July 26
Today is the 207th day of 2021, there are 158 days left in the year.
1775 - The Continental Congress established a Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin its Postmaster-General.
1788 - New York became the 11th state.
1847 - Liberia became Africa's first republic.
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 Labor Party. He was succeeded by Clement Attlee.
1945 - The Potsdam Declaration warned Imperial Japan to unconditionally surrender, or face “prompt and utter destruction.”
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.
1948 - President Harry S. Truman signed executive orders prohibiting discrimination in the U.S. armed forces and federal employment.
1952 - Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.
1952 - Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1953 - Fidel Castro was among a group of anti-Batistas who unsuccessfully attacked an army barracks in Cuba.
1956 - Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
1964 - Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
1971 - Apollo 15 was launched on a manned mission to the moon.
1990 - The House of Representatives reprimanded Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) for ethics violations.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act into law.
1990 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a young woman -- later identified as Kimberly Bergalis of Florida -- had been infected with the AIDS virus, apparently by her dentist.
2000 - A federal judge approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and more than a half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded money deposited by Holocaust victims.
2002 - The Republican-led House voted, 295-132, to create an enormous Homeland Security Department in the biggest government reorganization in decades.
2006 - A jury in Houston found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of her children in a bathtub in the second trial she faced on the charges; she was committed to a state mental hospital.
2011 - The White House threatened to veto emergency House legislation that aimed to avert a threatened national default.
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.
2017 - President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he would not “accept or allow” transgender people to serve in the U.S. military. (After a legal battle, the Defense Department approved a new policy requiring most individuals to serve in their birth gender.)
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
27 - Taylor Momsen (singer)
28 - Elizabeth Gillies (actress)
31 - Bianca Santos (actress)
33 - Francia Raisa (actress)
33 - Miriam McDonald (actress)
33 - Caitlin Gerard (actress)
35 - Monica Raymund (actress)
42 - Juliet Rylance (actress)
43 - Eve Myles (actress)
44 - Rebecca St. James (singer)
48 - Gary Owen (actor)
48 - Kate Beckinsale (actress)
50 - Chris Harrison (TV host)
54 - Jason Statham (actor)
56 - Jeremy Piven (actor)
57 - Danny Woodburn (actor/comedian)
57 - Sandra Bullock (actress)
62 - Kevin Spacey (actor)
64 - Nana Visitor (actress)
65 - Dorothy Hamil (figure skater)
71 - Susan George (actress)
76 - Helen Mirren (actress)
78 - Mick Jagger (singer)
80 - Darlene Love (actress/singer)
90 - Robert Colbert (actor)
=========================================
Today in Sports History - July 26
1933 - Joe DiMaggio ends a 61-game hitting streak in the Pacific Coast League.
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 records his 100th strikeout 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.
2004 - The Arizona Diamondbacks ended their club-record losing streak of 14 games.
Today is the 207th day of 2021, there are 158 days left in the year.
1775 - The Continental Congress established a Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin its Postmaster-General.
1788 - New York became the 11th state.
1847 - Liberia became Africa's first republic.
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 Labor Party. He was succeeded by Clement Attlee.
1945 - The Potsdam Declaration warned Imperial Japan to unconditionally surrender, or face “prompt and utter destruction.”
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.
1948 - President Harry S. Truman signed executive orders prohibiting discrimination in the U.S. armed forces and federal employment.
1952 - Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.
1952 - Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1953 - Fidel Castro was among a group of anti-Batistas who unsuccessfully attacked an army barracks in Cuba.
1956 - Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
1964 - Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
1971 - Apollo 15 was launched on a manned mission to the moon.
1990 - The House of Representatives reprimanded Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) for ethics violations.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act into law.
1990 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a young woman -- later identified as Kimberly Bergalis of Florida -- had been infected with the AIDS virus, apparently by her dentist.
2000 - A federal judge approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and more than a half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded money deposited by Holocaust victims.
2002 - The Republican-led House voted, 295-132, to create an enormous Homeland Security Department in the biggest government reorganization in decades.
2006 - A jury in Houston found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of her children in a bathtub in the second trial she faced on the charges; she was committed to a state mental hospital.
2011 - The White House threatened to veto emergency House legislation that aimed to avert a threatened national default.
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.
2017 - President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he would not “accept or allow” transgender people to serve in the U.S. military. (After a legal battle, the Defense Department approved a new policy requiring most individuals to serve in their birth gender.)
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
27 - Taylor Momsen (singer)
28 - Elizabeth Gillies (actress)
31 - Bianca Santos (actress)
33 - Francia Raisa (actress)
33 - Miriam McDonald (actress)
33 - Caitlin Gerard (actress)
35 - Monica Raymund (actress)
42 - Juliet Rylance (actress)
43 - Eve Myles (actress)
44 - Rebecca St. James (singer)
48 - Gary Owen (actor)
48 - Kate Beckinsale (actress)
50 - Chris Harrison (TV host)
54 - Jason Statham (actor)
56 - Jeremy Piven (actor)
57 - Danny Woodburn (actor/comedian)
57 - Sandra Bullock (actress)
62 - Kevin Spacey (actor)
64 - Nana Visitor (actress)
65 - Dorothy Hamil (figure skater)
71 - Susan George (actress)
76 - Helen Mirren (actress)
78 - Mick Jagger (singer)
80 - Darlene Love (actress/singer)
90 - Robert Colbert (actor)
=========================================
Today in Sports History - July 26
1933 - Joe DiMaggio ends a 61-game hitting streak in the Pacific Coast League.
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 records his 100th strikeout 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.
2004 - The Arizona Diamondbacks ended their club-record losing streak of 14 games.
