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On the morning of June 26, 2015, outside the Supreme Court, the crowd celebrates the Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision. Credit: By Ted Eytan
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Friday, June 26, 2026

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June 19. Band performing in Texas for Emancipation Day, 1900 Credit: University of North Texas Libraries
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Law enforcement officials investigate the rear of Pulse Orlando after a shooting involving multiple fatalities at the nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. Credit: AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack
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This picture of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy talking to campaign workers in Los Angeles was made minutes before he was shot early today, June 5, 1968. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. After making a short speech, Kennedy left the platform and was shot in an adjacent room.  Credit: AP Photo/Dick Strobel
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May 29, 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary after successfully completing the first ascent of Mount Everest at 11.30am.
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May 8. Four MPs take a break along a German road to read in the "Stars and Stripes" newspaper about the Nazi surrender. Credit: U.S.Army
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May 1. In this May 3, 2011, file photo local people and media gather outside the perimeter wall and sealed gate of the compound and house, top left, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The hunt for Osama bin Laden took nearly a decade. Bin Laden, who was the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, and Pentagon in Arlington, Virgina, was killed by an elite team of Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011.  Credit: AP Photo/Anjum Naveed,
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April 24. The building to house the collections of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. under construction in 1893. Prior to the construction of the standalone library, the collection was housed in the Capital and suffered from limited space, understaffing, and a lack of annual appropriations. 
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