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| and the Maldives (1965) | refimprove sections |
| 811 – Bulgarian forces led by Khan Krum defeated the Byzantines at the Battle of Pliska, annihilating almost the whole army and killing Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I. | refimprove section |
| 1509 – Krishnadevaraya, who would become the most powerful of all the Hindu rulers of India, ascended to the throne of the Vijayanagara Empire. | unreferenced section |
| 1581 – Dutch Revolt: Representatives of the States General of the Netherlands signed the Act of Abjuration, declaring the independence of the Dutch Republic from the Spanish Empire. | about half is unreferenced, including the date |
| 1533 – During the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, conquistador Francisco Pizarro executed the last independent emperor, Atahualpa, in Cajamarca. | refimprove section |
| 1822 – In Guayaquil, José de San Martín met with Simón Bolívar to plan for the future of Peru and South America in general. | needs more footnotes |
| 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces captured Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers in northeastern Ohio, ending Morgan's Raid. | needs more footnotes |
| 1882 – Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal, loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic poem Parzival about Arthurian knight Percival and his quest for the Holy Grail, officially premiered at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Bavaria (present-day Germany). | refimprove section |
| 1908 – Unable to use U.S. Secret Service agents as investigators, Attorney General Charles Bonaparte established what is now the Federal Bureau of Investigation as his own staff of special agents. | unreferenced section; summary section |
| 1918 – Emmy Noether introduced what became known as Noether's theorem, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy, at Göttingen, Germany. | refimprove section |
| 1945 – The Labour Party won the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, replacing Winston Churchill as Prime Minister with Clement Attlee. | unreferenced section |
| 1953 – Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl led a group of approximately 135 rebels in an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. | primary sources |
| 1957 – Luis Arturo González López briefly becomes President of Guatemala after the assassination of Carlos Castillo Armas. | short |
| 1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, was launched by NASA on a Delta B rocket from Cape Canaveral. | needs more footnotes |
| 1990 – U.S. president George H. W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. | outdated |
| 1999 – Fighting in the Kargil War ended after Indian troops cleared the town of Drass, Kashmir, of Pakistani forces. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – One day after similar bombings in Bangalore, 21 bombs exploded in Ahmedabad, India, killing 56 people and injuring over 200 others. | {{prose}} |
| 2009 – The militant Islamist group Boko Haram launched an attack on a Nigeria Police Force station, sparking violence across several states in northeastern Nigeria, leaving more than 1,000 people dead. | lead too long |
| Helen Mirren |b|1945 | refimprove section (filmography) |
| Li Hanzhi |d|899 | date not verifiable as no instructions provided in how to use the cite |
Eligible
- 1759 – French and Indian War: Rather than defend Fort Carillon, near present-day Ticonderoga, New York, from approaching British forces, French brigadier general François-Charles de Bourlamaque withdrew his troops and attempted to blow up the fort.
- 1887 – L. L. Zamenhof (pictured) published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.
- 1936 – The Canadian National Vimy Memorial (unveiling pictured), dedicated to the Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed in the First World War, was unveiled in Pas-de-Calais, France.
- 1953 – The Battle of the Samichon River, the last engagement of the Korean War, ended only a few hours before the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed.
- 1968 – After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South Vietnamese military court for illicit currency transactions.
- 2007 – After widespread controversy throughout Wales, Shambo, a black Friesian bull that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, was slaughtered due to concerns about bovine tuberculosis.
- 2016 – A former employee carried out a mass stabbing at a care home for disabled people in Sagamihara, Japan, killing 19 people and wounding 26 others.
- Born/died this day: | Justin Holland |b|1819|George Bernard Shaw |b|1856| Carl Jung |b|1875|Daniel J. Callaghan |b|1890| Charlotte Serber |b|1911| Hoyt Wilhelm |b|1922| Ana María Matute |b|1925| Robert Todd Lincoln |d|1926| Howard Vernon |d|1921|Stanley Kubrick |b|1928|Mick Jagger |b|1943 |Asif Ali Zardari |b|1955 Sandra Bullock |b|1964| Kate Beckinsale |b|1973 |Liz Truss |b|1975 | Jacinda Ardern |b|1980| George W. Romney |d|1995
Notes
- Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy appears on July 12, so Short Creek raid should not appear in the same year
July 26: Independence Day in Liberia (1847)
Flag of Stellaland
- 1778 – On the orders of Catherine the Great the first of tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian Christians were removed from Crimea and resettled in Pryazovia.
- 1882 – Boer mercenaries established the Republic of Stellaland (later flag pictured) in land claimed by the United Kingdom as part of British Bechuanaland.
- 1953 – In Short Creek, Arizona, police conducted a mass arrest of approximately 400 Mormon fundamentalists for polygamy.
- 1993 – Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashed into a mountain during a failed attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea, leading to the deaths of 68 of the people on board.
- 2012 – The New Irish Republican Army was formed from a merger of a number of dissident republican militant groups.
- Armand de Gontaut (d. 1592)
- Bloeme Evers-Emden (b. 1926)
- Ancelma Perlacios (b. 1964)
- Tetsuji Takechi (d. 1988)