Historical Events for 26th June 2025

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1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1953 - KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
1976 - CN Tower opens in Toronto - at 553 metres (1,815 feet), the tallest freestanding structure in the world (surpassed by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa 2009)
2012 - Animated film "Ice Age: Continental Drift", directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Buenos Aires
2016 - Copa América Final, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ: Defending champions Chile defeat Argentina, 4-2 on penalty kicks; 0–0 after extra time
2016 - Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
2018 - Quriyat, Oman, registers highest "low" temperature for a day ever recorded of 42.5 degrees
2018 - Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease
2019 - More than 5,000 smuggled turtles discovered in luggage at Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaysia, bound for India
2020 - New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan

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