Today in History - Post things that happened in the past on the given day

[Anti Snigger]

ITT: We post interesting historical facts about the given day of the year, and discuss them. Please try to choose things ~20 years or more in the past, to avoid newsposting, but ultimately nobody is going to stop you.

July 26

Today, in 1956, the Suez Canal was seized by the Egyptian government from the British, creating an international incident, and in the minds of some, solidifying the decline of the British Empire.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

In 1928 Stanley Kubrick was born and in 1951 Alice in wonderland premiered. In 1984 famous carpenter and tailor Ed Gein died.

In 1945 the  uss Indianapolis delivered the enriched uranium and other components for the Little Boy nuke to Tinain naval base where the Enola Gay bomber would later take off from to nuke Hiroshima on August 6th

 

[Irregardless]

Today I fucked OP's mom.

20 years or more in the past

What year though?

 

[Pissmaster]

The most interesting game to release on July 26th was probably Rockman World, the Japanese (and first released) version of Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge.


July 26th is not a very interesting day.

 

[We Are The Witches]

It has to be for today?

Ernst Heinrich Hoppenberg, a german swimmer and water polo player was born, on the fateful year of 1878.

 

[Anti Snigger]

What year though?

I'm just aping the /his/ rule, which is 25

 

[Bagronkleton]

July 26, 1908. The fbi was founded, a tragic mistake that lingers to this day.

 

[Dire Dire Cocks]

Today in Christory, in 2006, Chris makes his first My Little Pony purchase.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

I'm just aping the /his/ rule, which is 25

Perhaps obscure events that happened in the last 25 years can be exceptions? For instance, international events that didn't get a lot of news coverage from mainstream western outlets.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Apparently George McClellan took command of the Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War. A big deal, McClellan turned that army into a highly professional and exceptionally well-equipped force after the disastrous performance at Bull Run. Probably the finest field army in the world at that time other than the Army of Northern Virginia.

Although his record as a general in the field was mixed, his victory at Antietam was arguably the turning point of the Civil War because it gave Lincoln the capital to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. That in turn effectively neutered any possibility of British or French intervention in the war.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Today is the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.

 

[Jason Wynn]

July 26, 1956: The Italian passenger liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Stockholm off the coast of Nantucket, killing 51 people

 

[Pissmaster]

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Earthbound series. Mother came out on 7/27/1989.

also Dr. Mario came out on the same day the very next year

 

[Bagronkleton]

On this day, July 28 1914, Austria effectively kicked off WW1 by declaring war on Serbia after Ferdinand got whacked.

 

[glue eater]

Birthday of everyone's favorite spaghetti muncher. It's fucking Mussolini Monday!