From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
Day of death July 26, 1942
The temperature on July 26, 1942 was between 11.3 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 19 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
March 28 » World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.
April 8 » World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
April 26 » Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
September 5 » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
November 12 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.
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