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
- 811 –Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus I is killed and his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.
- 1822 –José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
- 1882 –Premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
- 1887 –Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
- 1891 –France annexes Tahiti.
- 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).
- 1914 –Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
- 1936 –The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1944 –The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
- 1945 –The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
- 1945 –The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
- 1948 –U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
- 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.
- 1974 –Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the country’s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
- 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.
- 2005 –Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
- 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.
- 2009 –The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
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