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Events

• 1847 (179 years ago) Liberia declares its independence from the United States. France and the United Kingdom are the first to recognize the new nation.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Battle of Grand Harbour, British forces on Malta destroy an attack by the Italian Decima Flottiglia MAS. Fort St Elmo Bridge covering the harbour is demolished in the process.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
• 1956 (70 years ago) Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.
• 1963 (63 years ago) The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
• 1963 (63 years ago) An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
• 2009 (17 years ago) 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.
• 2016 (10 years ago) Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.

Births

• 1856 (170 years ago) George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1950)
• 1875 (151 years ago) Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (died 1961)
• 1894 (132 years ago) Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (died 1963)
• 1928 (98 years ago) Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (died 1999)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Helen Mirren, English actress
• 1964 (62 years ago) Sandra Bullock, American actress and producer
• 1975 (51 years ago) Liz Truss, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1980 (46 years ago) Jacinda Ardern, 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand

Deaths

• 1471 (555 years ago) Paul II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1417)
• 1533 (493 years ago) Atahualpa, Inca emperor abducted and murdered by Francisco Pizarro (born ca. 1500)
• 1867 (159 years ago) Otto, king of Greece (born 1815)
• 1925 (101 years ago) Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1848)
• 1952 (74 years ago) Eva Perón, Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (born 1919)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Sung Jae-gi, South Korean philosopher and activist (born 1967)
• 2020 (6 years ago) Olivia de Havilland, American actress (born 1916)
• 2023 (3 years ago) Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer and musician (born 1966)

All 407 events, births and deaths of July 26