Notable Historical Events on July 26th
July 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
657 |
Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River |
811 |
Battle of Pliska: Bulgarians under Krum beat Byzantines |
920 |
Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona. |
1267 |
Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV |
1309 |
Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V. |
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. |
1497 |
"Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbeck's army lands in Cork |
1499 |
Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island |
1519 |
Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America |
1524 |
James V declared by Scottish Parliament fit to govern |
1529 |
Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru |
1576 |
Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst |
1579 |
Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean |
1588 |
John Hawkins knighted |
1656 |
Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent |
1663 |
France annexes Venaissin |
1678 |
England & Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France |
1757 |
Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats Duke of Cumberland |
1758 |
British battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg |
1759 |
French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY |
1760 |
Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie |
1775 |
United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin |
1788 |
NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution |
1790 |
US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts |
1803 |
The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London. |
1805 |
Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die |
1822 |
Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar & Jose de San Martin |
1826 |
Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews |
1832 |
HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo |
1835 |
1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii |
1847 |
Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride |
1847 |
The Liberian Declaration of Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the American Colonization Society |
1848 |
1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY) |
1858 |
Baron Lionel de Rothschild bcomes first Jewish person elected to British Parliament |
1863 |
Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender |
1864 |
-31] Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS—- |
1864 |
-31] Riot at Stoneman's to Macon GA, US1000 CS—- |
1864 |
Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie] |
1865 |
Patrick Francis Healy is 1st African American awarded PhD (from University of Leuven, Belgium) |
1865 |
The capital of New Zealand moves from Auckland to Wellington |
1866 |
Canoe Club opens in England |
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. |
1881 |
French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax |
1887 |
1st Esperanto book published |
1891 |
Henry James' "American" premieres in London |
1891 |
France annexes Tahiti. |
1897 |
37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record) |
1902 |
Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford |
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 |
First Lord of the Admiralty (British Minister of Navy) Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain |
1914 |
For the next two days, the foreign ministries and leaders of major states work feverishly to avert war |
1914 |
Irish Volunteers unload a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition arrived from Germany aboard Erskine Childers' yacht the Asgard; British troops fire on jeering crowd on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, killing three citizens |
1915 |
International School for Wijsbegeerte forms |
1916 |
The US Protests the 'Blacklist' issued by the British forbidding trade with some 30 US firms |
1917 |
J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice |
1918 |
Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed) |
1926 |
National Bar Association incorporates |
1926 |
Philippines government asks USA for a plebiscite on independence |
1928 |
Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1928 |
Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1 |
1931 |
26th Davis Cup: France beats Great Britain in Paris (3-2) |
1933 |
Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League |
1936 |
The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War. |
1937 |
End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War. |
1938 |
1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC |
1939 |
Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs |
1941 |
1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague |
1941 |
US embargo on oil-export to Japan |
1942 |
RAF bombs Hamburg |
1942 |
RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism |
1943 |
120°F (49°C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record) |
1943 |
Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome |
1944 |
Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam |
1944 |
Russian troops arrive in Weichsel |
1944 |
US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles |
1944 |
The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer"). |
1945 |
After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister |
1945 |
Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the Japanese surrender during WWII |
1945 |
Japanese government disregards US ultimatum |
1945 |
US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb |
1945 |
Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat |
1945 |
Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled |
1946 |
President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces |
1946 |
Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport |
1947 |
US Department of Defense forms |
1947 |
National Security Act establishes CIA |
1948 |
"Babe Ruth Story" premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance |
1948 |
1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show |
1948 |
Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a NY Giant |
1948 |
Pres Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in armed forces |
1949 |
WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game |
1950 |
KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites |
1951 |
Netherlands ends state of war with Germany |
1952 |
King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday] |
1952 |
Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer |
1953 |
Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba |
1953 |
Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime |
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. |
1954 |
WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit |
1955 |
Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester |
1955 |
Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers |
1956 |
Egypt seizes Suez Canal |
1957 |
Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200 |
1957 |
USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile |
1957 |
Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated |
1958 |
Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV |
1959 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
1960 |
Italian government of Fanfani forms |
1962 |
Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba |
1962 |
Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher |
1963 |
Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+ |
1963 |
US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched |
1963 |
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan. |
1964 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open |
1964 |
Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy |
1964 |
Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die |
1964 |
US union leader James Hoffa sentenced for fraud |
1965 |
Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Natl Day) |
1966 |
WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
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. |
1967 |
Twins beat Yanks 3-2 in 18 |
1969 |
Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific |
1970 |
Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton |
1971 |
Apollo 15 launched (Scott & Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon |
1973 |
Peter Shaffers "Equus" premieres in London |
1974 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1974 |
USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3 |
1975 |
Soyuz 18B returns to Earth |
1977 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1977 |
The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, South Africa |
1978 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1978 |
Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run |
1979 |
Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record) |
1981 |
2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela |
1981 |
36th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley |
1981 |
NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant |
1982 |
Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket |
1982 |
Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe |
1983 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8 |
1983 |
Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28) |
1983 |
Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io |
1983 |
US threatens action to preserve navigation in Persian Gulf |
1984 |
Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single |
1984 |
Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction |
1984 |
Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use |
1986 |
Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco |
1987 |
Catfish Hunter Billy Williams & Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame |
1987 |
Stephen Roche wins Tour de France |
1988 |
Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end that game at 2:13 AM |
1990 |
General Hospital records its 7,000th episode |
1990 |
President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act |
1990 |
US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games |
1991 |
CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders |
1991 |
Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th |
1991 |
Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater |
1992 |
"Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 108 perfs |
1992 |
47th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
1992 |
Britain honours her dead in the Falklands war |
1992 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons |
1993 |
Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed |
1993 |
Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km |
1994 |
Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13 |
1994 |
Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed |
1998 |
19th US Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, Calif |
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. |
2005 |
Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon. |
2012 |
At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria |
2012 |
Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq |
2012 |
North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless |
2013 |
57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan |
2014 |
Taghrooda wins the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes |
2016 |
Democratic National Committee apologizes to Sanders over emails |
2016 |
Michael Jordan speaks out on US race violence, pledging $2m |
2016 |
Japan Sagamihara knife attack: At least 19 dead, reports say |
2017 |
Survivors of Texas truck where 10 immigrants died seek to trade testimony for visas |
2017 |
CTE found in nearly 90 percent of brains donated by football players |
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