Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
July 26
| 657 | Mu'awiyan defeats Caliph Ali in the Battle of Siffin in Mesopotamia. | |
| 1526 | Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon and colonists leave Santo Domingo for Florida. | |
| 1529 | Francisco Pizarro receives a royal warrant to "discover and conquer" Peru. | |
| 1758 | British forces capture France's Fortress of Louisbourg after a seven-week siege. | |
| 1759 | The French relinquish Fort Ticonderoga in New York to the British under General Jeffrey Amherst. | |
| 1775 | The Continental Congress establishes a postal system for the colonies with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general. | |
| 1790 | An attempt at a counter-revolution in France is put down by the National Guard at Lyons. | |
| 1794 | The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus, France. | |
| 1830 | King Charles X of France issues five ordinances limiting the political and civil rights of citizens. | |
| 1847 | Liberia becomes the first African colony to become an independent state. | |
| 1848 | The French army suppresses the Paris uprising. | |
| 1886 | William Gladstone is replaced by Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister of England. | |
| 1918 | Britain's top war ace, Edward Mannock, is shot down by ground fire on the Western Front. | |
| 1920 | The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified. | |
| 1948 | In an Executive Order, President Harry Truman calls for the end of discrimination and segregation in the U.S. armed forces. | |
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Born on July 26 |
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| 1796 | George Catlin, American artist and author. | |
| 1856 | George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, Major Barbara). | |
| 1875 | Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist. | |
| 1893 | George Grosz, German satiric artist. | |
| 1895 | Gracie Allen, actress, wife and foil of George Burns. | |
| 1895 | Robert Graves, poet and novelist ( I Claudius). | |
| 1914 | Erskine Hawkins, trumpeter. | |
| 1928 | Stanley Kubrick, film director (Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey). | |
| 1928 | Bernice Rubens, Welsh novelist and filmmaker. | |
| 1943 | Mick [Michael Phillip] Jagger, musician, member of the Rolling Stones. | |
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