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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_26" title="July 26">July 26</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_independence_days" title="List of national independence days">Independence Day</a> in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1778" title="1778">1778</a> – On the orders of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great" title="Catherine the Great">Catherine the Great</a> the first of tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian Christians <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration_of_Christians_from_the_Crimea_(1778)" title="Emigration of Christians from the Crimea (1778)">were removed from Crimea</a></b> and resettled in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pryazovia" title="Pryazovia">Pryazovia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1882" title="1882">1882</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boers" title="Boers">Boer</a> mercenaries established the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellaland" title="Stellaland">Republic of Stellaland</a></b> in land claimed by the United Kingdom as part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Bechuanaland" title="British Bechuanaland">British Bechuanaland</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953" title="1953">1953</a> – In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_City,_Arizona" title="Colorado City, Arizona">Short Creek, Arizona</a>, police conducted <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Creek_raid" title="Short Creek raid">a mass arrest</a></b> of approximately 400 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_fundamentalism" title="Mormon fundamentalism">Mormon fundamentalists</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_polygamy" title="Mormonism and polygamy">polygamy</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993" title="1993">1993</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_733" title="Asiana Airlines Flight 733">Asiana Airlines Flight 733</a></b> crashed into a mountain during a failed attempt to land at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokpo_Air_Base" title="Mokpo Air Base">Mokpo Airport</a>, South Korea, leading to the deaths of 68 of the people on board.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012" title="2012">2012</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Irish_Republican_Army" title="New Irish Republican Army">New Irish Republican Army</a></b> was formed from a merger of a number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissident_republican" title="Dissident republican">dissident republican</a> militant groups.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_de_Gontaut" title="Armand de Gontaut">Armand de Gontaut</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1592); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloeme_Evers-Emden" title="Bloeme Evers-Emden">Bloeme Evers-Emden</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1926); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancelma_Perlacios" title="Ancelma Perlacios">Ancelma Perlacios</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1964); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuji_Takechi" title="Tetsuji Takechi">Tetsuji Takechi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1988)</p>