Daily Almanac: June 26, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 6:18 a.m.
SET: 9:22 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 82 °F
LOW: 67 °F

Today is…:
• Helen Keller Day
• National Bingo Day
• National PTSD Awareness Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1986 The 1980s U.S. intervention in Nicaragua is declared illegal. The International Court of Justice condemned the U.S. paramilitary campaign to overthrow the left-wing Nicaraguan government. The social democratic Sandinistas had begun to redistribute the country’s wealth and improve education.
• 1972 Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney found Atari, Inc. The pioneering video game and home computer company produced arcade classics like the two-dimensional tennis simulator Pong. Especially in the 1970s and 1980s, its products had a large impact on the electronic entertainment industry.
• 1954 The world’s first nuclear power plant is activated. The reactor at Obninsk in present-day Russia remained in operation for 48 years. Today, there are some 400 atomic power plants worldwide. The technology remains controversial, especially due to the unsolved long-term storage of the highly dangerous nuclear waste.

Births On This Day:

• 1869 Emma Goldman

Lithuanian/American activist, writer
• 1846 Charles Stewart Parnell

Irish politician, founder of the Irish Parliamentary Party

Deaths On This Day:

• 1839 Ranjit Singh

Indian founder of the Sikh Empire
• 2001 Jack Lemmon

American actor, singer, director