26 June 1992

Friday 26 June

1992-06-26

TV

 * BBC One
 * 7.00 pm European Football Championship Final Live coverage from the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg as the championship, second in importance only to the World Cup, reaches a climax.
 * In a surprise win, underdogs Denmark beat Germany 2-0, capturing their first-ever major championship at the expense of the current world champions.

Events

 * Glastonbury weekend begins. It was the first year that the donations from the profits of the Festival were made to Greenpeace and Oxfam. Organiser Michael Eavis felt that with the ending of the Cold War that people’s concerns had shifted away from the possibility of nuclear war to the concerns of the environment.