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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1775 –The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1914 –Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
- 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 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.
- 1952 –King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
- 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 –The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
- 1965 –Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
- 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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