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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
1788: Current Banner o New York
1965: Male, caipital o the Maldives
2005: Space Shuttle Discovery launches frae Cape Canaveral, Florida
- 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
Sandra Bullock
Jacinda Ardern
- 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
Atahualpa
Halidays
Banner o Liberie
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