July 26

Events

• 1989: Fires destroy forrested areas of Mt Parnitha.

Sports

• 1925: PAOK gives their first football match by winning Iraklis in Thessaloniki with 2-1. The fourleaf clover, on the players' shirt, will be replaced by the two-headed eagle on 20/3/1929, when the team will merge with AEK Thessaloniki
• 1964: Christos Papanicolaou breaks the Greek record in pole vault with 4.73m in Cairo.
• 1996: Pyrros Dimas wins gold in the Atlanta Olympic Games.

Deaths

• 1867: King Otto
• 1953: Nikolaos Plastiras, general and politician