Vigilius of Trent.
Madagascar: Independence Day.
United Nations: Charter Day.
Events 1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. of New York City.
1870 - The first section of Atlantic City, New Jersey's Boardwalk opened to the public.
1900 - A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began to work to eradicate yellow fever.
1917 - The first troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during World War I.
1919 - The New York Daily News was first published.
1924 - U.S. troops pulled out of the Dominican Republic, after having occupied it since 1916.
1934 - The Federal Credit Union Act was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1945 - The charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries, in San Francisco.
1959 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1960 - Madagascar was proclaimed independent as the Malagasy Republic.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech at the Berlin Wall.
1971 - The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of releasing the Pentagon Papers.
1974 - The Universal Product Code (bar code) was introduced on a pack of Wrigley's gum.
1976 - The CN Tower opened in Toronto, Canada -- at 1,815 feet, 5 inches high it is the world's tallest freestanding building.
1997 - U.S. mathematician Andrew Wiles was awarded the Wolfskehl Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem, the most notorious problem in mathematics.
2000 - Rival scientific teams completed the first rough map of the human genetic code.
Births 1819 - Abner Doubleday, American Army general, once thought to be the inventor of baseball.
1892 - Pearl S. Buck, American Nobel Prize-winning author.
1904 - Peter Lorre, (born László Löwenstein), an Austrian stage and screen actor, who later became a naturalized US citizen.
1914 - Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias, Hall of Fame athlete in golf, track.
1942 - Gilberto Gil, Brazilian Minister of Culture.
1970 - Chris O'Donnell, American actor.
Deaths 1541 - Francisco Pizarro, governor of Peru and conqueror of the Inca civilization, assassinated by Spanish rivals.
1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer.
2003 - Strom Thurmond, American politician and the longest-serving senator in United States history (1954-2003).
2003 - Sir Denis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher.
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