26 Julie

The 26t o Julie is the 207t day o the year (208t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 158 days ti come.

 Events 
 1581 - The Law Kintras declare unthirldom frae Spain.
 1745 - The first-recordit weemen's cricket match taks place in Guildford, Surrey, Ingland.
 1758 - French an Indian War: The Siege o Louisbourg ends wi Breetish forces takkin control o the Gulf o Saunt Lawrence.
 1788 - New York becomes the 11t state tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
 1822 - José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil tae meet wi Simon Bolivar.
 1847 - Liberie declares unthirldom.
 1891 - Fraunce taks control o Tahiti.
 1908 - The FBI is foondit.
 1936 - The Axis pouers decide tae intervene on the side o Francisco Franco in the Spaingie Ceevil War.
 1945 - Clement Attlee's Labour Pairty defeats Winston Churchill's Conservative Pairty in the Unitit Kinrick General Election.
 1953 - Cuba's revolutionar muivement stairts.
 1956 - Egyptian Preses Gamal Abdel Nasser naitionalises the Suez Canal.
 1963 - Skopje, in the present day Republic o Macedonie (then in Yugoslavie) is hit bi a yirdquauk, killin 1,100 fowk.
 1965 - The Maldives gain unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick. 
 1974 - Kontantinos Karamanlis forms Greece's first ceevilian govrenment in seeven year.
 1994 - Boris Yeltsin orders the removal o Roushie troops frae Estonie.
 2005 - The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-114, the first Space Shuttle mission syne the Columbia disaster in 2003.
 2005 - A metre o rain falls in a day in Mumbai, leadin tae deadly floods. 
 2008 - Bomb attacks in Ahmedabad, Indie, kill 56 fowk.
 2009 - Sarah Palin offeecially demits as Govrenor o Alaska.
 2016 - A stobbin attack on a hame for disabled fowk in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefectur, Japan, results in 19 daiths.
 2016 - "Solar Impulse 2" becomes the first solar-pouered plane tae circumnavigate the warld.
 2017 - US Preses Donald Trump propales on Twitter that he is bannin Transgender fowk frae servin in the US Militar.
 2019 - The 2019 Pan American Gemmes in Lima, Peru, stairt.

 Births 
 1612 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
 1678 - Joseph I, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
 1739 - George Clinton, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1812)
 1772 - David Boyle, Laird Boyle, Scots juidge (d. 1853)
 1822 - Robert William Thomson, Scots inventor (d. 1873)
 1829 - Auguste Beernaert, 14t Prime meenister o Belgium (d. 1912)
 1842 - Alfred Marshall, Inglis economist (d. 1924)
 1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Erse writer (d. 1950)
 1865 - Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor o Germany (d. 1939)
 1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist an psychotherapist (d. 1961) 
 1894 - Aldous Huxley, Inglis writer (d. 1963)
 1922 - Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000) 
 1926 - James Best, American actor (d. 2015)
 1928 - Francesco Cossiga, Preses o Italy (d. 2010)
 1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American filmmaker (d. 1999)
 1933 - Edmund Phelps, American economist
 1939 - John Howard, 25t Prime Meenister o Australie
 1943 - Sir Mick Jagger, Inglis muisicker
 1945 - Dame Helen Mirren, Inglis actress
 1949 - Roger Taylor, Inglis muisicker
 1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra, umwhile Prime meenister o Thailand
 1955 - Asif Ali Zardari, umwhile Preses o Pakistan
 1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
 1964 - Sandra Bullock, American actress
 1966 - Anna Rita Del Piano, Italian actress
 1967 - Jason Statham, Inglis actor
 1972 - Raymond Russell, Scots gowfer
 1973 - Kate Beckinsale, Inglis actress
 1975 - Elizabeth Truss, Inglis politeecian
 1980 - Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand politeecian, 40t Prime meenister o New Zealand
 1990 - Martin Campbell, Scots badminton player

 Daiths 
 432 - Pape Celestine I
 796 - Offa, Keeng o Mercie (in the wast o present-day Ingland)
 1471 - Pape Paul II (b. 1417)
 1533 - Atahualpa, Inca ruler (b. 1502)
 1863 - Sam Houston, American general an politeecian (b. 1793)
 1867 - Otto o Greece (b. 1815)
 1877 - Carstairs Douglas, Scots meesionar (b. 1830)
 1918 - Henry Macintosh, Scots athlete (b. 1892)
 1924 - William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Scots ornithologist (b. 1863)
 1952 - Eva Perón, First Lady o Argentinae (b. 1919)
 2002 - Pat Douthwaite, Scots penter (b. 1934)
 2015 - Ann Rule, American true crime author (b. 1931)

 Halidays 
 Independence Day (Liberie, Maldives)

Category:Days o the year