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07-26-2010, 03:29 AM
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This Date in History - July 26th
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* 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 Lιon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
* 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, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England.
* 1581 Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
* 1745 The first recorded women's cricket match took place near Guildford, England
* 1758 French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
* 1775 The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department is 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 Josι de San Martνn arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simσn Bolνvar.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 Revoluciσn del Parque takes place, forcing President Juαrez Celman's resignation.
* 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.
* 1936 King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicated the throne, officially unveiled the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
* 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.
* 1946 Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
* 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 favor 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 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
* 1958 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 (republic of southern Yugoslavia) 1100 dead
* 1963 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
* 1965 Full independence is 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 Constantinos Karamanlis 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.
* 1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
* 1994 Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.
* 1999 Cessation of combat activities after the Kargil War; Celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas in India.
* 2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
* 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 Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon.
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This Date in History - July 26th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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 Lιon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
* 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, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England.
* 1581 Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
* 1745 The first recorded women's cricket match took place near Guildford, England
* 1758 French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
* 1775 The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department is 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 Josι de San Martνn arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simσn Bolνvar.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 Revoluciσn del Parque takes place, forcing President Juαrez Celman's resignation.
* 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.
* 1936 King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicated the throne, officially unveiled the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
* 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.
* 1946 Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
* 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 favor 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 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
* 1958 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 (republic of southern Yugoslavia) 1100 dead
* 1963 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
* 1965 Full independence is 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 Constantinos Karamanlis 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.
* 1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
* 1994 Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.
* 1999 Cessation of combat activities after the Kargil War; Celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas in India.
* 2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
* 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 Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon.
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