* Astronomy

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RE: July 26th

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Thomas Harriot was the first person to make a drawing of the Moon through a telescope, on 26 July 1609
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t24014826/thomas-harriot-moon-maps/

On 26 July 2012, the H.E.S.S. II telescope started operation in Namibia.
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/pages/press/2012/HESS_II_first_light/

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Operation Most III to gather intelligence on the V-2 rocket was carried out on the night 25/26 July 1944.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Most_III

EXPLORER 4 was launched by a Jupiter-C rocket on the 26th July 1958
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t37259737/explorer-4-satellite/

The first television broadcast from a balloon in the stratosphere was made on July 26/27, 1958.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Ross_(balloonist)#Balloon_flights

The Thor missile carrying the Bluegill nuclear device malfunctioned at launch on the 25th July 1962
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fishbowl#Bluegill_Prime

Syncom 2 the first geosynchronous communication satellite was launched on July 26, 1963
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t37259631/syncom-2-satellite/

Apollo 15 was launched on the 26 July 1971
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t37259684/apollo-15/

STS-114 Space Shuttle Discovery launched at 10:39 EDT (14:39 UTC), July 26, 2005.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3523241/shuttle-launch/

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Rimantas Antanas Stankevicius (July 26, 1944 - September 9, 1990) was a Lithuanian cosmonaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimantas_Antanas-Antonovich_Stankiavicius

William McMichael Shepherd (born July 26, 1949) is a former American astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shepherd

William Surles McArthur, Jr. (born 26 July 1951) is a retired United States Army Colonel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._McArthur

Neil W. Woodward III (born July 26, 1962) is an American Naval officer and a former NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Woodward

Dr Sheikh Muszaphar (born on 27 July 1972) is a Malaysian orthopaedic surgeon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Muszaphar_Shukor

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 - 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

Lenka Kotková (née arounová; born 26 July 1973) is a Czech astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenka_Kotkov%C3%A1

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

"Shambo" (c.2001 - 26 July 2007) was a black Friesian bull
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambo

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The premiere of the opera Parsifal (WWV 111) was given at Bayreuth on 26 July 1882
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsifal#The_premiere

The film Alice in Wonderland was released in New York City and London on July 26, 1951.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43721755/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/

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NGC 6081 was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan on the 26th July 1870.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58162603/ngc-6081/

NGC 6212 was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan on the 26th July 1870.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58162592/ngc-6212/

NGC 6966 was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on the 26th July 1865.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58162584/ngc-6966/

NGC 7300 was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on the 26th July 1830.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58162575/ngc-7300/

NGC 7330 was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan on the 26th July 1870.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58162565/ngc-7330/

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Nova 1783 Sagittae appeared in 1783 in the constellation Sagitta.
http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/n1783Sge.html

On July 26, 2010 researchers announced the discovery of two planets around 24 Sextantis
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t37577908/24-sextanis/

S/2009 S 1 a 'propeller moonlet' of Saturn was discovered by the Cassini Imaging Team on July 26, 2009.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t32179694/s2009-s-1/

On 26 July 2006, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a rare (every 42 years) transit made by Ariel on Uranus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_(moon)#Transits

Asteroid (568) Cheruskia was discovered by German astronomer Paul Götz on July 26, 1905 from Heidelberg
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t33513658/asteroid-568-cheruskia/

Daylight Train of a Detonating Meteor. Seen from the Lick Observatory, 7:30 p.m., July 26, 1896, visible for one half hour
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0CEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA197#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Meteorites

The Ramsdorf (L6 chondrite) meteorite fell in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, on the 26th July 1958.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44093516/ramsdorf-meteorite/