Navigation
Home
Recent
Most Active
Popular
Blog
Credits
RSS
Interaction
Register
Statistics
Help
Suggestions
Contact Us
How to Edit
Help
[Edit]
is the 207th day (208th in
leap year
s) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar
, with 158 days remaining.
July 26
Events
Births
Deaths
Holidays and Observances
Liturgical feasts
top
Events
657
-
Battle of Siffin
.
811
-
Battle of Pliska
;
Byzantine
emperor
Nicephorus I
is slain, his heir
Stauracius
is seriously wounded.
1139
-
Afonso
, then a count, is proclaimed first king of
Portugal
and declares independence from
Castile
.
1469
-
Wars of the Roses
:
Battle of Edgecote Moor
- Pitting the forces of
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
against those of
King Edward IV
.
1581
-
Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration)
. The
declaration of independence
of the northern
Low Countries
from the
Spanish
king,
Philip II
.
1775
- The birth of what would later become the
United States Post Office Department
was established by the
Second Continental Congress
.
1788
-
New York
ratifies the
United States Constitution
and becomes the 11th state of the
United States
.
1803
- The
Surrey Iron Railway
, arguably the world's first public
railway
, opens in south
London
.
1822
-
José de San Martín
arrives in
Guayaquil
,
Ecuador
, to
meet
with
Simón Bolívar
.
1847
-
Liberia
gains independence.
1861
-
American Civil War
:
George McClellan
assumes command of the
Army of the Potomac
following a disastrous
Union
defeat at the
First Battle of Bull Run
.
1863
-
American Civil War
:
Morgan's Raid
ends - At
Salineville, Ohio
,
Confederate
cavalry leader
John Hunt Morgan
and 360 of his volunteers are captured by
Union
forces.
1878
- 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.
1887
-
L. L. Zamenhof
publishes
"Dr. Esperanto's International Language"
.
1908
-
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
).
1936
- The
Axis Powers
decide to intervene in the
Spanish Civil War
.
1941
-
World War II
: In response to the
Japan
ese occupation of
French Indo-China
,
US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the
United States
.
1944
-
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.
1945
-
The Labour Party
wins the
United Kingdom general election of July 5
by a landslide, removing
Winston Churchill
from power.
1945 - The
Potsdam Declaration
is signed in
Potsdam
,
Germany
.
1947
-
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
.
1948
- U.S. President
Harry S. Truman
signs
Executive Order 9981
desegregating the
military of the United States
.
1948 -
André Marie
becomes Prime Minister of
France
1953
-
Fidel Castro
leads an unsuccessful attack on the
Moncada Barracks
, thus beginning the
Cuban Revolution
.
1953 -
Arizona
Governor
John Howard Pyle
orders a law enforcement crackdown on
Short Creek, Arizona
, home to a
polygamous
sect of the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
.
1956
- Following the
World Bank
's decline to fund building the
Aswan
High Dam
,
Egypt
ian leader
Gamal Nasser
nationalizes the
Suez Canal
sparking international condemnation.
1957
-
Carlos Castillo Armas
, dictator of
Guatemala
, is assassinated
1958
-
Explorer program
:
Explorer 4
is launched.
1963
-
Syncom 2
, the world's first
geosynchronous satellite
, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 -
Earthquake
in
Skopje
,
Yugoslavia
- 1100 dead
1963 - The
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
votes to admit
Japan
.
1966
- Lord Gardiner issues the
Practice Statement
in the
House of Lords
stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous
precedent
.
1968
-
Vietnam War
:
South Vietnam
ese 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
.
1971
-
Apollo Program
:
Apollo 15
Mission - Launch of Apollo 15.
1989
- 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
.
1990
- U.S. President
George H.W. Bush
signs the
Americans with Disabilities Act
, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
1991
-
Paul Reubens
, better known as Pee Wee Herman, is arrested for allegedly exposing himself at a
Sarasota, Florida
adult theatre.
2003
-
New York City
Mayor
Michael Bloomberg
declares it
Rock Steady Crew
Day.
