July 26
1775 - The Continental Congress established a Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin its Postmaster-General.
1788 - New York became the 11th state.
1847 - The western African country of Liberia, founded by freed American slaves, became Africa's first republic.
1863 - Sam Houston, the former president of the Republic of Texas, died in Huntsville at age 70.
1908 - The Office of the Chief Examiner, which in 1935 became the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was created.
1945 - Winston Churchill resigned as Britain's prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labour Party; Clement Attlee succeeded him.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act, which created the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1952 - Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.
1953 - Fidel Castro was among a group of rebelling anti-Batistas who unsuccessfully attacked an army barracks. (Castro ousted Batista in 1959.)
1971 - Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy on America's fourth successful manned mission to the moon.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law.
2002 - The House of Representatives voted to create an enormous Homeland Security Department in the biggest government reorganization in decades.
2013 - Ariel Castro, the man who'd imprisoned three women in his Cleveland home, subjecting them to a decade of rapes and beatings, pleaded guilty to 937 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty. (Castro later committed suicide in prison.)
2016 - Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
2018 - As a deadline set by a federal judge arrived, the Trump administration said more than 1,800 children who were separated from their families at the U.S-Mexico border had been reunited with parents and sponsors; hundreds more remained apart.
2018 - The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed for a series of crimes in the 1990s, including a gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people.
2020 - A processional with the casket of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, where Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years earlier.
Birthdays
23 - Thomasin McKenzie (actress)
30 - Elizabeth Gillies (actress)
30 - Taylor Momsen (actress/singer)
33 - Bianca Santos (actress)
35 - Francia Raisa (actress)
35 - Caitlin Gerard (actress)
36 - Miriam McDonald (actress)
37 - Monica Raymund (actress)
44 - Juliet Rylance (actress)
45 - Eve Myles (actress)
46 - Rebecca St. James (singer)
50 - Gary Owen (actor)
50 - Kate Beckinsale (actress)
52 - Chris Harrison (TV host)
56 - Jason Statham (actor)
58 - Jeremy Piven (actor)
59 - Danny Woodburn (actor/comedian)
59 - Sandra Bullock (actress)
64 - Kevin Spacey (actor)
66 - Nana Visitor (actress)
67 - Dorothy Hamill (figure skater)
73 - Susan George (actress)
74 - Roger Taylor (musician)
78 - Helen Mirren (actress)
80 - Mick Jagger (singer)
82 - Darlene Love (actress/singer)
92 - Robert Colbert (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 26
1948 - Babe Ruth was seen by the public for the last time, when he attended the New York City premiere of the motion picture, "The Babe Ruth Story."
1984 - Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb's record with his 3,502nd career single.
1987 - Catfish Hunter, Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1992 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for the 23rd consecutive season.
1996 - American swimmer Amy Van Dyken won the 50-meter freestyle to become Atlanta's first quadruple gold medalist and the first U.S. woman to win four in a single Olympics.
1998 - Three spectators were killed and six were injured by flying debris from a one-car crash at the U.S. 500 at Michigan Speedway. They were the first fan deaths at a major race in the United States in more than a decade.
2021 - Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz makes history as the first athlete from the Philippines to win an Olympic gold medal.
1775 - The Continental Congress established a Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin its Postmaster-General.
1788 - New York became the 11th state.
1847 - The western African country of Liberia, founded by freed American slaves, became Africa's first republic.
1863 - Sam Houston, the former president of the Republic of Texas, died in Huntsville at age 70.
1908 - The Office of the Chief Examiner, which in 1935 became the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was created.
1945 - Winston Churchill resigned as Britain's prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labour Party; Clement Attlee succeeded him.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act, which created the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1952 - Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.
1953 - Fidel Castro was among a group of rebelling anti-Batistas who unsuccessfully attacked an army barracks. (Castro ousted Batista in 1959.)
1971 - Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy on America's fourth successful manned mission to the moon.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law.
2002 - The House of Representatives voted to create an enormous Homeland Security Department in the biggest government reorganization in decades.
2013 - Ariel Castro, the man who'd imprisoned three women in his Cleveland home, subjecting them to a decade of rapes and beatings, pleaded guilty to 937 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty. (Castro later committed suicide in prison.)
2016 - Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
2018 - As a deadline set by a federal judge arrived, the Trump administration said more than 1,800 children who were separated from their families at the U.S-Mexico border had been reunited with parents and sponsors; hundreds more remained apart.
2018 - The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed for a series of crimes in the 1990s, including a gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people.
2020 - A processional with the casket of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, where Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years earlier.
Birthdays
23 - Thomasin McKenzie (actress)
30 - Elizabeth Gillies (actress)
30 - Taylor Momsen (actress/singer)
33 - Bianca Santos (actress)
35 - Francia Raisa (actress)
35 - Caitlin Gerard (actress)
36 - Miriam McDonald (actress)
37 - Monica Raymund (actress)
44 - Juliet Rylance (actress)
45 - Eve Myles (actress)
46 - Rebecca St. James (singer)
50 - Gary Owen (actor)
50 - Kate Beckinsale (actress)
52 - Chris Harrison (TV host)
56 - Jason Statham (actor)
58 - Jeremy Piven (actor)
59 - Danny Woodburn (actor/comedian)
59 - Sandra Bullock (actress)
64 - Kevin Spacey (actor)
66 - Nana Visitor (actress)
67 - Dorothy Hamill (figure skater)
73 - Susan George (actress)
74 - Roger Taylor (musician)
78 - Helen Mirren (actress)
80 - Mick Jagger (singer)
82 - Darlene Love (actress/singer)
92 - Robert Colbert (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 26
1948 - Babe Ruth was seen by the public for the last time, when he attended the New York City premiere of the motion picture, "The Babe Ruth Story."
1984 - Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb's record with his 3,502nd career single.
1987 - Catfish Hunter, Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1992 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for the 23rd consecutive season.
1996 - American swimmer Amy Van Dyken won the 50-meter freestyle to become Atlanta's first quadruple gold medalist and the first U.S. woman to win four in a single Olympics.
1998 - Three spectators were killed and six were injured by flying debris from a one-car crash at the U.S. 500 at Michigan Speedway. They were the first fan deaths at a major race in the United States in more than a decade.
2021 - Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz makes history as the first athlete from the Philippines to win an Olympic gold medal.