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, 28,699,200 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 ‘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
- 657 –First Fitna: the Battle of Siffin see the troops led by Ali ibn Abi Talib and those led by Muawiyah I clashing.
- 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.
- 1882 –The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
- 1887 –Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
- 1897 –Anglo-Afghan wars: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
- 1946 –Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
- 1951 –Walt Disney’s 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, United Kingdom.
- 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
- 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.
Who were born on July 26?
- 1791 –Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1844)
- 1858 –Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1931 –Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager and player (d. 2006)
- 1950 –Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
- 1950 –Susan George, English actress
- 1959 –Kevin Spacey, American actor
- 1977 –Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
- 1979 –Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 –Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
- 1987 –Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
Who died on July 26?
- 1611 –Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
- 1801 –Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria (b. 1756)
- 1919 –Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
- 1941 –Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
- 2000 –John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
- 2001 –Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
- 2001 –Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
- 2005 –Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
- 2007 –Lars Forssell, Swedish writer (b. 1928)
- 2009 –Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (b. 1911)
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