Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Events include the start of the year-long countdown to the US presidential election, and Spain’s fourth general election in four years, Shinzo Abe becomes Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Mexico marks 500 years since Spain’s conquest of the Aztec Empire, and Berlin celebrates the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia marks the centenary of the birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Mercury will transit across the face of the sun, and the first of several films about the 2018 Thailand cave rescue is released
