Associated Press

On June 26, 1925, Charles Chaplin’s classic comedy “The Gold Rush” premiered at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

In 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.

In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the western sector of Berlin.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city’s residents, declaring: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (“I am a Berliner”).

In 1977, Elvis Presley performed his last concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis.

In 1997, the first Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J. K. Rowling, was published in the United Kingdom.