Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. Date: July 26, 2005 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 26 📅 Events on this day in 2005 📅 On This Day (Today)
Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India. Date: July 26, 2008 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 26 📅 Events on this day in 2008 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: July 26, 2009 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 26 📅 Events on this day in 2009 📅 On This Day…
A Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes near Guelmim Airport in Guelmim, Morocco. All 80 people on board are killed. Date: July 26, 2011 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 26 📅 Events on this day in 2011 📅 On This Day (Today)
Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth. Date: July 26, 2016 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 26 📅 Events on this day in 2016 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: July 26, 2016 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 26 📅 Events on this day in 2016 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed. Date: July 26, 2016 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 26 📅 Events on this day in 2016 📅 On This Day (Today)
Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. Date: July 25, 1908 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 25 📅 Events on this day in 1908 📅 On This…
Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes. Date: July 25, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 25 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today)
RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross. Date: July 25, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 25 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This Day (Today)