July 26: Day Of The Week
July 26, 2013 is the 207th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 158 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.
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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
| July | ||||||
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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |||
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
July 26 Historical Events
- 920 –Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
- 1533 –Atahualpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro’s Spanish conquistadors. His death marks the end of 300 years of Inca civilization.
- 1745 –The first recorded women’s cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
- 1775 –The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Morgan’s Raid ends – At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
- 1897 –Anglo-Afghan wars: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
- 1908 –United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
- 1944 –World War II: the Soviet army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
- 1945 –The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
- 1953 –Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
Who were born on July 26?
- 1802 –Mariano Arista, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855)
- 1895 –Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
- 1908 –Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgish sculptor (d. 2002)
- 1926 –James Best, American actor
- 1939 –Jun Henmi, Japanese writer and poet
- 1942 –Vladimír Mečiar, Slovakian politician, 1st and 3rd Prime Minister of Slovakia
- 1964 –Sandra Bullock, American actress
- 1973 –Vaniity, Mexican transsexual pornographic actress
- 1979 –Friedrich Michau, German rugby player
- 1993 –Elizabeth Gillies, American actress
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