July 26

Gongale Goda Banda was crowned as Kandyan King at Dambulla Vihara in 1848.

National Day of the Maldives.

Suez Canal was taken over by Egypt.

July 27

"Mihira" Children's periodical commenced publication in 1964.

Bank of Ceylon was nationalised in 1961.

First agency post office declared opened at Borella in1981.

July 28

Fingerprints first used as a means of identification by William Herschd in 1858.

July 29

Boy Scouts Movement was officially formed by Lord Baden Powell in 1907.

Indo-Lanka Peace Accord signed in 1987.

July 30

Institute of Technological Studies was inaugurated in 1987.

July 31

Duncan White secured second place in the Olympic Games(400m Hurdles event)in 1948.

August 1

Colombo Academy named as Royal College in 1881.

National Day of Switzerland.

Bank of Ceylon in Bristol street was Fort declared open 1939.

Sri Lanka,oil and fat corporation was established in 1958.

Sri Lanka State Plantation Corporation was established in 1958.

.Colombo Port nationalised and Port Cargo Corporation was established in 1958

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Compiled by W.A. Rusiru Jayasuriya

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