About July 26
July 26, 2024 is the 208th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 158 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 187 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On 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.
- 1581 –Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
- 1775 –The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1822 –José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
- 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.
- 1882 –The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
- 1890 –In Buenos Aires the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Juárez Celman’s resignation.
- 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.
- 1936 –The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
- 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.
- 1945 –The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
- 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.
- 1951 –Walt Disney’s 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1958 –Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
- 1971 –Apollo Program: launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo “J-Mission”, and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
- 1977 –The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
- 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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