On This Day: July 26th

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.