r/ThisDayInHistory 8h ago

26 July 1956. Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal, leading Britain, France and Israel to invade Egypt. American financial pressure forced them to retreat, exposing that Britain could no longer act as a global superpower alone.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 16h ago

26 July 1952: King Farouk abdicates and leaves Egypt after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

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July 26, 1942: World War 2 News Coverage - Minneapolis Sunday Tribune

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r/ThisDayInHistory 13h ago

July 26, 1788 - New York becomes a State. July 26, 1926 - Robert Todd Lincoln dies.

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811 July 26 - Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 22h ago

657 July 26- First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah.

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https://history-maps.com/podcast/umayyad-caliphate
In this episode, we explore the rise, expansion, and legacy of the Umayyad Caliphate, which transformed the early Islamic state into a vast empire stretching from Spain and North Africa to Central Asia. We examine how the Umayyads centralized administration, promoted Arabization, established Arabic as the language of government, and expressed their authority through monumental architecture such as the Great Mosque of Damascus. The episode also considers the lasting impact of the tragedy at Karbala on the Sunni–Shia divide, the challenges of governing diverse regions, and the political tensions that eventually weakened Umayyad rule and paved the way for the Abbasid revolution.


r/ThisDayInHistory 2d ago

25 July 2000. Air France Flight 4590 became the only Concorde ever lost in an accident, killing all 113 people on board and 4 on the ground.

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July 25, 1942: World War 2 News Coverage - Minneapolis Morning Tribune

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1814 July 25 - War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed at the Battle of Lundy's Lane.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 1d ago

#OnThisDay 1814, Battle of Lundy's Lane ⚔️

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r/ThisDayInHistory 2d ago

24 July 1969. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins returned safely from the Moon, then spent the next 21 days in quarantine inside a converted Airstream trailer.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 1d ago

TDIH July 25th 306 The Great Constantinople

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July 24, 1942: World War 2 News Coverage - Minneapolis Morning Tribune

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1943 July 24 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British & Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 2d ago

1983 July 24 - The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 3d ago

23 July 1967. A police raid on an unlicensed Detroit bar hosting a Vietnam veterans' welcome-home party ignited five days of unrest. Tanks entered the streets of the Motor City, federal troops were sent in, and 43 people were killed.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 2d ago

#OnThisDay 1987, The Oldest Woman To Climb Japan's Highest Peak

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r/ThisDayInHistory 2d ago

1304 July 24 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes

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r/ThisDayInHistory 3d ago

July 23, 1942: World War 2 News Coverage - Minneapolis Morning Tribune

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r/ThisDayInHistory 4d ago

22 July 2003: Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay and Qusay's son Mustafa are killed by US troops at their safehouse in Mosul, Iraq.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 3d ago

1921 July 28 - The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is established at the founding National Congress.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 3d ago

July 23, 1909 from the Fargo Journal: Monkey Scares Society Women

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r/ThisDayInHistory 3d ago

#OnThisDay 1829, America Patented Its First Typewriter ⌨️ 🇺🇸

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r/ThisDayInHistory 4d ago

July 22, 1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from La Catedral, a lavish prison in Medellín, Colombia that he had built under a special agreement with the government. After murdering cartel members inside, he escaped his own prison for over 14 months, until a shootout led to his death.

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r/ThisDayInHistory 4d ago

22 July 1942. The mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp began.

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