THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 26
July 26 in history
What happened on July 26: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1952 and 1985, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Kenyatta’s Nyeri speech
26 Jul 1952 — Before a huge crowd at Ruring’u, Kenyatta tells his audience that the Kenya African Union is not Mau Mau. Officials heard evasion; militants, many of them in the crowd, heard a leader who would not break with them.
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— World Conference on Women, Nairobi
15–26 Jul 1985 — The conference closing the UN Decade for Women meets in Kenya; between 12,000 and 15,000 people attend the parallel NGO Forum, most of them from the Global South. Delegates adopt the Forward-Looking Strategies by consensus.
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