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
- 1469 –Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England takes place.
- 1509 –The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
- 1758 –French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
- 1822 –First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
- 1822 –José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
- 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.
- 1882 –The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
- 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.
- 1936 –King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
- 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.
- 1948 –U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1974 –Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the country’s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
- 1990 –The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
- 2007 –Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy.
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