About July 26
July 26, 2023 is the 207th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 158 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 199 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.
- 920 –Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
- 1803 –The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London.
- 1847 –Liberia declares 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.
- 1887 –Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
- 1890 –In Buenos Aires the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Juárez Celman’s resignation.
- 1914 –Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
- 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 Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
- 1946 –Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
- 1948 –U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
- 1963 –An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in the Republic of Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzũ 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.
- 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 H. W. Bush.
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