What are the important events that happened on July 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 26: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 26 is the 207^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 158 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 13, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 487,080 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptagon’ day.

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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 206 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,600 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 26 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1822 –
  José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
• 1882 –
  Premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
• 1890 –
  In Buenos Aires the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Juárez Celman’s resignation.
• 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.
• 1914 –
  Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
• 1945 –
  The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
• 1948 –
  U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
• 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.
• 1963 –
  An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in the Republic of Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.

Who were born on July 26?

• 1922 –
  Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1929 –
  Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist
• 1931 –
  Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast
• 1941 –
  Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter
• 1942 –
  Vladimír Mečiar, Slovakian politician, 1st and 3rd Prime Minister of Slovakia
• 1949 –
  Roger Taylor, English drummer and vocalist (Queen)
• 1951 –
  Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954 –
  Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994)
• 1957 –
  Nana Visitor, American actress
• 1976 –
  Tanja Szewczenko, German figure skater

Who died on July 26?

• 1680 –
  John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
• 1863 –
  Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)
• 1930 –
  Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian (b. 1849)
• 1934 –
  Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
• 1992 –
  Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1993 –
  Matthew Ridgway, American army general (b. 1895)
• 1994 –
  Christy Henrich, American gymnast (b. 1972)
• 1999 –
  Phaedon Gizikis, Greek Army officer, president of Greece during the military junta (b. 1917)
• 2004 –
  William A. Mitchell, American food chemist (b. 1911)
• 2010 –
  Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (b. 1945)