In 1996, the Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support. had launched missiles against Iraqi targets because of “compelling evidence” Iraq had plotted to assassinate former President George H.W. In 1993, President Bill Clinton announced the U.S.
Bush went back on his “no-new-taxes” campaign pledge, conceding that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators. Elvis Presley performed his last concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. In 1977, 42 people were killed when a fire sent toxic smoke pouring through the Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city's residents, declaring: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner). In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin. In 1925, Charles Chaplin's classic comedy “The Gold Rush” premiered at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. In 1917, the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force deployed to France during World War I landed in St. On June 26, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
Today is Sunday, June 26, the 177th day of 2022.