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June 26

5 sourced moments from June 26 in history: The Pied Piper legend traces to a real lost-children event in Hamelin (1284); The United Nations Charter Was Signed (1945); The Berlin Airlift grew from 268 to 12,940 tons a day (1948), plus 2 more.

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5 things happened on June 26

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2000 Human Body & Mind · Genetics

The 2000 human genome draft was only 85% sequenced

The White House hailed the human genome in June 2000, but the draft was about 85% sequenced. The last gaps closed only in 2022.

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1974 Technology · Inventions

The barcode was first sketched as lines in Florida beach sand

Pulling Morse code out of his memory and his fingers through the sand, Joseph Woodland drew the future of shopping.

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1948 History · Modern

The Berlin Airlift grew from 268 to 12,940 tons a day

Launched on 26 June 1948, the airlift to blockaded West Berlin went from a few hundred tons a day to a plane landing every minute.

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1945 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

The United Nations Charter Was Signed

In a war-weary San Francisco theatre, fifty nations put pen to paper and built the modern world's most ambitious peace project.

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1284 Culture & Arts · Literature

The Pied Piper legend traces to a real lost-children event in Hamelin

Hamelin's oldest records insist that on one June day in 1284, 130 of its children walked out of town and never came back.

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