What happened on 26 july

There have been many significant events that occurred on July 26 throughout history. Here are a few:

  1. 1866 - The United States Congress passes the Pacific Railroad Act, which authorizes the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
  2. 1923 - The first radio broadcast of a baseball game takes place, with the Pittsburgh Pirates playing the Philadelphia Phillies.
  3. 1945 - The United States drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing an estimated 39,000-80,000 people immediately.
  4. 1960 - The United States launches the Explorer 10 spacecraft, which becomes the first spacecraft to study the Earth's magnetosphere.
  5. 1978 - The United States Supreme Court rules in the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, holding that affirmative action programs that use racial quotas are unconstitutional.
  6. 1984 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which bans the production and deployment of intermediate-range missiles.
  7. 1990 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which reduces the number of nuclear weapons held by each country.
  8. 2003 - The United States launches the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which lands on Mars on January 4, 2004.
  9. 2010 - The United States and Russia sign the New START treaty, which reduces the number of nuclear weapons held by each country.

These are just a few of the many significant events that have occurred on July 26 throughout history.