1745: First recorded women’s cricket match at Guildford, England.
1788: New York became the 11th state of the United States.
1847: Liberia declared its independence.
1856: The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, 1856, also Act XV, 1856, enacted on this day, legalized the remarriage of Hindu widows in all jurisdictions of India under East India Company rule.
1953: Fidel Castro’s failed attack on the Moncada Barracks triggered the Cuban Revolution, known as the July 26 Revolution.
1956: Egyptian President Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal after the World Bank refused to finance the construction of the Aswan Dam.
1965: The Maldives gained total independence from the British.
1982: Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan got injured filming a fight scene for the movie “Coolie”
1999: Kargil conflict officially came to an end. The Indian Army announced the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
2008: 21 blasts in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat, India. 56 people were killed and over 200 injured in the accident.
Famous Birthdays – July 26
1856: George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.
1875: Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst.
1893: Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, an Indian vocalist of the Gwalior Gharana.
1904: Malati Devi Choudhury, an Indian civil rights and freedom activist and Gandhian.
1910: B. R. Panthulu, an Indian film director, producer, and actor.
1915: K. Pattabhi Jois, an Indian yoga teacher, and Sanskrit scholar.
1925: Tyeb Mehta, an Indian painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
1926: Pandit Gopal Krishan Sharma, an exponent of Vichitra Veena.
1928: Ibn-e-Safi, a fiction writer, novelist, and poet of Urdu from Pakistan.
1967: Jason Statham, an English actor.
1972: Jugal Hansraj, an Indian actor, model, producer, writer, author, and director.
Death Anniversaries - July 26
1891: Rajendralal Mitra, an Orientalist researcher in Bengal and the first president of the Asiatic Society.
1980: Ibn-e-Safi, a fiction writer, novelist, and poet of Urdu from Pakistan.
2009: Bhaskar Chandavarkar, an Indian sitar player, academic and film and theatre composer.
2011: Madhu Sudan Kanungo, an eminent Indian scientist.
2013: Obaid Siddiqi, the Founder-Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research National Center for Biological Sciences.
1555: The Mughal ruler Humayun reached Delhi after defeating Alexander Suri at Sirhind.
1761: Madhavrao Ballal Bhat became the 9th Peshwa in the Maratha Empire.
1829: William Austin Burtt of America patented the typograph, which later led to the development of typewriters.
1877: First telephone and telegraph line laid in Hawaii.
1881: The International Gymnastics Association established the Confederation of Sports. It is the oldest sports federation in the world.
1903: Motor Company Ford sold its first car.
1927: The first radio broadcast was started by the Radio Club in Mumbai, which was later converted into All India Radio.
Famous Birthdays – July 23
1856: Bal Gangadhar Tilak, an Indian nationalist, teacher, and independence activist.
1898: Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, an Indian novelist.
1906: Chandra Shekhar Azad, an Indian revolutionary.
1936: Shiv Kumar Batalvi, an Indian poet, writer, and playwright.
1947: Mohan Agashe, an Indian psychiatrist and actor.
1973: Himesh Reshammiya, an Indian playback singer, music director, songwriter, producer, and actor.
1975: Sureya, is an Indian actress, producer, and television presenter.
Death Anniversaries - July 23
1993: Lakshman Prasad Dube, an Indian activist.
2004: Mehmood, an Indian actor, singer, director, and producer.
2012: Lakshmi Sahgal, a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement.
2016: S. H. Raza, an Indian painter.
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Historical Events - July 22.
1908: Lokmanya Tilak was sentenced to 6 years in prison for writing an infamous article on the ‘country’s misfortune’.
1931: Vasudev Balwant Gogte Gun fired at Sir John Hotson, the governor of Mumbai province, in the library of Ferguson College. Hotson survived.
1942 :Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto began.
1944: Communist rule began in Poland.
1981: India’s first geostationary satellite APPLE started functioning.
2019: India’s lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 successfully took off from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota aiming to be the fourth nation to soft-land on the moon.
Famous Birthdays – July 22
1898: Pandit Vinayak Patwardhan, an Indian vocalist of Gwalior Gharana of Indian classical music.
1915: Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, a Pakistani politician from Bengal, diplomat, and author.
1923: Mukesh, an Indian playback singer.
1923: Sumitra Devi, an Indian actress.
1925: Daasarathi Krishnamacharya, a Telugu poet, and writer.
1930: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, an Indian American mathematician.
1933: C. V. Sridhar, an Indian screenwriter, and film director.
1959: Ajit Pawar, an Indian politician.
1970: Devendra Fadnavis, an Indian politician. He served as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
1992: Selena Gomez, an American singer, actress, and producer.
Death Anniversaries - July 22
1918: Indra Lal Roy, the sole Indian World War I flying ace.
1937: Kottarathil Sankunni, an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.
