July 26

July 26th

On this day in 1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.


In 1968 - The Moody Blues released "In Search of the Lost Chord"


In 1973 - ZZ Top released "Tres Hombres"


In 1983 - Oingo Boingo released "Good For Your Soul"


In 2016 – Solar Impulse 2 became the 1st solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate Earth.


Birthdays:

Samuel Ervin Beam


Joan Wasser


Olivia Williams
as Rosemary Cross in "Rushmore"


Jason Statham
as Turkish in "Snatch"


Danny Woodburn
as Forensic Photographer in "Lord of Illusions"


Ralf Metzenmacher
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Sandra Bullock
as Diane Shayer in "The Vanishing"


Angela Hewitt


Nana Visitor

in "The Sentinel"

Robert Phillips


Susan George
as Audrey in "The Sorcerers"

as Marianne in "Die Screaming, Marianne"

as Laura Fletcher in "The House Where Evil Dwells"


Roger Taylor


Luboš Andršt


Helen Mirren aka "Evil Zionist Bitch"
as Morgan le Fey in "Excalibur"


Betty Davis


Mick Jagger
as himself in "Invocation of My Demon Brother"

as Turner in "Performance"



Peter Hyams



Dobie Gray


Bobby Hebb


Barbara Jefford
as Molly Bloom in "James Joyce's Ulysses"


Alexis Weissenberg


James Best
as Thorne Sherman in "The Killer Shrews"

as Stuart in "Shock Corridor"


Bernice Rubens

Jan Berenstain

Jason Robards
as Joe's Father in "Johnny Got His Gun"

as Cesar Charron in "Murders in the Rue Morgue"


Blake Edwards


Virginia Gilmore
as Millie Zalenko / Teresa Henning in "Walk East on Beacon"


Vivian Vance

Lucien Wercollier
Monument at the Hinzert Concentration Camp near Trier and the Luxembourg border


Gracie Allen

Alduos Huxley
Free eBooks at Project Gutenberg


George Grosz
"Republican Automatons"


Carl Jung



George Catlin
"South side of Buffalo Island"

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