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 207^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 158 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 13, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,224,800 minutes 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 ‘dihectaheptagon’ 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 206 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 4,600 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 26 Historical Events

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1945 –
  The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
• 1947 –
  Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
• 1974 –
  Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the country’s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
• 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.

Who were born on July 26?

• 1875 –
  Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
• 1886 –
  Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
• 1892 –
  Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
• 1893 –
  George Grosz, German painter (d. 1959)
• 1895 –
  Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
• 1934 –
  Tommy McDonald, American football player
• 1942 –
  Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver
• 1943 –
  Peter Hyams, American film director
• 1944 –
  Kiel Martin, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1953 –
  Edie Mirman, American voice actress

Who died on July 26?

• 796 –
  King Offa of Mercia (birth year unknown)
• 1680 –
  John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
• 1684 –
  Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
• 1867 –
  King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
• 1930 –
  Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian (b. 1849)
• 1964 –
  Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician and race driver (b. 1884)
• 1990 –
  Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1952)
• 2005 –
  Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
• 2010 –
  Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (b. 1945)
• 2011 –
  Margaret Olley, Australian artist (b.1923)