Summary of the Day ✨ 26 July (26/07)
Japan experienced a tragic mass stabbing killing 19 people while Hillary Clinton made history as the first female presidential nominee by a major US political party at the Democratic National Convention. In other global events, Solar Impulse 2 completed the first solar-powered aircraft circumnavigation of Earth, while a Moroccan military plane crash killed all 80 passengers and Nigerian violence erupted following a Boko Haram attack on a police station.
Historical Events 📜
- 2016: The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
- 2016: Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
- 2016: Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.
- 2011: A Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes near Guelmim Airport in Guelmim, Morocco. All 80 people on board are killed.
- 2009: The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
- 2008: Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
- 2005: Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
- 2005: Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
- 1999: Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
- 1993: Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people on board are killed.
- 1990: The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
- 1989: A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
- 1977: The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
- 1974: Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country’s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
- 1971: Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo “J-Mission”, and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Famous Births 👶
- 2000: Thomasin McKenzie, New Zealand actress
- 1998: Achraf El Yakhloufi, Belgian politician
- 1996: Olivia Breen, British Paralympic athlete
- 1994: Ella Leivo, Finnish tennis player
- 1993: Raymond Faitala-Mariner, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1993: Taylor Momsen, American singer-songwriter, model, and actress
- 1992: Marika Koroibete, Fijian rugby player
- 1991: Tyson Barrie, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991: Chinami Yoshida, Japanese curler
- 1989: Jeon Yeo-been, South Korean actress
- 1988: Yurie Omi, Japanese announcer and news anchor
- 1988: Sayaka Akimoto, Filipino–Japanese actress and singer
- 1988: Anthony Smith, American Mixed Martial Artist
- 1987: Panagiotis Kone, Greek footballer
- 1987: Jordie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Tom Lehrer, American singer, comedian and mathematician (born 1928)
- 2023: Sinéad O’Connor, Irish singer and musician (born 1966)
- 2021: Joey Jordison, American musician (born 1975)
- 2020: Olivia de Havilland, American actress (born 1916)
- 2019: Russi Taylor, American voice actress (born 1944)
- 2019: Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate (born 1936)
- 2018: Adem Demaçi, Kosovo Albanian politician and writer (born 1936)
- 2018: John Kline, American basketball player (born 1931)
- 2017: June Foray, American voice actress (born 1917)
- 2017: Patti Deutsch, American voice artist and comedic actress (born 1943)
- 2017: Ronald Phillips, American criminal (born 1973)
- 2016: Solomon Feferman, American philosopher and mathematician (born 1928)
- 2015: Bijoy Krishna Handique, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Mines (born 1934)
- 2015: Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (born 1926)
- 2015: Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (born 1922)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
Andrew of Phú Yên - Christian feast day:
Anne (Western Christianity) - Christian feast day:
Bartolomea Capitanio - Christian feast day:
Blessed Maria Pierina - Christian feast day:
Joachim (Western Christianity) - Christian feast day:
Paraskevi of Rome (Eastern Orthodox Church) - Christian feast day:
Venera - Christian feast day:
July 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Emancipation Day (Barbados)
- Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
- Esperanto Day
- Independence Day (Liberia), celebrates the independence of Liberia from the American Colonization Society in 1847.
- Independence Day (Maldives), celebrates the independence of Maldives from the United Kingdom in 1965.
- Kargil Victory Day or Kargil Vijay Diwas (India)