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July 26 is the 207th day (208th in Leap Year s) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar , with 158 days remaining.
Events
- 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 - Battle Of Edgecote Moor
- 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 is admitted as 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.
- assumes command of the Army Of The Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle Of Bull Run .
- 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
- ese occupation of French Indo-China , US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States .
- 1945 - The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom General Election, removing Winston Churchill from power.
- 1945 - The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam , Germany .
- 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
- 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 .
- 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 .
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- 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 .
- 1991 - Paul Reubens , better known as Pee Wee Herman, is arrested for allegedly exposing himself at a Sarasota, Florida adult theatre.
- 1991 - '' Sonic The Hedgehog '' is released for the Sega Megadrive in Japan .
- 2005 - Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery , NASA 's first scheduled flight mission ( STS-114 ) after the ''Columbia'' Disaster in 2003.
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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, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1912 )
- 1855 - Ferdinand Tönnies , German sociologist (d. 1936 )
- 1856 - George Bernard Shaw , Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950 )
- 1865 - Philipp Scheidemann , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1939 )
- 1874 - Serge Koussevitsky , Russian conductor (d. 1951 )
- 1875 - Carl Jung , Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961 )
- 1875 - Antonio Machado , Spanish poet (d. 1939 )
- 1886 - Lars Hanson , Swedish actor (d. 1965 )
- 1892 - Sad Sam Jones , baseball player (d. 1966 )
- 1894 - Aldous Huxley , English-born author (d. 1963 )
- 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 )
- 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 - Francesco Cossiga , eighth President Of The Italian Republic
- 1928 - Stanley Kubrick , American film director (d. 1999 )
- 1939 - John Howard , twenty-fifth Prime Minister Of Australia
- 1939 - Bob Lilly , American football player
- 1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne , American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969 )
- 1942 - Vladimír Mečiar , Slovak president
- 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
- 1956 - Dorothy Hamill , American figure skater
- 1957 - Nana Visitor , American actress
- 1959 - Rick Bragg , American writer
- 1959 - Kevin Spacey , American actor
- 1961 - Keiko Matsui , Japanese musician and composer
- 1964 - Sandra Bullock , American actress
- 1965 - Jeremy Piven , American actor
- 1969 - Jonty Rhodes , South African cricketer
- 1973 - Kate Beckinsale , British actress
- 1973 - Lenka Šarounová , Czech astronomer
- 1977 - Martin Laursen , Danish footballer
- 1977 - Rebecca St. James , Australian-born musician
- 1980 - Dave Baksh , Canadian guitarist ( Sum41 )
- 1983 - Delonte West , American NBA player
- 1985 - Gael Clichy , French footballer
- 1993 - Taylor Momsen , American child actress
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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
Holidays and Observances
External links
July 25 - July 27 - June 26 - August 26 -- Listing Of All Days
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