JUNE 26 1819 Abner Doubleday Born June 26,…

JUNE 26
1819 Abner Doubleday Born June 26, 1819 d. 1893 American Union soldier. He is credited with inventing baseball, although he never claimed so and modern research indicates similar games were played before he was born. He aimed the cannon that fired the first shot at the Confederacy after it fired on Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War. He also patented the cable car railway that runs in San Francisco.
1842 Loreta Janeta Velázquez Born June 26, 1842 d. circa 1897 Cuban-born woman. She fought as a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War disguised as a man using the name Harry T. Buford. She fought at Bull Run, Ball’s Bluff, and Fort Donelson. After being discovered, she was discharged, but reenlisted and fought at the Battle of Shiloh.
1898 Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) served as a United States Marine Corps officer. Beginning his career fighting guerillas in Haiti and Nicaragua as part of the Banana Wars, he later served with distinction in World War II and the Korean War as a senior officer. By the time of his retirement in 1955, he had reached the rank of lieutenant general.
1812 James Logan Jones Sr. (June 26, 1912 – March 30, 1986) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and is considered to be a “co-patron of amphibious reconnaissance” in the Fleet Marine Force. He pioneered the United States’ first ‘amphib recon’ units, the Observer Group and the FMF Amphib Recon companies during World War II.
1921 Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed.
1988 Dakota Louis Meyer (born June 26, 1988) is a United States Marine. A veteran of the War in Afghanistan, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Ganjgal on September 8, 2009, in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Meyer is the second-youngest living Medal of Honor recipient, the third living recipient for either the Iraq War or the War in Afghanistan, and the first living United States Marine in 38 years to be so honored.
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