On this day in history
June 26
Graeco-RomanIslamicEgyptianScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on June 26 this year.
- 363 CEGraeco-Roman · died
Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, died of a spear wound received during his campaign against the Sasanian Empire near Samarra.
- 1274 CEIslamic · died
The Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, astronomer and philosopher who founded the Maragha observatory, died in Baghdad.
- 1937 CEEgyptian · died
The German Egyptologist and lexicographer Adolf Erman, founder of the Berlin school of Egyptology and its dictionary project, died.
- 2000 CEScience
Leaders of the public Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics announced completion of a working draft of the human genome sequence at a White House ceremony.