Anything noteworthy today in history 26th of July?

Answer 1

Some notable things that happened on July 26th were:

• 657 - First Fitna: in the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
• 811 - Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I I is killed and his heir Staurakios 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.
• 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 Saint 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, United Kingdom.
• 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 its 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, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ã�ngel Juárez Celman's resignation.
• 1891 - France annexes Tahiti.
• 1897 - Anglo-Afghan War: 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 thrоne, 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 Indochina, 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, capturing 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 the United Kingdom.
• 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 - HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War
• 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, England, 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 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 Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
• 1963 - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
• 1965 - Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
• 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 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
• 1971 - Nicolette Milnes-Walker completes sailing non-stop single-handedly across the Atlantic, becoming the first woman to successfully do so.
• 1974 - Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos 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 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, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
• 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.