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657Jul 26Mu’awiyan defeated Caliph Ali in the Battle of Siffin in Mesopotamia [now Iraq].
796Jul 26Offa, king of Mercia (in central England), died.
811Jul 26Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), died in the Battle at Pliska. The Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat the Byzantines.
1267Jul 26The Inquisition formed in Rome under Pope Clement IV.
1497Jul 26“Edward IV’s son” Perkin Warbeck’s army landed in Cork.
1524Jul 26James I became king of Scotland at age 12.
1526Jul 26The Spaniard Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon and his colonists left Santo Domingo in the Caribbean for Florida.
1529Jul 26Francisco Pizarro received a royal warrant in Toledo, Spain, to “discover and conquer” Peru.
1579Jul 26Francis Drake left SF to cross Pacific Ocean.
1588Jul 26Captain John Hawkins was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
1656Jul 26Rembrandt declared he is insolvent.
1678Jul 26Joseph I Habsburg, German king, Roman catholic emperor (1705-11), was born.
1680Jul 26John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet, courtier, died.
1775Jul 26The Continental Congress established a postal system for the colonies with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general in Philadelphia.
1782Jul 26John Field, pianist, composer (Nocturnes), was born in Dublin, Ireland.
1788Jul 26New York became the 11th state to ratify the Constitution.
1790Jul 26An attempt at a counter-revolution in France was put down by the National Guard at Lyons.
1791Jul 26Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM, was born.
1794Jul 26After remaining uncharacteristically silent for several weeks, Robespierre demanded that the National Convention punish “traitors” without naming them.
1796Jul 26George Catlin, American artist and author, was born.
1805Jul 26Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock), was born.
1822Jul 26Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin held a secret meeting.
1826Jul 26Riots in Vilnius, Lithuanian, caused the death of many Jews.
1848Jul 26Charles Ellet Jr., engineer, completed a light suspension bridge over the Niagara River. A boy’s kite was used to transfer the 1st line across.
1856Jul 26George Bernard Shaw (d.1950), Irish-born, English dramatist, critic and social reformer (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), was born in Dublin. “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
1858Jul 26Baron Lionel de Rothschild became the 1st Jew elected to British Parliament.
1863Jul 26Samuel Houston (70), 1st Pres. of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), died.
1864Jul 26Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood’s Third Sortie].
1870Jul 26In France Marx’s “First Address” was approved and internationally distributed by the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association.
1871Jul 26Ferdinand Hayden (1830-1887) and his government sponsored team arrived at the Yellowstone Lake and the geyser fields.
1874Jul 26Serge Koussevitsky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, was born in Vishny-Volotchok, Russia.
1882Jul 26Richard Wagner’s final opera “Parsifal,” premiered in Bayreuth, Germany.
1886Jul 26William Gladstone was replaced by Lord Salisbury as prime minister of England.
1895Jul 26Gracie Allen, vaudeville, screen, radio and television personality, wife and foil of George Burns, was born.
1908Jul 26Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile’s last elected president (1970-73), was born.
1909Jul 26The SS Waratah left Durban, South Africa, with 211 passengers and crew. The steamship, enroute from Melbourne to London, was due in Cape Town 3 days later, but never arrived.
1914Jul 26Austrian-Hungary condemned a Serbian ultimatum.
1917Jul 26J. Edgar Hoover got job with the Justice Department.
1918Jul 26Britain’s top war ace, Edward Mannock, was shot down by ground fire on the Western Front.
1922Jul 26Jason Robards Jr, actor (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday), was born in Chicago.
1925Jul 26Tyeb Mehta, painter and film maker, was born in Gujarat, India. In 2005 one of his paintings fetched $1.58 million.
1926Jul 26Philippines government asked the US to plebiscite for independence.
1928Jul 26Bernice Rubens, Welsh novelist and filmmaker, was born.
1929Jul 26Jean Shepherd, humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969), was born.
1939Jul 26The London Times reported the discovery of a buried ship and other artifacts at Sutton Hoo. Archeologist later suspected that it was an empty grave and memorial for a 7th century Anglo-Saxon chief.
1940Jul 26Mary Jo Kopechne (d.1969), killed while driving with Ted Kennedy, was born.
1941Jul 26Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), American linguist, died. He had argued that different languages condition or restrain the mind’s habits of thought.
1942Jul 26Roman Catholic churches protested the Dutch bishops’ stand against the spread of Judaism.
1943Jul 26Otto Skorzeny’s commando group arrived in Rome.
1944Jul 26The first desegregation in the US Army.
1945Jul 26Winston Churchill resigned as Britain’s prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labor Party. Clement Attlee became the new prime minister.
1946Jul 26President Truman ordered the desegregation of all US forces.
