📜 This Day in History

July 26

• 1184Approximately 60 local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed in Erfurt, causing them to fall through the ground floor into a latrine cesspit below.
• 1778On the orders of Catherine the Great the first of tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian Christians were removed from Crimea and resettled in Pryazovia.
• 1887L. L. Zamenhof published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.
• 1953The Battle of the Samichon River, the last engagement of the Korean War, ended a few hours before the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
• 1993Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashed into a mountain during a failed attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea, leading to the deaths of 68 people on board.
• 2016Hillary Clinton became the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Born on this day

• 1856George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1950)
• 1875Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (died 1961)
• 1894Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (died 1963)
• 1928Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (died 1999)