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- 0657 Battle of Siffin.
- 0811 Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.
- 0920 Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Lon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
- 1139 Afonso, then a count, is proclaimed first king of Portugal and declares independence from Leon.
- 1309 Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
- 1581 Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
- 1775 The Post Office is esablished by the Continental Congress with Ben Franklin as postmaster general.
- 1775 The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1788 New York becomes 11th state to ratify US constitution
- 1790 US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
- 1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.
- 1812 Frigate Essex captures British brig Leander
- 1822 Jos de San Martn arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simn Bolvar.
- 1835 The first sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
- 1847 Liberia, settled in Africa by freed U.S. slaves, becomes the first African colony to become an independent state.
- 1848 The first Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
- 1863 At Salineville, OH John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
- 1865 Patrick Francis Healy is first black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium)
- 1866 Canoe Club opens in England
- 1878 In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
- 1882 Premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at Bayreuth.
- 1887 The first Esperanto book published
- 1891 France annexes Tahiti.
- 1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established
- 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).
- 1912 First airborne radio communications from naval aircraft to ship (LT John Rodgers to USS Stringham)
- 1914 Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
- 1920 Women in the US obtain the right to vote as the 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified.
- 1923 James Hoyt Wilhelm, pitcher
- 1926 National Bar Association incorporates
- 1934 Assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
- 1936 The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1941 World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
- 1942 CAPT Joy Bright Hancock appointed Director, Women's Naval Reserve.
- 1944 The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
- 1944 World War II: Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation.
- 1945 Churchill resigns as Britain's PM
- 1945 The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
- 1945 The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
- 1945 The US Navy cruiser Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
- 1947 Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
- 1947 Department of Defense established
- 1947 National Security Act establishes the CIA
- 1948 Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in the armed forces
- 1948 The first black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show
- 1952 Eva "Evita" Peron Argentina's first lady, dies in Buenos Aires at 33
- 1952 King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favour of his son Fuad.
- 1952 Mickey Mantle hits his first grand-slammer
- 1953 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
- 1953 Cuban pirate radio station's first transmission at Santiago de Cuba
- 1953 Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
- 1954 3 aircraft from USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) shoot down 2 Chinese fighters that fired on them while they were providing air cover for rescue operations for a U.K. airliner shot down by a Chinese aircraft.
- 1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
- 1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal (soon Britian and France along with Isreal show up)
- 1956 Following the World Bank's decline to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
- 1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
- 1957 USSR launches first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
- 1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
- 1959 C Hoffmeister discovers asteroid #2183
- 1962 Number one hit on UK music charts - Frank Ifield - I Remember You
- 1963 Earthquake in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) - 1100 dead
- 1963 Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
- 1963 US Syncom 2, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
- 1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
- 1964 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
- 1965 Full independence was granted to the Maldives.
- 1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
- 1966 Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
- 1967 Visitor posting - Jamie Turner, USASOC Soldier. Born in Duluth, Georgia. - USA
- 1968 Visitor posting - James John Redican born in Garden Grove, California - USA
- 1968 Visitor posting - Caitlin Alex Redican is born in Phoenix, Arizona - USA
- 1968 Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu 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.
- 1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes first lady to solo sail the Pacific
- 1971 Apollo 15, a manned lunar expedition, is launched.
- 1973 Visitor posting - 26th July1973 Ar.Muthuvel born in chennai, India
- 1974 Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
- 1974 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
- 1975 Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal.
- 1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
- 1977 Visitor posting - brian cameron is born. The world celebrates... - United Kingdom [email protected]
- 1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)
- 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Odyssey - Use It Up And Wear It Out
- 1981 2 climbers rappell 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
- 1981 NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
- 1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
- 1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
- 1988 Tlesa Ann Meadowcroft is born Salt Lake City, Utah
- 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 General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode
- 1990 US beats the Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at the Goodwill Games
- 1991 Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater
- 1993 Italian Democrazia Cristian changes its name to People's Party.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Shivani Gosai was born - USA
- 1999 "Eagles:Hell Freezers" Over becomes the best selling music DVD
- 2002 Visitor posting - Kirsten Jane Bryan was born - United Kingdom
- 2004 Visitor posting - July 26, 2004: Joanne Honda starts work in Workforce Staffing and Development
- 2005 Visitor posting - Cody Turner Brown born - USA
- 2005 Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
- 2009 Visitor posting - July 26, 2009: Joanne Honda is vested at HECO!
- 2009 Visitor posting - I, Proinsias, met the love of my life in Thurles. Her name is Ali. - Ireland
- 2009 Visitor posting - July 26 2009 Veda Quiroz is born!!! Apple Valley, Ca
- 2010 Wikileaks releases 92,000 secret Afghan-war files - White House condemns move
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