July
26
Independence
Day
Liberia : July 26 1847
Maldives : July 26 1965
Events
July
26
657 – First
Fitna: the Battle of Siffin see the troops led by Ali ibn Abi
Talib and those led by Muawiyah I clashing.
811 – Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus I is killed
and his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.
920 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and
Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement
V.
1469 – Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor pitting
the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against
those of Edward IV of England takes place.
1509 – The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya ascends to the throne, marking
the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1533 – Atahualpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies
by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro's Spanish
conquistadors. His death marks the end of 300 years of Inca
civilization.
1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern
Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king,
Philip II.
1745 – The first recorded women's cricket match takes place
near Guildford, England.
1758 – French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with
British forces defeating the French and taking control of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1775 – The office that would later become the United States
Post Office Department is 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.
1822 – First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between
the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the
Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
1847 – Liberia declares independence.
1861 – 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.
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.
1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
1882 – The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1887 – Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto
movement.
1890 – In Buenos Aires the Revolución del Parque takes place,
forcing President Juárez Celman's resignation.
1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
1897 – Anglo-Afghan wars: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads
an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British
garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province
of India.
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).
1914 – Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
1936 – The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil
War.
1936 – King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before
he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National
Vimy Memorial.
1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete 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.
1944 – World War II: the Soviet army enters Lviv, a major city
in western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews
survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
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.
1945 – The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian
with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International
Airport
1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National
Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central
Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United
States Air Force, 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.
1951 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland,
premieres in London, United Kingdom.
1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada
Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement
took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
1953 – 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.
1956 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the
Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel 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 – An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in the Republic
of Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
1963 – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
votes to admit Japan.
1965 – Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương
Đình Dzũ 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 on the first Apollo
"J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
1974 – Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the
country's first civil government after seven years of military
rule.
1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French
as the official language of the provincial government.
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 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed
into law by President George H. W. Bush.
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 (39.17 inches)
within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2007 – Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by
the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis
infection, causing widespread controversy.
2008 – 56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured
in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.
2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks
a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria
Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Anne (Western Christianity)
Bartolomea Capitanio
Blessed Andrew of Phu Yen
Joachim (Anglican Communion)
Paraskevi of Rome (Eastern Orthodox Church)
July 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Venera (Veneranda)
Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Liberia from
the United States in 1847.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Maldives from
the United Kingdom in 1965.
Kargil Victory Day or Kargil Vijay Diwas (India)
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