1952Jul 26King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1956Jul 26The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank off New England, some 11 hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm; at least 51 people died.
1957Jul 26Pres. Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala was assassinated.
1958Jul 26Britain’s Prince Charles (9), was made the Prince of Wales by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, although his investiture did not take place until the following year.
1959Jul 26There was a partial nuclear reactor meltdown at Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. A report in 2006 said it may have caused hundreds of cases of cancer in the community, and that chemicals threatened to contaminate ground and water.
1963Jul 26In San Francisco The Fly Trap restaurant at 73 Sutter St. closed to make room for the 43-story Wells Fargo Tower.
1964Jul 26Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
1965Jul 26Republic of Maldives (Falkland Islands) gained independence from Britain.
1968Jul 26Britain’s Theater Act abolished censorship of the theatre and amended the law in respect of theatres and theatrical performances.
1971Jul 26Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy.
1973Jul 26Peter Shaffer’s “Equus,” premiered in London.
1984Jul 26Ed Gein (b.1906), mass murderer (movie “Psycho” based on him), died.
1986Jul 26Kidnappers in Lebanon released the Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months.
1987Jul 26US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger said the Navy’s anti-mine capabilities would be improved in the Persian Gulf in the wake of a mine explosion that damaged the tanker Bridgeton.
1988Jul 26U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar met twice with Iran’s foreign minister in the first formal talks about a cease-fire for the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq.
1989Jul 26Mark Wellman, a 29-year-old paraplegic, reached the summit of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park after hauling himself up the granite cliff six inches at a time over nine days.
1990Jul 26US Congress passed and Pres. George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
1991Jul 26Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) was arrested in Florida for exposing himself at an adult movie theater.
1992Jul 26Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) went into effect.
1993Jul 26President Clinton launched a harder sell for his budget at a conference in Chicago, accusing Republicans of gridlock.
1994Jul 26The US House Banking Committee opened limited hearings on the Whitewater controversy.
1995Jul 26The Senate voted 69-to-29 to unilaterally lift the UN embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia.
1996Jul 26Amy Van Dyken became the first American woman to win four gold medals at a single Olympics as she captured the 50-meter freestyle in Atlanta.
1997Jul 26In Belgium at the Ostend Air Show a Jordanian aerobatics airplane crashed and killed 9 people.
1998Jul 26AT&T and British Telecommunications PLC announced they were forming a joint venture to combine international operations and develop a new Internet system. The joint venture, known as Concert, proved a money-loser and was shut down.
1999Jul 26Cary Stayner, a motel handyman, described in detail for an off-camera jailhouse interview with San Francisco TV station KBWB how he’d killed a naturalist and three Yosemite sightseers.
2000Jul 26George W. Bush and his just-chosen running mate, Dick Cheney, set out on their first campaign excursion together as they visited Cheney’s former hometown of Casper, Wyoming.
2001Jul 26Hewlett-Packard announced 6,000 worldwide job cuts and JDS Uniphase announced another 7,000 cuts.
2002Jul 26The US Republican-led House voted, 295 to 132, to create an enormous Homeland Security Department, the biggest government reorganization in decades.
2003Jul 26Backers of a drive to oust California Governor Gray Davis held a boisterous celebration at the state Capitol in Sacramento, more than two months before the Oct. 7 recall election.
2004Jul 26A new variation of the Mydoom computer virus spread across the Internet.
2005Jul 26Danny Simon (86), TV comedy writer and older brother of Neil Simon, died in Portland, Ore.
2006Jul 26Iraq’s PM Nouri al-Maliki addressed US Congress and asked for more US reconstruction aid. He did not talk of sectarian violence in Iraq and did not mention Hezbollah.
2007Jul 26The US Senate passed, 85-8, a measure intensifying national anti-terror efforts.
2008Jul 26In southern Afghanistan NATO-led soldiers killed four civilians after opening fire on a car that did not stop at a checkpoint.
2009July 26Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stepped down and was replaced by Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell.
2010Jul 26A special tribunal in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants against four senior leaders of the country’s largest Islamic party ahead of a planned trial over alleged crimes against humanity during the nation’s 1971 independence war.
2011Jul 26Oregon Rep. David Wu (56) said he would resign his Democratic seat in the US Congress following allegations of sexual misconduct with a teenage girl.
2012Jul 26The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced that 90 people had been arrested after a nationwide bust. Agents also seized some 5 million packets of synthetic drugs and supplies to make 14 million more.
2013Jul 26The Obama administration said it plans to repatriate two inmates to Algeria from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
2014Jul 26The United States evacuated its Libyan embassy staff under air cover as they faced a “real risk” from fierce fighting around Tripoli airport.
Source: Timelines of History  

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