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Events on July 26

• 1184 In the Erfurt latrine collapse, 60 people present, including many nobles, die when they fall through the rotten floor into the latrine below.
• 1882 Richard Wagner's last musical drama, the “Stage Consecration Festival” Parsifal, has its successful world premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Hermann Levi conducts. The set design is by Paul von Joukowsky.
• 1887 Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof first publishes the textbook about his “International Language” in Russian under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto. Further brochures in other languages follow quickly. The pseudonym sticks as the name of the language: Esperanto.
• 1941 The USA and Great Britain impose an oil embargo on Japan in response to its aggression in China and French Indochina. The economic consequences are severe for Japan and contribute to the Japanese Empire's decision to go to war.
• 1953 In Cuba, a guerrilla unit under the leadership of the lawyer Fidel Castro carries out a (failed) attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. This marks the beginning of the Cuban Revolution (see Movement of 26 July).
• 1956 Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal twelve years before the canal company's concession expires. This leads to the Suez Crisis.
• 1957 The Deutsche Bundesbank is established by the Bundesbank Act.
• 1969 The Österreichring is inaugurated with a sports car race in Spielberg in Styria. In the following years, the Austrian Grand Prix is among the events held on the new Formula 1-compatible circuit.
• 1971 Apollo 15 launches from the Kennedy Space Center with astronauts David Randolph Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden bound for the Moon.
• 1978 The Hamburg Regional Court dismisses the sexism lawsuit brought by Alice Schwarzer against the Gruner + Jahr publishing company and Henri Nannen, the editor-in-chief of Stern.
• 1986 The fifth Anti-WAAhnsinn Festival in Burglengenfeld, held in support of the protests against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant, opens. With 100,000 visitors over two days, it becomes the largest rock concert in Germany to date.
• 1994 Hesse is the first German federal state to issue an ozone alert.

Born on July 26

• 1855 Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist, economist and philosopher
• 1865 Philipp Scheidemann, German politician and publicist
• 1900 Karl Berbuer, German schlager singer
• 1911 Lia Wöhr, German actress and television producer
• 1942 Hannelore Elsner, German actress
• 1951 Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician
• 1952 Heiner Brand, German handball player and coach
• 1970 Markus Krebs, German stand-up comedian
• 1973 Kate Beckinsale, British actress
• 1980 Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand politician

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „26. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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