2005
-
Space Shuttle program
:
STS-114
Mission - Launch of
''Discovery''
,
NASA
's first scheduled flight mission after the
''Columbia'' Disaster
in
2003
.
2005
-
Mumbai
,
India
receives 99.5cm of rain within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days. (See:
2005 Maharashtra floods
.)
top
Births
1030
-
Stanislaus of Szczepanów
, St. Stanislaw (d.
1079
)
1678
-
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
(d.
1711
)
1782
-
John Field
, Irish composer (d.
1837
)
1802
-
Mariano Arista
,
President of Mexico
(d.
1855
)
1829
-
Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert
, Belgian statesman,
Nobel Prize Laureate
(d.
1912
)
1855
-
Ferdinand Tönnies
, German sociologist (d.
1936
)
1856
-
George Bernard Shaw
, Irish writer,
Nobel Prize Laureate
(d.
1950
)
1865
-
Philipp Scheidemann
, 1st
Chancellors of the Weimar Republic
(d.
1939
)
1874
-
Serge Koussevitsky
, Russian conductor (d.
1951
)
1875
-
Carl Jung
, Swiss psychiatrist (d.
1961
)
1875 -
Antonio Machado
, Spanish poet (d.
1939
)
1880
-
Volodymyr Vynnychenko
, Ukrainian statesman (d.
1951
)
1886
-
Lars Hanson
, Swedish actor (d.
1965
)
1892
-
Sad Sam Jones
, baseball player (d.
1966
)
1894
-
Aldous Huxley
, English-born author (d.
1963
)
1895
-
Gracie Allen
, American actress and comedian (d.
1964
)
1897
-
Paul Gallico
, American author (d.
1976
)
1903
-
Estes Kefauver
,
U.S. Senator from Tennessee
(d.
1963
)
1908
-
Salvador Allende
,
President of Chile
(d.
1973
)
1909
-
Vivian Vance
, American actress (d.
1979
)
1914
-
Ellis Kinder
, baseball player (d.
1968
)
1920
-
Bob Waterfield
, American football player (d.
1983
)
1921
-
Jean Shepherd
, American writer (d.
1999
)
1922
-
Blake Edwards
, American film director
1922 -
Jason Robards
, American actor (d.
2000
)
1923
-
Hoyt Wilhelm
, baseball player (d.
2002
)
1926
-
James Best
, American actor
1928
-
Ibn-e-Safi
, Pakistani fiction writer and
Urdu
poet (d.
1980
)
1928
-
Francesco Cossiga
, 8th
President of the Italian Republic
1928 -
Stanley Kubrick
, American film director (d.
1999
)
1929
-
Alexis Weissenberg
, French pianist--born in Bulgaria
1931
-
Takashi Ono
, Japanese gymnast
1938
-
Bobby Hebb
, American musician
1939
-
John Howard
, 25th
Prime Minister of Australia
1939 -
Bob Lilly
, American football player
1940
-
Mary Jo Kopechne
, American aide to
Robert F. Kennedy
(d.
1969
)
1941
-
Brenton Wood
, American singer-songwriter
1942
-
Vladimír Mečiar
, Slovak prime minister
1943
-
Mick Jagger
, English musician (
The Rolling Stones
)
1945
-
Helen Mirren
, English actress
1949
-
Roger Taylor
, English musician (
Queen
)
1949 -
Thaksin Shinawatra
-Prime Minister of Thailand
1950
-
Nelinho
, Brazilian football player
1953
-
Robert Phillips
, Classical guitarist
1956
-
Dorothy Hamill
, American figure skater
1957
-
Nana Visitor
, American actress
1959
-
Rick Bragg
, American writer
1959 -
Kevin Spacey
, American actor
1959 -
Michael Ross
, American serial killer (d.
