What happend on 26th July

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27.07
1941

World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

1936

The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War

1908

United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

1887

L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language".

1878

In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.

1863

American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends

1861

American Civil War: George McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.

1847

Liberia gains independence.

1822

Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín meet in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

1803

the Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.