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July 26 is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 158 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 657 – ...
Potsdam Declaration. The Potsdam Declaration, or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, was a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of China Chiang Kai-shek ...
The 26th of July Movement ( Spanish: Movimiento 26 de julio; M-26-7) was a Cuban vanguard revolutionary organization and later a political party led by Fidel Castro. The movement's name commemorates the failed 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, part of an attempt to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista.
On July 26, 1764, four Delaware (Lenape) Native Americans entered a settlers' log schoolhouse in the Province of Pennsylvania and killed the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and ten students. One other student named Archie McCullough was wounded. [ 1] The massacre is the first school shooting recorded in U.S. history. [ 2]
2009 Taconic State Parkway crash. The 2009 Taconic State Parkway crash was a traffic collision that occurred shortly after 1:30 p.m. on July 26, 2009, on the Taconic State Parkway in the town of Mount Pleasant, near the village of Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States. [ 1] A minivan, being driven by 36-year-old Diane Schuler, traveled 1.7 ...
1953 – 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. 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. 1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
Independence Day. 3 July. 1944. Nazi Germany. The liberation of Minsk after several years of German occupation in 1944. Two other independence days – 25 March (proclamation of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918) and 27 July (independence from the Soviet Union in 1990) – are commemorated unofficially.
Events. 1775 – The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress.; 1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.