On This Day In ...
...Arctic Exploration and Discovery
- Jul 26 1845:
Last sighting of the Franklin expedition by Europeans. Captain Dannett
of the whaler Prince of Wales recounts that he saw them in
Melville Bay, off the west coast of Greenland.
- Jul 26 1881:
George Borrow, novelist and travel writer, died in Oulton, Suffolk,
England, at the age of 78.
- Jul 26 1894:
Aldous Huxley, novelist perhaps best known for Brave New
World, born in Godalming, Surrey, England.
- Jul 26 1944:
The Neuvic train robbery (a real historical event) takes place in the Dordogne region
of France, the event that underlies the plot in
Martin Walker's 6th Bruno, Chief of Police mystery, The Resistance Man.
- Jul 26 1874:
Serge Koussevitzky, conductor best known for his association with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, born in Vyshny Volochyok, Russia.
- Jul 26 1958:
Pianist Angela Hewitt born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Jul 26 1958:
Birth of Angela Hewitt, classical pianist, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Jul 26 1968:
Release of the Moody Blues' album In Search of the Lost
Chord.
- Jul 26 1824:
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, geologist and Director of the Geological
Survey of Canada, born in Kilmington, Somerset, England.
- Jul 26 1832:
HMS Beagle arrives in Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay, at
the mouth of the Rio de La Platte on the east coast of South America.
- Jul 26 2005:
Record-breaking extreme heavy rainfall of 37.4 inches (944 mm) fell in
24 hours in Maharashtra State, including the city of Mumbai (Bombay),
western India, causing widespread flooding and more than 300 deaths.
...Western Canadian History
- Jul 26 1928:
Peter Lougheed, Premier of Alberta (1971-1985), born in
Calgary, Alberta.
...Royal Alberta Museum History
- Jul 26 1986:
Chinese Export Silver exhibition opens.