26 July

Events which occurred on the 26th of July.

Events[]

1863: Politician Sam Houston dies.
1947: President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into law, making the United States Air Force a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces. (TOS novel: From History's Shadow)
1971: NASA's Apollo 15 mission blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1986: Diplomat Averell Harriman dies.
2005: NASA's space shuttle Discovery launches for mission STS-114.
2155: The Earth Starfleet starship Enterprise rescues dozens of badly injured and irradiated human colonists from a Romulan attack on Tarod IX. (ENT - The Romulan War novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
2249: At the Lily Sloane Complex in San Francisco Bay, replacement dilithium arrives for the warp physics vault. (TOS novel: Academy: Collision Course)

1969: TOS comic: "Skin Deep" continues with the 6th installment, in Joe 90: Top Secret, Issue 28.
1980: The 28th installment of TOS comic: "Aberration on Abaris" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
1981: The 5th installment of TOS comic: "Quarantine" is published.
1982: The 9th installment of TOS comic: "The Nogura Regatta" is published.
1983: The 20th installment of TOS comic: "Terminally Yours" is published.
2005: ENT season 2 is released on DVD, region 1.
2008: Remastered edition of TOS episode: "The Empath" airs.
2016: TOS - Legacies novel: Best Defense is published by Pocket Books.