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Thursday, 26 June 2025

2008

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in ''District of Columbia v. Heller'' that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right, and that the District of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional.

2003

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in ''Lawrence v. Texas'' that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

1997

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

1996

Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin

1995

Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.

1991

Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.

1978

Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.

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.

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.

Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India.

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