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
- 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.
- 1533 –Atahualpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro’s Spanish conquistadors. His death marks the end of 300 years of Inca civilization.
- 1745 –The first recorded women’s cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
- 1775 –The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1936 –King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
- 1937 –End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1944 –The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
- 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 Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
- 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
- 1963 –An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in the Republic of Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
- 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.
- 2008 –56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.
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