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Birthday July 26, 1739 George Clinton, (D-R), 4th VP (1805-12). |
Birthday July 26, 1799 Isaac Babbitt, US inventor of babbitt's metal for bearings. |
Birthday July 26, 1856 George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion) (Nobel 1925) in Dublin |
Birthday July 26, 1875 Carl Jung, founded analytic psychology. |
Birthday July 26, 1894 Aldous Huxley, author (Brave New World). |
Birthday July 26, 1908 Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president (1970-73). |
Birthday July 26, 1920 Bob Waterfield, NFL quarterback (Rams). |
Birthday July 26, 1922 Marjorie Lord, Make Room For Daddy - The mommy |
Birthday July 26, 1922 Blake Edwards, Movie director (10) |
Birthday July 26, 1922 Jason Robards, Jr., Actor (A Thousand Clowns). |
Birthday July 26, 1928 Stanley Kubrick, director (2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange). |
Birthday July 26, 1940 Mary Jo Kopechne, Ted Kennedy's driving buddy |
Birthday July 26, 1943 Entertainer Mick Jagger born |
Birthday July 26, 1943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss |
Birthday July 26, 1944 Micki King, Olympic diver |
Birthday July 26, 1945 Linda Harrison, in Berlin |
Birthday July 26, 1950 Susan George, in England |
Birthday July 26, 1954 Vitas Gerulaitis, Tennis player |
Birthday July 26, 1956 Dorothy Hamill, in Ct, Olympic Gold medal ice skater |
History July 26, 1775 Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General. |
History July 26, 1775 Congress establishes U.S. Post Office |
History July 26, 1788 Sydney Australia settled by British colonists. |
History July 26, 1788 NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution. |
History July 26, 1797 John Quincy Adams marries Louisa Johnson |
History July 26, 1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii |
History July 26, 1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society |
History July 26, 1847 Liberian independence proclaimed |
History July 26, 1863 Confederate leader John Hunt Morgan is captured |
History July 26, 1878 Officer Wyatt Earp fatally wounds cowboy |
History July 26, 1887 1st Esperanto book published. |
History July 26, 1908 FBI founded |
History July 26, 1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established |
History July 26, 1916 Australians battle Germans at Pozieres |
History July 26, 1928 Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1 |
History July 26, 1931 Grasshoppers bring ruin to Midwest |
History July 26, 1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRa |
History July 26, 1941 United States freezes Japanese assets |
History July 26, 1942 William Faulkner begins a screenwriting stint |
History July 26, 1945 Winston Churchill resigns |
History July 26, 1945 Churchill resigns as Britain's prime minister |
History July 26, 1947 Truman signs the National Security Act |
History July 26, 1947 Department of Defense established |
History July 26, 1948 1st black host of a network show - CBS' Bob Howard Show |
History July 26, 1952 Bob Mathias wins second Olympic decathlon |
History July 26, 1952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand slammer |
History July 26, 1952 Argentina's 1st lady Eva Peron dies in Buenos Aires at 33 |
History July 26, 1953 Korean War Armistice |
History July 26, 1953 Fidel Castro began revolution against Batista |
History July 26, 1956 Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal |
History July 26, 1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal |
History July 26, 1957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200 |
History July 26, 1957 USSR launchs 1st intercontinental multi-stage ballistic missle. |
History July 26, 1963 US launches Sycom 2 the 1st geosynchronous satellite |
History July 26, 1963 US Syncom 2 1st synchronous communications satellite launched |
History July 26, 1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy |
History July 26, 1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day). |
History July 26, 1967 Twins beat Yankees 3-2 in 18 |
History July 26, 1968 South Vietnamese opposition leader tried and sentenced |
History July 26, 1971 US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon |
History July 26, 1971 Apollo 15 launched to the moon. |
History July 26, 1972 South Vietnamese troops raise flag over Quang Tri |
History July 26, 1974 USSR's Soyuz failed to dock with Salyut 3. |
History July 26, 1975 Van McCoy's The Hustle is the #1 song in America |
History July 26, 1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth |
History July 26, 1982 Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket. |
History July 26, 1984 Real-life Psycho Ed Gein dies |
History July 26, 1984 Soyuz T-12? is launched with a female cosmonaut |
History July 26, 1998 Three race fans killed at Michigan Speedway |