July 26: Independence Day in Liberia (1847)
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Moncada Barracks
- 1533 – : Conquistador Francisco Pizarro executed the last independent Inca Emperor Atahualpa in Cajamarca during the Spanish conquest of the Empire.
- 1759 – French and Indian War: Rather than defend Fort Carillon near present-day Ticonderoga, New York, from an approaching 11,000-man British force, French Brigadier General François-Charles de Bourlamaque withdrew his troops and attempted to blow up the fort.
- 1908 – Unable to use U.S. Secret Service agents as investigators, Attorney General Charles Bonaparte established what is now the Federal Bureau of Investigation as his own staff of special agents.
- 1953 – Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl led a group of approximately 135 rebels in an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks (pictured), thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
- 2007 – After widespread controversy throughout Wales, Shambo, a black Friesian bull that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, was slaughtered due to concerns about bovine tuberculosis.
George Bernard Shaw (b. 1856) · Carl Jung (b. 1875) · Robert Todd Lincoln (d. 1926)
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