26 July

Notable Births

Thomasin McKenzie

b. 2000

New Zealand actress (born 2000)

Olivia Breen

b. 1996

Welsh Paralympic athlete

Raymond Faitala-Mariner

b. 1993

NZ & Samoa international rugby league footballer

Taylor Momsen

b. 1993

American musician and actress (born 1993)

Marika Koroibete

b. 1992

Australia international rugby union & Fiji international rugby league footballer

Tyson Barrie

b. 1991

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)

Chinami Yoshida

b. 1991

Japanese curler

Jeon Yeo-been

b. 1989

South Korean actress (born 1989)

Sayaka Akimoto

b. 1988

Japanese actress and singer (born 1988)

Panagiotis Kone

b. 1987

Greek footballer (born 1987)

Jordie Benn

b. 1987

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1987)

Fredy Montero

b. 1987

Colombian footballer (born 1987)

Monica Raymund

b. 1986

American actress (born 1986)

Leonardo Ulloa

b. 1986

Argentine footballer

Roderick Strong

b. 1983

American professional wrestler

Christopher Kane

b. 1982

Scottish fashion designer

Chris Harrison

b. 1971

American television personality

Frédéric Diefenthal

b. 1968

French actor and director (born 1968)

Lars Hanson

b. 1886

Swedish film and stage actor

Rajanikanta Sen

b. 1865

Bengali poet and composer (1865–1910)

Notable Deaths

Tom Lehrer

d. 2025

American musician and mathematician (1928–2025)

Sinéad O'Connor

d. 2023

Irish singer (1966–2023)

Joey Jordison

d. 2021

American musician (1975–2021)

Olivia de Havilland

d. 2020

British actress (1916–2020)

Russi Taylor

d. 2019

American voice actress (1944–2019)

Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino

d. 2019

Cuban prelate (1936–2019)

Adem Demaçi

d. 2018

Kosovar politician and human rights defender (1936–2018)

June Foray

d. 2017

American voice actress (1917–2017)

Patti Deutsch

d. 2017

American actress (1943–2017)

Ronald Phillips (murderer)

d. 2017

American executed criminal (1973–2017)

Solomon Feferman

d. 2016

American philosopher and mathematician

Bijoy Krishna Handique

d. 2015

Indian politician (1934–2015)

Flora MacDonald (politician)

d. 2015

Canadian politician (1926–2015)

Leo Reise Jr.

d. 2015

Canadian ice hockey player

Ann Rule

d. 2015

American true crime author (1931–2015)

Oleh Babaiev

d. 2014

Ukrainian politician and businessman (1965–2014)

Eva Perón

d. 1952

Argentine actress and politician (1919–1952)

Fred Duesenberg

d. 1932

American automobile designer (1876–1932)

Gottlob Frege

d. 1925

German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)

Otto of Greece

d. 1867

King of Greece from 1832 to 1862

On This Day in History

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2016

The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.

Sagamihara stabbings

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.

Hillary Clinton

2016

Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.

Solar Impulse

2011

A Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes near Guelmim Airport in Guelmim, Morocco. All 80 people on board are killed.

Royal Moroccan Air Force

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.

Nigeria

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2008

Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.

2008 Ahmedabad bombings

2005

Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

Space Shuttle program

2005

Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.

Mumbai

1999

Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.

Kargil War

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.

Asiana Airlines Flight 733

1990

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

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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.

Grand jury

1977

The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.

Quebec

1974

Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

Prime Minister of Greece

1971

Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.

Apollo program

1968

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

Vietnam War