July 26 Events |
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| July 26th, 2006 (July 26 2006) | Event | Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days. | |
| July 26th, 2005 (July 26 2005) | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-114 MissionLaunch of Discovery, NASA s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. | |
| July 26th, 1994 (July 26 1994) | Event | Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia. | Boris Yeltsin Quotes |
| July 26th, 1990 (July 26 1990) | Event | The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush. | George H. W. Bush Quotes |
| July 26th, 1989 (July 26 1989) | Event | A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. | |
| July 26th, 1977 (July 26 1977) | Event | The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government. | |
| July 26th, 1975 (July 26 1975) | Event | Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal. | |
| July 26th, 1974 (July 26 1974) | Event | Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis forms the country s first civil government after seven years of military rule. | |
| July 26th, 1971 (July 26 1971) | Event | Apollo Program: Apollo 15 MissionLaunch of Apollo 15. | |
| July 26th, 1968 (July 26 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war. | |
| July 26th, 1966 (July 26 1966) | Event | Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent. | |
| July 26th, 1965 (July 26 1965) | Event | Full independence was granted to the Maldives. | |
| July 26th, 1963 (July 26 1963) | Event | Syncom 2, the world s first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster. | |
| July 26th, 1963 (July 26 1963) | Event | Earthquake in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia)1100 dead | |
| July 26th, 1963 (July 26 1963) | Event | The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan. | |
| July 26th, 1958 (July 26 1958) | Event | Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. | |
| July 26th, 1957 (July 26 1957) | Event | Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated | |
| July 26th, 1956 (July 26 1956) | Event | Following the World Bank s decline to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation. | |
| July 26th, 1953 (July 26 1953) | Event | Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| July 26th, 1953 (July 26 1953) | Event | Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid. | |
| July 26th, 1952 (July 26 1952) | Event | King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad. | |
| July 26th, 1948 (July 26 1948) | Event | U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States. | Harry S. Truman Quotes |
| July 26th, 1947 (July 26 1947) | Event | Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council. | Harry S. Truman Quotes |
| July 26th, 1946 (July 26 1946) | Event | Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport | |
| July 26th, 1945 (July 26 1945) | Event | The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| July 26th, 1945 (July 26 1945) | Event | The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. | |
| July 26th, 1945 (July 26 1945) | Event | The US Navy cruiser Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. | |
| July 26th, 1944 (July 26 1944) | Event | World War II: Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation. | |
| July 26th, 1944 (July 26 1944) | Event | The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain. | |
| July 26th, 1941 (July 26 1941) | Event | World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. | |
| July 26th, 1937 (July 26 1937) | Event | End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War. | |
| July 26th, 1936 (July 26 1936) | Event | The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War. | |
| July 26th, 1934 (July 26 1934) | Event | Assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. | |
| July 26th, 1914 (July 26 1914) | Event | Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship. | |
| July 26th, 1908 (July 26 1908) | Event | United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation). | Chief Joseph Quotes |
| July 26th, 1891 (July 26 1891) | Event | France annexes Tahiti. | |
| July 26th, 1882 (July 26 1882) | Event | Premiere of Richard Wagner s Parsifal at Bayreuth. | Richard Wagner Quotes |
| July 26th, 1878 (July 26 1878) | Event | In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside. | Will Self Quotes |
| July 26th, 1863 (July 26 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Morgan s Raid endsAt Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces. | |
| July 26th, 1861 (July 26 1861) | Event | American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. | |
| July 26th, 1847 (July 26 1847) | Event | Liberia declares independence. | |
| July 26th, 1822 (July 26 1822) | Event | Jose de San Martin arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simon Bolivar. | Simon Bolivar Quotes |
| July 26th, 1803 (July 26 1803) | Event | The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world s first public railway, opens in south London. | |
| July 26th, 1788 (July 26 1788) | Event | New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States. | |
| July 26th, 1775 (July 26 1775) | Event | The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress. | |
| July 26th, 1581 (July 26 1581) | Event | Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II. | |
| July 26th, 1469 (July 26 1469) | Event | Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote MoorPitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV. | |
| July 26th, 1309 (July 26 1309) | Event | Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V. | |
| July 26th, 1139 (July 26 1139) | Event | Afonso, then a count, is proclaimed first king of Portugal and declares independence from Leon. | |
| July 26th, 0920 (July 26 0920) | Event | Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Leon against the Muslims at Pamplona. | |
| July 26th, 0811 (July 26 0811) | Event | Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded. | |
| July 26th, 0657 (July 26 0657) | Event | Battle of Siffin. | |
