Friday, July 26, 2013

This will be 207th day of the year and 158 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 19 Av 5773
Chinese calendar — the 19th day of the 6th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

July 26 Birthdays

George Bernard Shaw
1856–1950, Irish playwright and critic.

Serge Koussevitzky
conductor (1874)

Carl Jung
Psychiatrist (1875)

Aldous Huxley
author (1894)

Salvador Allende
president of Chile (1908)

Stanley Kubrick
filmmaker (1928)

Charlotte Beers
advertising executive (1935)

Mick Jagger
musician (1943)

Helen Mirren
actress (1945)

Kevin Spacey
actor, director (1959)

Sandra Bullock
actress (1964)

July 2013

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14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

July 26 in History

1788

New York became the 11th state in the United States.

1847

Liberia became Africa's first republic.

1908

The Office of the Chief Examiner, which in 1935 became the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was created.

1947

President Harry S Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

1952

Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.

1952

King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated after a coup led by Gamal Abdal Nasser.

1953

Fidel Castro was among a group of rebelling anti-Batistas who unsuccessfully attacked an army barracks.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.