| 72901 | June 26 | Event | 1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties. |
| 72902 | June 26 | Event | 1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. |
| 72903 | June 26 | Event | 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. |
| 72904 | June 26 | Event | 1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium. |
| 72905 | June 26 | Event | 1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland. |
| 72906 | June 26 | Event | 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France. |
| 72907 | June 26 | Event | 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. |
| 72908 | June 26 | Event | 1963 – Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister. |
| 72909 | June 26 | Event | 1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI. |
| 72910 | June 26 | Event | 1973 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people are killed in an explosion of a Kosmos-3M rocket. |
| 72911 | June 26 | Event | 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio |
| 72912 | June 26 | Event | 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. |
| 72913 | June 26 | Event | 1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute. |
| 72914 | June 26 | Event | 1977 – Elvis Presley performs the final concert of his life in Indianapolis. |
| 72915 | June 26 | Event | 1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish. |
| 72916 | June 26 | Event | 1991 – Ten-Day War: The Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. |
| 72917 | June 26 | Event | 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état. |
| 72918 | June 26 | Event | 1995 – Attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa. |
| 72919 | June 26 | Event | 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 72920 | June 26 | Event | 2000 – President Clinton announces the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. |
| 72921 | June 26 | Event | 2000 – Pope John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima. |
| 72922 | June 26 | Event | 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional. |
| 72923 | June 26 | Event | 2004 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is re-elected as President of Iceland. |
| 72924 | June 26 | Event | 2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest. |
| 72925 | June 26 | Event | 2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive 2/3 of the votes. |
| 72926 | June 26 | Event | 2008 – Karmah Bombing: A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people. |
| 72927 | June 26 | Event | 2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people. |
| 72928 | June 26 | Event | 2013 – Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injuring 21 others. |
| 72929 | June 26 | Event | 2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 72930 | June 26 | Event | 2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges declares that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |