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| Science Boy
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|  On This Day (June 26)
- 1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.
- 1409 – In trying to end the Western Schism, where Gregory XII in Rome and Benedict XIII in Avignon simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, the Council of Pisa instead ended up electing a third one, Alexander V.
- 1541 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro was assassinated in Lima by supporters of his rival Diego de Almagro's son.
- 1898 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer born. (d. 1978) (Messerschmitt was a legendary German aircraft designer and manufacturer.)
- 1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
- 1936 – The first prototype of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, made its maiden flight.
Focke-Wulf Fw 61
- 1945 – At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
- 1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
- 1976 - The CN Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, was opened.
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