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Events [ ] 657 - Battle of Siffin .811 - Battle of Pliska ; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.920 - Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon 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 .1469 - Wars of the Roses : Battle of Edgecote Moor - Pitting the forces of Richard Neville against those of King Edward IV .1581 - Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration) . The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II .1775 - The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress .1788 - New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States .1803 - The Surrey Iron Railway , arguably the world's first public railway , opens in south London .1822 - José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil , Ecuador , to meet with Simón Bolívar .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 , Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.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 Bayreuth .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.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 .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.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 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 .1948 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States .1952 - King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favour of his son Fuad .1953 - Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks , thus beginning the Cuban Revolution .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 .
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 assassinated1958 - Explorer program : Explorer 4 is launched.1963 - Syncom 2 , the world's first geosynchronous satellite , is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.1963 - Earthquake in Skopje , Republic of Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia ) - 1100 dead
1963 - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan .
1965 - Full independence was granted to the Maldives .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 .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 .1971 - Apollo Program : Apollo 15 Mission - Launch of Apollo 15.1974 - Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.1975 - Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal .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 .1993 - Italian Democrazia Cristian changes its name to People's Party .1994 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia . Space Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launch on July 26, 2005 .
Births [ ] 1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów , St. Stanislaw (d. 1079 )1678 - Joseph I (d. 1711 )1782 - John Field , Irish composer (d. 1837 )1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , composer (d. 1844 )1802 - Mariano Arista , President of Mexico (d. 1855 )1829 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert , Belgian statesman, Nobel Laureate (d. 1912 )1855 - Ferdinand Tönnies , German sociologist (d. 1936 )1856 - George Bernard Shaw , Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1950 )1865 - Philipp Scheidemann , 1st Chancellors of the Weimar Republic (d. 1939 )1874 - Serge Koussevitsky , Russian conductor (d. 1951 )1875 - Carl Jung , Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961 )1875 - Antonio Machado , Spanish poet (d. 1939 )
1880 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko , Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951 )1885 - André Maurois , French author (d. 1967 )1886 - Lars Hanson , Swedish actor (d. 1965 )1892 - Sam Jones , American baseball player (d. 1966 )1894 - Aldous Huxley , English-born author (d. 1963 )1895 - Gracie Allen , American actress and comedian (d. 1964 )1896 - Henry Birkin , British racing driver (d. 1933 )1897 - Paul Gallico , American author (d. 1976 )1903 - Estes Kefauver , U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963 )1906 - Irena Iłłakowicz , Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943 )1908 - Salvador Allende , President of Chile (d. 1973 )1909 - Peter Thorneycroft , British politician (d. 1994 )1909 - Vivian Vance , American actress (d. 1979 )
1914 - Erskine Hawkins , American musician and bandleader (d. 1993 )1914 - Ellis Kinder , American baseball player (d. 1968 )
1918 - Marjorie Lord , American actress1920 - Bob Waterfield , American football player (d. 1983 )1921 - Jean Shepherd , American writer (d. 1999 )1922 - Blake Edwards , American film director1922 - Jason Robards , American actor (d. 2000 )
1922 - Hoyt Wilhelm , American baseball player (d. 2002 )
1923 - Jan Berenstain , American author1925 - Jerzy Einhorn , Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (d. 2000 )1926 - James Best , American actor1928 - Don Beauman , British racing driver (d. 1955 )1928 - Francesco Cossiga , 8th President of the Italian Republic
1928 - Ibn-e-Safi , Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980 )
1928 - Stanley Kubrick , American film director (d. 1999 )
1928 - Peter Lougheed , Canadian politician
1929 - Marc Lalonde , French Canadian politician1929 - Alexis Weissenberg , Bulgarian-born French pianist
1931 - Takashi Ono , Japanese gymnast1936 - Mary Millar , English actress (d. 1998 )1938 - Bobby Hebb , American musician1939 - John Howard , 25th Prime Minister of Australia 1939 - Bob Lilly , American football player
1940 - Dobie Gray , American singer1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne , American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969 )
