Daily Calendar - June 26

The 167th day of the year, 198 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

His Holiness Anthimos of Iberia, Metropolitan of Ungrovlakheti (1716); Virgin Martyr Aquilinas (293); Bishop Tryphile of Cyprus (c. 370); Virgin Martyr Antoninas (284-303); Bishop Ant Ypatros of Bostr; Venerable Annas (826) and her son John (IX).

The Holy Martyr Aquilina was a resident of the Phoenician city of Byblos. During the persecution of Christians declared under Emperor Diocletian, the saint was captured and tortured. The Christians reverently buried the body of the saint. Later, her relics were transferred to Constantinople and placed in the church named after her.

The venerable mother Anna and her son Saint John lived in Byzantium. Saint Anna was the daughter of a deacon of the Church of the Wallachia in Constantinople. After the death of her husband, Anna, dressed in men's clothing, settled with her son, Saint John, in one of the monasteries of Bethany near Mount Olympus and led a monastic life. Saint Anna died in Constantinople in 826.

Born:

1892 _ Pearl Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate. Died in 1973.

1898 _ Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer. Died in 1978.

1928 _ Tengiz Oniani, neurophysiologist, professor.

Died:

1836 _ Claude Joseph Rouget de Lille, French military engineer, composer, author of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise".

1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian immunologist, discovered human blood groups, and in 1940 Rhesus factor. Nobel Prize laureate.

Events:

1945 _ Representatives of 50 states signed the UN Charter in San Francisco, which came into force on October 24 of the same year. The UN was created.

1976 _ The tallest building in the world, the National Tower, was opened in Toronto, with a height of 553.34 meters.

1988 _ From this year, the UN has been celebrating the International Day against Drug Abuse.

1988 The American Larry Tudor set a hang gliding altitude record 4343.4 meters.

Memorable days:

International Day Against Drug Abuse.

South Africa's Freedom Day.

Madagascar _ Independence Day.