Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 26

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 * 1778 – On 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.
 * 1882 – Boer mercenaries established the Republic of Stellaland (later flag pictured) in land claimed by the United Kingdom as part of British Bechuanaland.
 * 1953 – In Short Creek, Arizona, police conducted a mass arrest of approximately 400 Mormon fundamentalists for polygamy.
 * 1968 – After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South Vietnamese military court for illicit currency transactions.
 * 1993 – Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashed into a mountain during a failed attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea, leading to the deaths of 68 of the people on board.
 * 2012 – The New Irish Republican Army was formed from a merger of a number of dissident republican militant groups.
 * 2016 – A former employee carried out a mass stabbing at a care home for disabled people in Sagamihara, Japan, killing 19 people and wounding 26 others.
 * Born/died this day: | Armand de Gontaut|d|1592| Justin Holland|b|1819| George Bernard Shaw|b|1856| Carl Jung |b|1875|Daniel J. Callaghan |b|1890| Charlotte Serber |b|1911| Hoyt Wilhelm|b|1922| Ana María Matute|b|1925| Bloeme Evers-Emden|b|1926| Robert Todd Lincoln|d|1926| Howard Vernon |d|1921|Stanley Kubrick |b|1928| Winsor McCay|d|1934| Mick Jagger|b|1943| Betty Davis|b|1944| Asif Ali Zardari|b|1955| Sandra Bullock|b|1964| Ancelma Perlacios|b|1964| Kate Beckinsale|b|1973| Liz Truss|b|1975| Jacinda Ardern|b|1980| Ed Gein|d|1984| Tetsuji Takechi|d|1988| George W. Romney|d|1995|