Portal:United States/On this day/June 26

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• 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
• 1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
• 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
• 1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean–going ships.
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.
• 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.
• 1975 – Two CIA agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in North Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
• 1993 – The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
• 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
• 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender–based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.

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