History Events on July 26

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.

#Morgan's_Raid

World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.

#World_War_II

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Tr??ng ?ình 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.

#Vietnam_War

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.

#Arizona

The Swedish-Norwegian War begins.

#Swedish-Norwegian_War_(1814)

Cold War: 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

#Fidel_Castro

French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

#French_and_Indian_War

World War II: The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.

#Potsdam_Declaration

The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.

#Stellaland

Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

#Hillary_Clinton

Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.

#Spanish_Civil_War

An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.

#1963_Skopje_earthquake

U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States.

#Harry_S._Truman

Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.

#Wars_of_the_Roses

First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.

#First_Fitna

Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.

#Emmy_Noether

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).

#United_States_Attorney_General

Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.

#Henry_VII,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.

#History_of_women's_cricket

World War II: HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war.

#HMS_Vestal_(J215)

Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): The northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.

#Act_of_Abjuration

Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

#Space_Shuttle_program

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.

#American_Civil_War

The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom.

#Surrey_Iron_Railway

Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.

#Walt_Disney

Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.

#Richard_Wagner

World War II: The USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with components and enriched uranium for the Little Boy nuclear bomb.

#USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)

Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.

#Carlos_Castillo_Armas

Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.

#Apollo_program

Liberia declares its independence.

#Liberia

Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.

#Kargil_War

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.

#Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990

Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.

#Battle_of_Brunete

Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.

#Ulises_Heureaux

The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.

#United_States_Post_Office_Department

Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.

#World_Bank

Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.

#Battle_of_Pliska

José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.

#José_de_San_Martín

In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.

#Buenos_Aires

The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.

#Nigeria

Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.

#Unua_Libro

King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

#Edward_VIII

Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.

#Dadabhai_Naoroji

Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.

#Mumbai

World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.

#Red_Army

The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.

#Quebec

Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at the Battle of Valdejunquera.

#Navarre

The Emperor Krishnadevaraya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.

#Krishnadevaraya

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.

#Cold_War

King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.

#Farouk_of_Egypt

France annexes Tahiti.

#Tahiti

Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

#Prime_Minister_of_Greece

Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.

#2nd_Battalion,_Royal_Australian_Regiment

Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.

The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.

Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.

Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.

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.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.

Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.

Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.

Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.

The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.

Anglo-Afghan War: 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.

First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.

New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.

During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.