What happend on 26th July

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27.07
1963

Earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia

1958

Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.

1956

Following the World Bank's decline to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.

1953

Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders a law enforcement crackdown on Short Creek, Arizona, home to a polygamous sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

1953

Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.

1948

André Marie becomes Prime Minister of France

1948

U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.

1947

Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.

1945

The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.

1945

The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom General Election, removing Winston Churchill from power.