On This Day
26 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1539 Sher Shah Suri defeated Mughal emperor Humayun in the Battle of Chausa and assumed the royal title of Farid al-Din Sher Shah.
- 1838 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, novelist, poet, essayist and journalist, was born. He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is one of the landmarks of modern Bengali and Indian literature.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1843 Hong Kong was proclaimed a British crown colony.
- 1945 The United Nations Charter, the founding document of the United Nations, is signed in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization. 50 nations signed the Charter and it came into force on 24 October 1945.
- 1979 After almost 20 years of professional fights, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali announced his retirement from boxing.
- 1997 J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (also called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) was first published, in London. The book launched the hugely popular series about a boy wizard.
- 2000 The first map of the human genome, which required decoding more than 3 billion biochemical "letters" of human DNA, is completed.
- ⭐ Significance
- International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is a United Nations International Day against drug abuse and the illegal drug trade. It is observed annually on 26 June, since 1989.
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