1940 - Tolis Voskopoulos , Greek singer
1941 - Brenton Wood , American singer-songwriter1941 - Darlene Love , American singer
1942 - Vladimír Mečiar , Slovak prime minister1942 - Teddy Pilette , Belgian racing driver
1943 - Peter Hyams , American film director1943 - Mick Jagger , English singer (The Rolling Stones )
1944 - Kiel Martin , American actor (d. 1990 )1945 - Helen Mirren , English actress1949 - Roger Taylor , English musician (Queen )1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra , ex-Prime Minister of Thailand
1950 - Susan George , English actress1950 - Nelinho , Brazilian footballer
1950 - Rich Vogler , American race car driver (d. 1990 )
1951 - Rick Martin , Canadian ice hockey player1953 - Robert Phillips , classical guitarist1954 - Vitas Gerulaitis , American tennis player (d. 1994 )1956 - Dorothy Hamill , American figure skater1957 - Nana Visitor , American actress1957 - Yuen Biao , Hong Kong actor
1959 - Rick Bragg , American writer1959 - Kevin Spacey , American actor
1959 - Michael Ross , American serial killer (d. 2005 )
1961 - Gary Cherone , American musician (Extreme )1961 - Andy Connell , English musician (Swing Out Sister , A Certain Ratio )
1961 - Keiko Matsui , Japanese musician and composer
1961 - Dimitris Saravakos , Greek footballer
1964 - Sandra Bullock , American actress1964 - Danny Woodburn , American actor
1964 - Ralf Metzenmacher , German painter and designer
1965 - Jeremy Piven , American actor1965 - Jim Lindberg , American musician (Pennywise )
1967 - Tim Schafer , American computer game designer1968 - Olivia Williams , English actress1973 - Kate Beckinsale , British actress1973 - Lenka Šarounová , Czech astronomer
1974 - Dean Sturridge , English Footballer1974 - Daniel Negreanu , Canadian poker player
1974 - Dan Konopka , American Drummer in OK Go
1977 - Martin Laursen , Danish footballer1977 - Rebecca St. James , Australian-born singer
1979 - Peter Sarno , Canadian ice hockey player1979 - Erik Westrum , American ice hockey player
1980 - Dave Baksh , Canadian guitarist (Sum 41 )1980 - Lee Dong-gun , South Korean actor
1981 - Abe Forsythe , Australian actor/director1982 - Chez Starbuck , American actor1983 - Delonte West , American basketball player1983 - Roderick Strong , American professional wrestler
1985 - Gaël Clichy , French footballer1985 - Audrey De Montigny , Quebec singer
1987 - Miriam McDonald , Canadian actress1988 - Lara Jean Marshall , Australian actress1993 - Taylor Momsen , American actressDeaths [ ] 796 - Offa , King of Mercia811 - Nicephorus I , Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322 )1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417 )1592 - Armand de Gontaut , French soldier (b. 1524 )1611 - Horio Yoshiharu , Japanese warlord (b. 1542 )1680 - John Wilmot , English writer (b. 1647 )1684 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia , Italian mathematician (b. 1646 )1712 - Thomas Osborne , English statesman (b. 1631 )1723 - Robert Bertie , English statesman (b. 1660 )1863 - Sam Houston , President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793 )1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815 )1919 - Sir Edward Poynter , British painter (b. 1836 )1925 - Gottlob Frege , German mathematician and logician (b. 1848 )1925 - William Jennings Bryan , American politician (b. 1860 )
1925 - Antonio Ascari , Italian racing driver (b. 1888 )
1932 - Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (b. 1876 )1935 - Winsor McCay , American cartoonist (b. 1871 )1941 - Henri Lebesgue , French mathematician (b. 1875 )1942 - Roberto Arlt , Argentinian writer (b. 1900 )1952 - Eva Perón , wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919 )1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras , Greek general and politician (b. 1883 )1960 - Maud Menten , Canadian biochemist (b. 1879 )1960 - Cedric Gibbons , American art director (b. 1893 )
1964 - Francis Curzon , British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884 )1969 - Frank Loesser , American composer (b. 1910 )1970 - Robert Taschereau , French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896 )1971 - Diane Arbus , American photographer (suicide) (b. 1923 )1980 - Ibn-e-Safi , Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928 )1984 - George Gallup , American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901 )1984 - Ed Gein , American serial killer (b. 1906 )
1986 - Averell Harriman , American diplomat (b. 1891 )1988 - Fazlur Rahman , Pakistani scholar (b. 1919 )1990 - Brent Mydland , American keyboardist (Grateful Dead ) (b. 1952 )1992 - Mary Wells , American singer (b. 1943 )1993 - Matthew Ridgeway , American army general (b. 1895 )1995 - Laurindo Almeida , Brazilian guitarist (b. 1917 )1995 - Raymond Mailloux , Quebec politician (b. 1918 )
1995 - George Romney , American businessman and politician (b. 1907 )
2000 - John Tukey , American statistician (b. 1915 )2001 - Rex Barber , American WWII aviator (b. 1917 )2001 - Peter von Zahn , German journalist (b. 1913 )
2005 - Betty Astell , British actress (b. 1912 )2005 - Jack Hirshleifer , American economist (b. 1925 )
2005 - Gilles Marotte , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945 )
2007 - Lars Forssell , Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (b. 1928 )2007 - John Normington , English actor (b. 1937 )
2007 - Skip Prosser , American basketball coach (b. 1950 ) Holidays and Observances [ ] Roman Catholicism
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126 Familypedia people were born on July 26
178 Familypedia people died on July 26
76 Familypedia people were first married on July 26
