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This is a list of selected July 26 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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Independence Day in Liberia (1847) and the Maldives (1965) Liberia: lead too long; Maldives: 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
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
1863American 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
1882Richard 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). unreferenced 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
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. refimprove
1957Luis Arturo González López briefly becomes President of Guatemala after the assassination of Carlos Castillo Armas. short
1963Syncom 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. multiple issues
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}}

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July 26

King Edward VIII unveiling a figure personifying Canada on the Vimy Memorial
King Edward VIII unveiling the figure Canada Bereft on the Vimy Memorial

Justin Holland (b. 1819) · Carl Jung (b. 1875) · Sandra Bullock (b. 1964)

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