Jun'yō ("Peregrine Falcon") was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was laid down as the passenger liner Kashiwara Maru, but was purchased by the navy in 1941 while still under construction and converted into an aircraft carrier. Launched on 26 June 1941 and completed in May 1942, the ship participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign the following month and in several battles of the Guadalcanal Campaign later in the year. Her aircraft were used from land bases during battles in the New Guinea and Solomon Islands Campaigns. Jun'yō was torpedoed in November 1943 and spent three months under repair. She was damaged by several bombs during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944, but quickly returned to service. Lacking aircraft, she was used as a transport in late 1944 and was torpedoed again in December. Jun'yō was under repair until March 1945, when work was cancelled as uneconomical. She was then effectively hulked for the rest of the war. After the surrender of Japan in September, the Americans also decided that she was not worth the cost to make her serviceable for use as a repatriation ship, and she was broken up in 1946 and 1947. ( Full article...)

Mkrtich Khrimian

• ... that Mkrtich Khrimian (pictured), head of the Armenian Church, endorsed an armed struggle against the Ottoman Turks?
• ... that in Batman and Harley Quinn, Kevin Conroy reprises his role as Batman?
• ... that Typhoon Abby originated from the Western Pacific monsoon trough?
• ... that Mormon missionaries were temporarily banned from New Zealand for supposedly trying to convince Maoris to move to America?
• ... that Margit Neubauer appeared as Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, at the start of her 39-year career at the Frankfurt Opera?
• ... that the Gudjonsson suggestibility scale has been used in court cases to determine how suggestible a person will be during interrogation?
• ... that Indian legislator Ahmed bin Abdullah Balala urged the government to relax the helmet rules for motorcyclists due to the high temperatures of the summer months?
• ... that Warkworth's Chronicle, covering the years 1461 to 1474, reports on the double bleeding of Henry VI and a headless man who cries, "Bowes, bowes, bowes"?

Mohammad bin Salman

• An oil truck explosion in Ahmedpur East, Pakistan, kills at least 150 people and injures more than 100 others.
• The World Health Organization estimates that 200,000 people in Yemen have been infected with cholera.
• At least 10 people are killed and more than 90 others are missing following a landslide in Sichuan, China.
• The cricket teams of Ireland and Afghanistan are awarded Test status by the ICC.
• Mohammad bin Salman (pictured) is appointed Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, after King Salman deposes Muhammad bin Nayef.

June 26: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture; Independence Day in Madagascar ( 1960); Flag Day in Romania

Henri Moissan

• 1740 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries stormed Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.
• 1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan (pictured) reported he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 1907 – Organised by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries in Tiflis, Georgia, robbed a bank stagecoach, getting away with 341,000 rubles.
• 1942 – The Grumman F6F Hellcat made its first flight, and went on to become the United States Navy's dominant fighter in the second part of War II.
• 1996 – Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin was murdered while she was stopped at a traffic light, an event which helped establish Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau.

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Gustav Kirchhoff

The Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry". Named after Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a monetary gift, initially of £1000 (currently £2000). The medal was first awarded in 1877 to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (pictured) "for their researches & discoveries in spectrum analysis", and has since been awarded 140 times. The medal is awarded annually, and unlike other Royal Society medals, such as the Hughes Medal, it has been awarded annually without ever missing a year. The medal has been awarded to multiple individuals in the same year on seven occasions. The most recent year in which two individuals won the Davy Medal was 1968, when John Cornforth and George Joseph Popjak were honoured "in recognition of their distinguished joint work on the elucidation of the biosynthetic pathway to polyisoprenoids and steroids". ( Full list...)