
July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ==Events== *1139 - Afonso I of Portugal, then a count, is procclaimed first king of Portugal and declares independence from Castile *1469 - Battle of Edgecote Moor *1581 - Oath of Abjuration. The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spain king, Philip II of Spain. *1775 - The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress and Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first Postmaster General. *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 - Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín meet in Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1847 - Liberia gains independence. *1861 - American Civil War: George McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous United States defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. *1863 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends - At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate States of America cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by United States 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 Unua Libro. *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 Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. *1945 - General election results in the United Kingdom are announced; The Labour Party (UK) wins 48% of the vote and a Parliamentary majority of 146 seats (the largest in post-war British history). This is in spite of Conservative Party leader Winston Churchill's popularity. * 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, United States Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States 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. *1956 - Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation. *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 - 1800 dead *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 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. *1971 - Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15. *1989 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer 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 (Megadrive) is released for the Sega Megadrive in Japan ==Births== *1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079) *1782 - John Field (composer), Irish composer (d. 1837) *1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer (d. 1844) *1802 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855) *1856 - George Bernard Shaw, author, playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 (d. 1950) *1865 - Philipp Scheidemann, politician (d. 1939) *1874 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951) *1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961) *1875 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939) *1892 - Sad Sam Jones, Major League Baseball player (d. 1966) *1894 - Aldous Huxley, author (d. 1963) *1897 - Paul Gallico, author (d. 1976) *1902 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne (d. 1964) *1903 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963) *1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973) *1909 - Vivian Vance, actress (d. 1979) *1920 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983) *1921 - Jean Shepherd, writer (d. 1999) *1922 - Blake Edwards, film director * 1922 - Jason Robards, actor (d. 2000) *1923 - Hoyt Wilhelm, Major League Baseball player (d. 2002) *1928 - Stanley Kubrick, movie director (d. 1999) * 1928 - Francesco Cossiga, eighth President of Italy *1939 - John Howard, twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia * 1939 - Bob Lilly, American football player *1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne, aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969) *1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (Rolling Stones) *1944 - Micki King, diver *1945 - Helen Mirren, actress *1949 - Roger Meddows-Taylor, musician (Queen (band)) *1956 - Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater *1957 - Nana Visitor, actress *1959 - Kevin Spacey, Academy Award-winning actor *1964 - Sandra Bullock, actress *1965 - Jeremy Piven, actor *1969 - Jonty Rhodes, South Africa cricket *1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress *1976 - Chad Pennington, American football player *1993 - Taylor Momsen, actress ==Deaths== *456 - Offa, king of Mercia *811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine emperor (slain in battle) *1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders (b. 1322) *1680 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, writer (b. 1647) *1863 - Sam Houston, United Statesn politician, former President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793) *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 Duesenberg, automotive inventor *1935 - Winsor McCay, early cartoonist (b. 1871) *1952 - Eva Perón, former wife of President of Argentina (b. 1919) *1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883) *1969 - Frank Loesser, composer (b. 1910) *1971 - Diane Arbus , photographer (b. 1923) *1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906) *1986 - Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891) *1988 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919) *2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913) ==Holidays and Observances== *Algeria - Fanon Day *Cuba - Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks Attack Day (1953), Revolution Day *Liberia - Independence Day *Maldives - Independence Day *India - Vijay Divas (end of Kargil War) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/26 BBC: On This Day] ---- July 25 - July 27 - June 26 - August 26 -- historical anniversaries
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July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ==Events== *1139 - Afonso I of Portugal, then a count, is procclaimed first king of Portugal and declares independence from Castile *1469 - Battle of Edgecote Moor *1581 - Oath of Abjuration. The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spain king, Philip II of Spain. *1775 - The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress and Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first Postmaster General. *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 - Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín meet in Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1847 - Liberia gains independence. *1861 - American Civil War: George McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous United States defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. *1863 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends - At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate States of America cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by United States 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 Unua Libro. *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 Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. *1945 - General election results in the United Kingdom are announced; The Labour Party (UK) wins 48% of the vote and a Parliamentary majority of 146 seats (the largest in post-war British history). This is in spite of Conservative Party leader Winston Churchill's popularity. * 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, United States Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States 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. *1956 - Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation. *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 - 1800 dead *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 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. *1971 - Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15. *1989 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer 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 (Megadrive) is released for the Sega Megadrive in Japan ==Births== *1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079) *1782 - John Field (composer), Irish composer (d. 1837) *1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer (d. 1844) *1802 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855) *1856 - George Bernard Shaw, author, playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 (d. 1950) *1865 - Philipp Scheidemann, politician (d. 1939) *1874 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951) *1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961) *1875 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939) *1892 - Sad Sam Jones, Major League Baseball player (d. 1966) *1894 - Aldous Huxley, author (d. 1963) *1897 - Paul Gallico, author (d. 1976) *1902 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne (d. 1964) *1903 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963) *1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973) *1909 - Vivian Vance, actress (d. 1979) *1920 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983) *1921 - Jean Shepherd, writer (d. 1999) *1922 - Blake Edwards, film director * 1922 - Jason Robards, actor (d. 2000) *1923 - Hoyt Wilhelm, Major League Baseball player (d. 2002) *1928 - Stanley Kubrick, movie director (d. 1999) * 1928 - Francesco Cossiga, eighth President of Italy *1939 - John Howard, twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia * 1939 - Bob Lilly, American football player *1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne, aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969) *1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (Rolling Stones) *1944 - Micki King, diver *1945 - Helen Mirren, actress *1949 - Roger Meddows-Taylor, musician (Queen (band)) *1956 - Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater *1957 - Nana Visitor, actress *1959 - Kevin Spacey, Academy Award-winning actor *1964 - Sandra Bullock, actress *1965 - Jeremy Piven, actor *1969 - Jonty Rhodes, South Africa cricket *1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress *1976 - Chad Pennington, American football player *1993 - Taylor Momsen, actress ==Deaths== *456 - Offa, king of Mercia *811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine emperor (slain in battle) *1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan, second of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders (b. 1322) *1680 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, writer (b. 1647) *1863 - Sam Houston, United Statesn politician, former President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793) *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 Duesenberg, automotive inventor *1935 - Winsor McCay, early cartoonist (b. 1871) *1952 - Eva Perón, former wife of President of Argentina (b. 1919) *1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883) *1969 - Frank Loesser, composer (b. 1910) *1971 - Diane Arbus , photographer (b. 1923) *1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906) *1986 - Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891) *1988 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919) *2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913) ==Holidays and Observances== *Algeria - Fanon Day *Cuba - Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks Attack Day (1953), Revolution Day *Liberia - Independence Day *Maldives - Independence Day *India - Vijay Divas (end of Kargil War) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/26 BBC: On This Day] ---- July 25 - July 27 - June 26 - August 26 -- historical anniversaries
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