What are the important events that happened on July 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 26: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 26 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 13, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,721,952,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctagon’ day.
Leo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,235 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 26 Historical Events
1309 –
Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1509 –
The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1788 –
New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
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.
1936 –
The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1946 –
Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
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
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 –
Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
Who were born on July 26?
1916 –
Herbert Norkus, German Nazi and murder victim (d. 1932)
1925 –
Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-born Swedish doctor, researcher, politician and concentration camp survivor (d. 2000)
1926 –
James Best, American actor
1934 –
Tommy McDonald, American football player
1940 –
Bobby Rousseau, Quebec ice hockey player
1943 –
Peter Hyams, American film director
1950 –
Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
1973 –
Vaniity, Mexican transsexual pornographic actress
1977 –
Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
1987 –
Fredy Montero, Colombian footballer
Who died on July 26?
811 –
Nikephoros I Logothetes, Byzantine Emperor (birth year unknown)
1611 –
Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1723 –
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1925 –
Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1980 –
Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1984 –
George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
1994 –
Tonia Marketaki, Greek film director and screenwriter (b. 1942)
2001 –
Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2005 –
Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2007 –
Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)
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