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)