Out of the ordinary

June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.

26th June 1987 – I was born at 3.17am =)

Births:
Ryan Benjamin Tedder (1979 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) – American singer and Grammy nominated songwriter and record producer & the frontman for the band OneRepublic.

Christopher Eugene O'Donnell (1970) – Golden Globe-nominated American actor & perhaps best known for playing Robin in the Batman films.

Entertainment:
Release date for Kelly Clarkson’s My December – 2007
Release date for Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen – 2009

The Day in History:
26th June 1974 – 1st bar code reader read a UPC bar code symbol on the package and automatically rang up the purchase.

26th June 1979 – Muhammad Ali retires. He's one of the most famous fighters in history & have won the world heavyweight title three times over a 15 year.

26th June 1998 – Coyote Population Grows. The coyote (of dogs & wolves) has been in North America for 2 million years through the Ice Age, the Stone Age and now the human age and adapts well to the human world.

26th June 1998 – Windows 98 Released. One of its key new features is the plug in capability of video cameras, games machines and other plug and play peripherals.