July 26
1775 - The Continental Congress established a Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin as its first Postmaster General.
1788 - New York became the 11th state.
1847 - Liberia, the western African country founded by freed American slaves, became Africa's first republic.
1863 - Sam Houston, 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 British prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labour Party. (He was succeeded as prime minister by Clement Attlee.)
1947 - President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act into law, which reorganized America's armed forces as the National Military Establishment by creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1948 - President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the U.S. military.
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.
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, prohibiting discrimination based on mental or physical disabilities.
2002 - The Republican-led House voted to create an enormous Homeland Security Department in the biggest government reorganization in decades.
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 - 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 Pettis Bridge in Alabama, were Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years earlier.
Birthdays
24 - Thomasin McKenzie (actress)
31 - Elizabeth Gillies (actress)
31 - Taylor Momsen (actress/singer)
36 - Francia Raisa (actress)
38 - Monica Raymund (actress)
44 - Juliet Rylance (actress)
51 - Kate Beckinsale (actress)
56 - Olivia Williams (actress)
57 - Jason Statham (actor)
59 - Jeremy Piven (actor)
60 - Sandra Bullock (actress)
65 - Kevin Spacey (actor)
68 - Dorothy Hamill (figure skater)
79 - Helen Mirren (actress)
81 - Mick Jagger (singer)
83 - Brenton Wood (singer)
83 - Darlene Love (singer)
85 - Bob Lilly (football player)
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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 for career singles with 3,502.
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 snapped a club-record 14-game losing streak.
1775 - The Continental Congress established a Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin as its first Postmaster General.
1788 - New York became the 11th state.
1847 - Liberia, the western African country founded by freed American slaves, became Africa's first republic.
1863 - Sam Houston, 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 British prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labour Party. (He was succeeded as prime minister by Clement Attlee.)
1947 - President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act into law, which reorganized America's armed forces as the National Military Establishment by creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1948 - President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the U.S. military.
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.
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, prohibiting discrimination based on mental or physical disabilities.
2002 - The Republican-led House voted to create an enormous Homeland Security Department in the biggest government reorganization in decades.
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 - 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 Pettis Bridge in Alabama, were Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years earlier.
Birthdays
24 - Thomasin McKenzie (actress)
31 - Elizabeth Gillies (actress)
31 - Taylor Momsen (actress/singer)
36 - Francia Raisa (actress)
38 - Monica Raymund (actress)
44 - Juliet Rylance (actress)
51 - Kate Beckinsale (actress)
56 - Olivia Williams (actress)
57 - Jason Statham (actor)
59 - Jeremy Piven (actor)
60 - Sandra Bullock (actress)
65 - Kevin Spacey (actor)
68 - Dorothy Hamill (figure skater)
79 - Helen Mirren (actress)
81 - Mick Jagger (singer)
83 - Brenton Wood (singer)
83 - Darlene Love (singer)
85 - Bob Lilly (football player)
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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 for career singles with 3,502.
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 snapped a club-record 14-game losing streak.
