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26 July| 26 July 811 | Byzantine Empire, Bulgarian Empire [wars] | The Byzantine emperor, Nicephorus I, is killed when his army is ambushed in a mountain pass by the Bulgars. The Bulgar khan, Krum, has Nicephorus's skull lined with silver for use as a drinking cup. | | 26 July 1533 | Spain, Inca Empire [wars] | The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro executes his prisoner of eight months, Atahualpa, the Inca emperor, at Cajamarca (in modern Ecuador), despite having accepted a large ransom for his release. He then arranges to have the emperor's treacherous brother Tupac Hualpa crowned emperor, in the mistaken hope of retaining the support of Atahualpa's followers. | | 26 July 1856 | Ireland [births and deaths] | George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, born in Dublin, Ireland (–1950). | | 26 July 1875 | Switzerland [births and deaths] | Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist who founds analytic psychology, born in Kesswil, Switzerland (–1961). | | 26 July 1886 | UK [elections] | Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, forms a Conservative government following their electoral victory. | | 26 July 1931 | Chile [political events] | Colonel Carlos Ibáñez del Campo resigns as president of Chile owing to popular opposition to his repressive regime and the failure of his economic policies in the face of the worldwide depression, and flees to exile in Argentina. | | 26 July 1945 | UK [elections] | Labour wins a landslide victory in the British general election, with 393 seats against the Conservatives' 199. Clement Attlee becomes prime minister, Ernest Bevin foreign secretary, and Hugh Dalton chancellor of the Exchequer. | | 26 July 1952 | Argentina [births and deaths] | Eva Perón, unofficial Argentine political leader and wife of Juan Perón, dies in Buenos Aires, Argentina (33). | | 26 July 1956 | France, Egypt, UK, USA [diplomacy] | The Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser announces the nationalization of the Suez Canal (owned partly by France and Britain) after the USA and Britain announce they will not help fund the Aswan Dam project. On 31 July Britain, France, and the USA retaliate with financial measures. | | 26 July 1965 | UK [telephone services] | The British General Post Office announce that telephone numbers are to lose their letters and will consist of numerals only, to facilitate direct-dial international calls. |
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