Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 26
July 26: Independence Day in Liberia (1847)
- 1139 - Afonso the Conqueror became the first king of an independent Portugal.
- 1822 - José de San Martín met with Simón Bolívar in Guayaquil to plan for the future of South America.
- 1887 - L. L. Zamenhof published Dr. Esperanto's International Language.
- 1953 - Fidel Castro led an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
- 1963 - Syncom 2 became the world's first geosynchronous satellite.