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Canadian National Vimy Memorial
King Edward VIII unveiling the statue Canada Bereft on the Vimy Memorial
Syncom 2
Clement Attlee
Seal of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
1882 premiere of Parsifal
Moncada Barracks
Emmy Noether
L. L. Zamenhof
Flag of Stellaland

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Blurb	Reason
811 – Bulgarian forces led by Khan Krum defeated the Byzantines at the Battle of Pliska, annihilating almost the whole army and killing Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I.	refimprove section
1509 – Krishnadevaraya, who would become the most powerful of all the Hindu rulers of India, ascended to the throne of the Vijayanagara Empire.	unreferenced section
1581 – Dutch Revolt: Representatives of the States General of the Netherlands signed the Act of Abjuration, declaring the independence of the Dutch Republic from the Spanish Empire.	about half is unreferenced, including the date
1533 – During the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, conquistador Francisco Pizarro executed the last independent emperor, Atahualpa, in Cajamarca.	refimprove section
1822 – In Guayaquil, José de San Martín met with Simón Bolívar to plan for the future of Peru and South America in general.	needs more footnotes
1863 – American Civil War: Union forces captured Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers in northeastern Ohio, ending Morgan's Raid.	needs more footnotes
1882 – Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal, loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic poem Parzival about Arthurian knight Percival and his quest for the Holy Grail, officially premiered at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Bavaria (present-day Germany).	refimprove section
1908 – Unable to use U.S. Secret Service agents as investigators, Attorney General Charles Bonaparte established what is now the Federal Bureau of Investigation as his own staff of special agents.	unreferenced section; summary section
1918 – Emmy Noether introduced what became known as Noether's theorem, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy, at Göttingen, Germany.	refimprove section
1945 – The Labour Party won the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, replacing Winston Churchill as Prime Minister with Clement Attlee.	unreferenced section
1953 – Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl led a group of approximately 135 rebels in an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.	primary sources
1957 – Luis Arturo González López briefly becomes President of Guatemala after the assassination of Carlos Castillo Armas.	short
1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, was launched by NASA on a Delta B rocket from Cape Canaveral.	needs more footnotes
1990 – U.S. president George H. W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability.	outdated
1999 – Fighting in the Kargil War ended after Indian troops cleared the town of Drass, Kashmir, of Pakistani forces.	refimprove section
2008 – One day after similar bombings in Bangalore, 21 bombs exploded in Ahmedabad, India, killing 56 people and injuring over 200 others.	{{prose}}
2009 – The militant Islamist group Boko Haram launched an attack on a Nigeria Police Force station, sparking violence across several states in northeastern Nigeria, leaving more than 1,000 people dead.	lead too long
Li Hanzhi \|d\|899	date not verifiable as no instructions provided in how to use the cite
John Howard\|b\|1939\|	birthday not cited
Helen Mirren\|b\|1945	refimprove section (filmography)
Eva Perón\|d\|1952	refimprove section (#Honours) from Special:Diff/864346238
Sayaka Akimoto\|b\|1988\|	birthday not cited

Eligible

1759 – French and Indian War: Troops led by French brigadier general François-Charles de Bourlamaque attempted to blow up Fort Carillon, near present-day Ticonderoga, New York, rather than defending it against approaching British forces.
1882 – Boer mercenaries established the Republic of Stellaland (later flag pictured) in land claimed by the United Kingdom as part of British Bechuanaland.
1887 – L. L. Zamenhof (pictured) published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.
1936 – The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, dedicated to Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed in the First World War, was unveiled in Pas-de-Calais, France.
1953 – The Battle of the Samichon River, the last engagement of the Korean War, ended a few hours before the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
1968 – After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South Vietnamese military court for illicit currency transactions.
2007 – After widespread controversy throughout Wales, Shambo, a black Friesian bull that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, was slaughtered due to concerns about bovine tuberculosis.
2012 – The New Irish Republican Army was formed from a merger of a number of dissident republican militant groups.
Born/died this day: | Armand de Gontaut|d|1592| Justin Holland|b|1819| George Bernard Shaw|b|1856| Daniel J. Callaghan |b|1890| Charlotte Serber |b|1911| Hoyt Wilhelm|b|1922| Bloeme Evers-Emden|b|1926| Robert Todd Lincoln|d|1926| Howard Vernon |d|1921|Stanley Kubrick |b|1928| Winsor McCay|d|1934| Mick Jagger|b|1943| Betty Davis|b|1944| Asif Ali Zardari|b|1955| Sandra Bullock|b|1964| Ancelma Perlacios|b|1964| Kate Beckinsale|b|1973| Liz Truss|b|1975| Jacinda Ardern|b|1980| Ed Gein|d|1984| Tetsuji Takechi|d|1988|

Notes

Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy appears on July 12, so Short Creek raid should not appear in the same year

July 26: Independence Day in the Maldives (1965), Kargil Vijay Diwas in India

Hillary Clinton

1551 – The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Castello of Gozo to the Ottoman Empire following a brief siege, leading to the mass enslavement and dispersal of the Gozitan population.
1778 – On the orders of Catherine the Great the first of tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian Christians were removed from Crimea and resettled in Pryazovia.
1953 – In Short Creek, Arizona, police conducted a mass arrest of approximately 400 Mormon fundamentalists for polygamy.
1993 – Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashed into a mountain during a failed attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea, leading to the deaths of 68 people on board.
2016 – Hillary Clinton (pictured) became the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Carl Jung (b. 1875)
Ana María Matute (b. 1925)
George W. Romney (d. 1995)
Olivia de Havilland (d. 2020)

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