Historical timeline for July 26

Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.

The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.

A Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes near Guelmim Airport in Guelmim, Morocco. All 80 people on board are killed.

The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.

Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.

Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.

Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.

Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people on board are killed.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.

A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.

Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.

Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.

Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.