| 84421 | July 26 | Event | 1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War. |
| 84422 | July 26 | Event | 1941 – World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. |
| 84423 | July 26 | Event | 1944 – World War II: The Soviet 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. |
| 84424 | July 26 | Event | 1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. |
| 84425 | July 26 | Event | 1945 – The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. |
| 84426 | July 26 | Event | 1945 – HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War |
| 84427 | July 26 | Event | 1945 – The United States Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. |
| 84428 | July 26 | Event | 1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport |
| 84429 | July 26 | Event | 1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United St |
| 84430 | July 26 | Event | 1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States. |
| 84431 | July 26 | Event | 1951 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom. |
| 84432 | July 26 | Event | 1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad. |
| 84433 | July 26 | Event | 1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement |
| 84434 | July 26 | Event | 1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid. |
| 84435 | July 26 | Event | 1953 – Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean W |
| 84436 | July 26 | Event | 1956 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation. |
| 84437 | July 26 | Event | 1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated. |
| 84438 | July 26 | Event | 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. |
| 84439 | July 26 | Event | 1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster. |
| 84440 | July 26 | Event | 1963 – An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead. |
| 84441 | July 26 | Event | 1963 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan. |
| 84442 | July 26 | Event | 1965 – Full independence is granted to the Maldives. |
| 84443 | July 26 | Event | 1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war. |
| 84444 | July 26 | Event | 1971 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle. |
| 84445 | July 26 | Event | 1971 – Nicolette Milnes-Walker completes sailing non-stop single-handedly across the Atlantic, becoming the first woman to successfully do so. |
| 84446 | July 26 | Event | 1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule. |
| 84447 | July 26 | Event | 1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government. |
| 84448 | July 26 | Event | 1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. |
| 84449 | July 26 | Event | 1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George Bush. |
| 84450 | July 26 | Event | 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. |