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Events on the 26th of July in history

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26 Jul 0657 First Fitna: in the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
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26 Jul 0811 Battle at Pliska: Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine
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26 Jul 0811 Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
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26 Jul 0920 Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
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26 Jul 1267 Inquistion forms in Rome under Pope Clement IV
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26 Jul 1309 Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1499 Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
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26 Jul 1509 The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
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26 Jul 1519 Pizarro receives royal charter for S American west coast
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26 Jul 1524 James I (12) becomes King of Scotland
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26 Jul 1529 Francisco Pizarro appointed Governor of Peru
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26 Jul 1576 Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst
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26 Jul 1579 Francis Drake leaves SF to cross Pacific Ocean
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26 Jul 1581 Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
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26 Jul 1588 John Hawkins becomes a knight
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26 Jul 1656 Rembrandt declares he is insolvent
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26 Jul 1663 France annexes Venaissin
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26 Jul 1678 England and Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France
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26 Jul 1745 The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
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26 Jul 1757 Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats Duke of Cumberland
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26 Jul 1758 British battle fleet under General James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1759 French troops vacate Ticonderoga, New York
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26 Jul 1775 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pa takes office
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26 Jul 1775 The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
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26 Jul 1775 Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General
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26 Jul 1788 Sydney, Australia settled by British colonists
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26 Jul 1788 New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
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26 Jul 1788 New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
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26 Jul 1790 US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
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26 Jul 1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom.
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26 Jul 1805 Naples / Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
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26 Jul 1822 Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin
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26 Jul 1822 José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1826 Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
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26 Jul 1832 HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo
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26 Jul 1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
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26 Jul 1847 Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride
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26 Jul 1847 Liberia declares its independence.
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26 Jul 1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
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26 Jul 1848 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
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26 Jul 1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1863 Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1865 Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium)
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26 Jul 1866 Canoe Club opens in England
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26 Jul 1881 French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax
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26 Jul 1882 Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
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26 Jul 1882 The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
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26 Jul 1887 Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
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26 Jul 1887 1st Esperanto book published
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26 Jul 1890 In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
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26 Jul 1891 France annexes Tahiti.
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26 Jul 1897 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1902 Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
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26 Jul 1905 P Gotz discovers asteroid #568 Cheruskia
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26 Jul 1908 Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice
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26 Jul 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).
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26 Jul 1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established
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26 Jul 1914 Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum
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26 Jul 1914 British Minister of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
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26 Jul 1914 German Chief of Staff / General von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
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26 Jul 1914 Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
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26 Jul 1915 International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
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26 Jul 1917 J Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice
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26 Jul 1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)
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26 Jul 1923 James Hoyt Wilhelm, pitcher
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26 Jul 1926 Philippines government asks US to plebiscite for independence
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26 Jul 1926 National Bar Association incorporates
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26 Jul 1928 Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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26 Jul 1928 Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
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26 Jul 1933 Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
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26 Jul 1936 The Axis powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
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26 Jul 1936 King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the thrоne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
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26 Jul 1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
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26 Jul 1938 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC
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26 Jul 1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
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26 Jul 1941 "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers
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26 Jul 1941 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
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26 Jul 1941 US embargo on oil-export to Japan
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1942 RAF bombs Hamburg
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26 Jul 1942 RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
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26 Jul 1943 120
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26 Jul 1944 Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
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26 Jul 1944 Russian troops arrive in Weichsel
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes Prime Minister
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26 Jul 1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US / Britain / China demands Japanese surrender
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26 Jul 1945 Japanese government disregards US ultimatum
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26 Jul 1945 US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb
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26 Jul 1945 The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
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26 Jul 1945 The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
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26 Jul 1945 HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War
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26 Jul 1945 The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
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26 Jul 1945 Churchill resigns as Britain's PM
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26 Jul 1946 President Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
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26 Jul 1946 Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
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26 Jul 1947 Department of Defense forms
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1947 Department of Defense established
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26 Jul 1947 National Security Act establishes the CIA
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26 Jul 1948 Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a New York Giant
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26 Jul 1948 President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in armed forces
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26 Jul 1948 U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
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26 Jul 1948 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show
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26 Jul 1948 Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of
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26 Jul 1949 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1951 Lick
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26 Jul 1950 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
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26 Jul 1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
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26 Jul 1951 Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
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26 Jul 1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
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26 Jul 1952 King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
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26 Jul 1952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
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26 Jul 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
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1953 Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
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26 Jul 1953 Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba
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26 Jul 1953 Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban rev
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26 Jul 1954 WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Jul 1955 37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook Country Club - Detroit
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26 Jul 1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal
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26 Jul 1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
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26 Jul 1957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
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26 Jul 1957 USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
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26 Jul 1958 Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
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26 Jul 1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
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26 Jul 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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26 Jul 1959 C Hoffmeister discovers asteroid #2183
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26 Jul 1960 Italian government of Fanfani forms
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26 Jul 1962 Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
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26 Jul 1962 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
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26 Jul 1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
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26 Jul 1963 Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
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26 Jul 1963 An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
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26 Jul 1963 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
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26 Jul 1963 US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
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26 Jul 1964 US union leader James Hoffa sentenced for fraud
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26 Jul 1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
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26 Jul 1964 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
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26 Jul 1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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26 Jul 1965 Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
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26 Jul 1966 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
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26 Jul 1967 Twins beat Yanks 3-2 in 18
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
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26 Jul 1970 Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton
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26 Jul 1971 Apollo 15 launched (Scott & Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
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26 Jul 1971 Apollo program: launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
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26 Jul 1971 Nicolette Milnes-Walker completes sailing non-stop single-handedly across the Atlantic, becoming the first woman to successfully do so.
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26 Jul 1971 Apollo 15 launched to the Moon
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26 Jul 1971 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #1836 Komarov
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26 Jul 1973 Peter Shaffers "Equus, " premieres in London
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26 Jul 1974 Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
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26 Jul 1974 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
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26 Jul 1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
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26 Jul 1977 The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
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26 Jul 1978 Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run
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26 Jul 1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)
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26 Jul 1981 New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
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26 Jul 1981 2 climbers rappell 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
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26 Jul 1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2845 Franklinken & #2882 Tedesco
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26 Jul 1982 Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe
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26 Jul 1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
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26 Jul 1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
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26 Jul 1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
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26 Jul 1983 Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
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26 Jul 1984 Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
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26 Jul 1984 Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction
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26 Jul 1984 Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use
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26 Jul 1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
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26 Jul 1987 Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball HOF
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26 Jul 1987 Stephen Roche wins Tour de France
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26 Jul 1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies and New York Mets end that game at 2:13 AM
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26 Jul 1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as
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26 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1990 President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
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26 Jul 1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Reds-Padres game
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26 Jul 1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George Bush.
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26 Jul 1990 General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode
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26 Jul 1990 US beats the Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at the Goodwill Games
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26 Jul 1991 CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
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26 Jul 1991 Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater
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26 Jul 1991 Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
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26 Jul 1991 Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing
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26 Jul 1992 "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 108 performances
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26 Jul 1992 England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Islands war
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26 Jul 1992 Kiss Guitarist Paul Stanley weds Pamela Bowen
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26 Jul 1992 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons
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26 Jul 1992 Rocker Paul Stanley (Kiss) weds model Pamela Bowen
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26 Jul 1993 Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
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26 Jul 1993 Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
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26 Jul 1994 Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
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26 Jul 1998 19th US Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera Country Club - Pacific Palisades, California
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26 Jul 1998 Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
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26 Jul 2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
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26 Jul 2005 Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
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26 Jul 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.
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