What happend on 26th July

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27.07
2005

Mumbai (f.k.a. Bombay)

2005

Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission ( STS-114 )after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

1991

Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Megadrive in Japan.

1991

Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, is arrested for allegedly exposing himself at a Sarasota, Florida adult theatre.

1989

A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

1971

Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15.

1968

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh 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.

1966

Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.

1963

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.

1963

Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.