1377 – First example of quarantine in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik); city council passes a law stating newcomers from plague areas must isolate for 30 days (later 40 days, quaranta in Italian)
1816 – US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1897 – Dutch government of Pierson and Goeman Borgesius resigns
1927 – Mel Ott, 18, hits his first league home run (inside the park)
1988 – Baseball star Tommy John commits a record three errors on one play as the Yankees rout the Brewers 16-3
1992 – Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
2003 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, Turnberry: American Tom Watson wins in a playoff against Carl Mason of England
2021 – Triathlete Flora Duffy wins first Olympic gold medal for Bermuda in the women’s event at the Tokyo Games
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 26th July 2026
1760 – Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz during Third Silesian War
1858 – Baron Lionel de Rothschild becomes the first Jewish person to be elected to the British Parliament
1882 – Richard Wagner’s opera “Parsifal” premieres in Bayreuth, Germany
1917 – J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice
1941 – US embargo on oil export to Japan
1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
1954 – WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
2019 – Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning records a T20 International world record individual score of 133 off 63 balls in a 93-run win against England at Chelmsford; Southern Stars clinch Women’s Ashes
Historical Events for 25th July 2026
1901 – Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain about the concentration camps during the South African War
1913 – Pittsburgh Pirates future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Max Carey scores five runs without a hit, reaching first base on an error and four walks as the Bucs defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 12-2
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans sale of benzine and gasoline to Japan
1956 – 46 die in a collision between the SS Andrea Doria and the MS Stockholm off the coast of Nantucket
1985 – Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS
1993 – Tour de France: Spaniard Miguel Induráin makes it three straight Tour titles; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov is points winner
1993 – Romantic comedy film “Sleepless in Seattle,” starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and co-written and directed by Nora Ephron, is released
2017 – Ram Nath Kovind becomes 14th President of India
Historical Events for 24th July 2026
1902 – In Turkey, the Sultan Abdul-Hamid, under pressure from within the Ottoman Empire, appoints a commission to consider reforms that might pacify Macedonian revolutionaries
1908 – American Johnny Hayes wins the London Olympic marathon in a Games record time of 2:55:18.4 after Dorando Pietri of Italy is disqualified for receiving assistance before the finish line
1946 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Atoll
1952 – US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1959 – 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1967 – Race riots in Cambridge, Maryland
2017 – Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoes two laws to put Polish courts under political control
2023 – Wildfires across Algeria kill at least 34 people amid temperatures of 48°C (118°F)
Historical Events for 23rd July 2026
1794 – Alexandre de Beauharnais, the first husband of Joséphine de Beauharnais, is executed for treason during the Reign of Terror
1877 – First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed
1925 – NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his first of 23 career grand slams
1934 – Australian cricket batting legend Don Bradman completes 304 in drawn 4th Test vs England at Leeds; 430 minutes, 43 x fours, 2 x sixes
1948 – Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for US President
1958 – First four women named to peerage in House of Lords (UK)
1969 – 40th MLB All-Star Game, RFK Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C.: NL defeats AL, 9-3; MVP: Willie McCovey, SF Giants, 1B
1975 – LA Dodgers W. Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
Historical Events for 22nd July 2026
1901 – Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1944 – Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1962 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Aronimink GC: Gary Player of South Africa wins by 1 stroke from Bob Goalby
1969 – Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s choice of Prince Juan Carlos as his successor is ratified by the Spanish Parliament
1992 – Soyuz TM-15 launches
1997 – “One Piece,” world’s best-selling manga and comic series, written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, first appears serialized in “Weekly Shōnen Jump” in Japan
2003 – Members of US 101st Airborne, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Mosul, Iraq, killing Uday Hussein and Qusay Hussein, sons of Saddam Hussein, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year old son, and a bodyguard
Historical Events for 21st July 2026
1930 – US Veterans Administration forms
1948 – WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1972 – In New York 57 murders occur in 24 hours
1980 – Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
1983 – World’s lowest-ever natural temperature is recorded: -89.2°C (-128.6°F; 184.0 K) at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica, surpassing record at same location set in 1960
1995 – Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians vs. Kent
1995 – KC Royals set club record of 22 singles in 15 innings
2024 – Copa America: Argentina defeats Columba 1-0 to win record 16th title in a delayed match in Miami
Historical Events for 20th July 2026
1773 – Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1864 – Battle at Stephenson’s Depot, Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1890 – Snow and hail in Calais, Maine
1944 – British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
1953 – USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations
1973 – MLB Chicago White Sox pitcher Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader against the New York Yankees, 12-2 and 7-0
1975 – Murray Schisgal’s stage comedy “All Over Town”, directed by Dustin Hoffman, closes at the Boothe Theatre, NYC, after 233 performances
1975 – India expels three correspondents for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek after they refuse to sign a pledge to comply with government censorship
Historical Events for 19th July 2026
1870 – France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1884 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Maud Watson becomes inaugural female champion by beating her sister Lillian Watson 6–8, 6–3, 6–3
1908 – Dutch football club Feyenoord is established in Rotterdam as Wilhelmina; reverts to SC Feijenoord 1912; updated to SC Feyenoord 1974 and to Feyenoord Rotterdam 1978
1951 – “2 in the Aisle” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 performances
1967 – First air-conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1977 – 48th MLB All-Star Game, Yankee Stadium, NYC, NY: NL wins, 7-5; MVP: Don Sutton, LA Dodgers, P
1979 – Patricia Harris becomes sect of HEW
1992 – “Price” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
Historical Events for 18th July 2026
1743 – First half-page newspaper ad is published, in the NY Weekly Journal
1915 – WWI: Second Battle of Isonzo begins with Kingdom of Italy offensive against Austria-Hungary, ends 2-1/2 weeks later with over 91,000 combined casualties
1935 – Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
1965 – Zond 3 launches to fly by the Moon and enters solar orbit
1970 – WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1995 – “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir by Barack Obama, is published by Times Books
2014 – The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) call 18,000 additional reserves soldiers in campaign against Gaza
2018 – Lava from Kilauea volcano eruption has now destroyed 700 homes and added 700 acres to Big Island confirms Hawaii National Guard