WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013

Today is Wednesday, June 26, the 177th day of 2013. There are 188 days left in the year.

1797 ― Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow; he can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!

1940 ― End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27

1945 ― U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.

1960 ― British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain

1963 ― Kennedy visits West Berlin and says, “Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)”

1964 ― Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night” album

1968 ― Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by U.S.

1974 ― Liz Taylor's fifth divorce (Richard Burton)

1982 ― U.S. vetoes U.N. Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces

1990 ― 122 degrees in Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Ariz.