2005
)
1961
-
Gary Cherone
, American musician (
Extreme
)
1961 -
Keiko Matsui
, Japanese musician and composer
1964
-
Sandra Bullock
, American actress
1965
-
Jeremy Piven
, American actor
1969
-
Jonty Rhodes
,
South Africa
n cricketer
1973
-
Kate Beckinsale
, British actress
1973 -
Lenka Šarounová
, Czech
astronomer
1974
-
Daniel Negreanu
,
Canadian
poker
player
1977
-
Martin Laursen
, Danish footballer
1977 -
Rebecca St. James
, Australian-born singer
1980
-
Dave Baksh
, Canadian guitarist (
Sum41
)
1983
-
Delonte West
, American NBA player
1983 -
Roderick Strong
, Wrestler
1985
-
Gaël Clichy
, French footballer
1993
-
Taylor Momsen
, American actress
top
Deaths
796
-
Offa
, King of Mercia
811
-
Nicephorus I
,
Byzantine Emperor
(killed in battle)
1380
-
Emperor Komyo of Japan
(b.
1322
)
1471
-
Pope Paul II
(b.
1417
)
1592
-
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron
, French soldier (b.
1524
)
1611
-
Horio Yoshiharu
, Japanese warlord (b.
1542
)
1680
-
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
, English writer (b.
1647
)
1712
-
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
, English statesman (b.
1631
)
1723
-
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
, English statesman (b.
1660
)
1863
-
Sam Houston
, President of the Republic of Texas (b.
1793
)
1867
- King
Otto of Greece
(b.
1815
)
1919
- Sir
Edward Poynter
, British painter (b.
1836
)
1925
-
Gottlob Frege
, German mathematician and logician (b.
1848
)
1925 -
William Jennings Bryan
, American politician (b.
1860
)
1932
-
Frederick S. Duesenberg
automotive pioneer (b.
1876
)
1935
-
Winsor McCay
, American cartoonist (b.
1871
)
1941
-
Henri Lebesgue
, French mathematician (b.
1875
)
1942
-
Roberto Arlt
, Argentinian writer (b.
1900
)
1952
-
Eva Perón
, wife of Argentine President
Juan Perón
(b.
1919
)
1953
-
Nikolaos Plastiras
, Greek general and politician (b.
1883
)
1969
-
Frank Loesser
, American composer (b.
1910
)
1971
-
Diane Arbus
, American photographer (suicide) (b.
1923
)
1977
- Karac Plant,
Robert Plant
's son, stomach infection (b.
1972
)
1980
-
Ibn-e-Safi
, Pakistani fiction writer and
Urdu
poet (b.
1928
)
1984
-
Ed Gein
, American serial killer (b.
1906
)
1986
-
Averell Harriman
, American diplomat (b.
1891
)
1988
-
Fazlur Rahman
, Pakistani scholar (b.
1919
)
1992
-
Mary Wells
, American singer (b.
1943
)
2001
-
Peter von Zahn
, German journalist (b.
1913
)
2001
-
Rex Barber
, American WW II aviator (b.
1917
)
top
Holidays and Observances
Cuba
- Anniversary of the
Moncada Barracks
Attack (1953); Day of the National Rebellion
India
- Vijay Divas (end of
Kargil War
)
Liberia
- Independence Day
Maldives
- Independence Day
U.S.
- Aunt and Uncle's Day
top
Liturgical feasts
Roman Catholicism
Saint Beatus
, confessor (at Trier)
GTZ: Trier
Saint Eobanus
, (sometimes bishop), martyr
GTZ: Mainz
Saint Etherius
,
bishop of Auxerre
, confessor
Sens
Saint Exuperius
,
bishop of Bayeux
Bayeux only
Saint Germain
=Germanus, bishop of Auxerre
Saint Hycinthus
, martyr
Osnabrück, Utrecht; HCC
Saint Jodocus
, priest, confessor (Translation)
Amiens
Saint Lupus
,
bishop of Troyes
, confessor
Sens only
Saint Marcellus
,
bishop of Paris
, confessor (Translation)
Paris
Saint Pastor
, priest, confessor
Orden
Saint Rheticius
,
bishop of Autun
, confessor
Autun
Saint Symphronius
and companions, martyrs
Meaux, Senlis
Saint Anne
(mother of
St. Mary
)
common; MR, with Joachim
Search more:
Source
Privacy
License
Download
Contact Us
Atlas
Scientus.org
Dictionary
(
Yet Another Wiki
) RC
: 1.39
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License
[copyleft]
. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "July 26".
link