Today is Friday, July 26th, the 208th day of 2024. There are 158 days left this year.
Today’s History Highlights:
On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the ADA, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of mental or physical disability.
This day too:
In 1775, the Continental Congress established the Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin as Postmaster General.
In 1847, Liberia, a West African country founded by freed American slaves, declared independence.
In 1863, former President of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, died in Huntsville at age 70.
In 1945, Winston Churchill resigned as British Prime Minister after his Conservative Party was defeated by the Labour Party. He was succeeded by Clement Attlee.[1945年、ウィンストン・チャーチルは、率いる保守党が労働党に大敗した後、英国首相を辞任した。クレメント・アトリーが後を継いだ。
In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act, reorganizing the United States military into a national military organization and creating the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1948, President Truman issued Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the U.S. military.
In 1953, Fidel Castro stormed a military barracks in eastern Cuba, starting an unsuccessful rebellion against Fulgencio Batista (whom Castro ousted in 1959).
In 1971, Apollo 15 launched from Kennedy Space Center, marking America’s fourth successful manned mission to the Moon.
In 2002, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to create the massive Department of Homeland Security, the biggest government reorganization in decades.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
In 2018, the last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult remaining on death row were executed for a series of crimes in the 1990s, including a poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people.
In 2020, a procession carrying the casket of the late Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, the site where Lewis and other civil rights protesters were assaulted 55 years ago.
Today’s birthdays: Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is 85. Football Hall of Famer Bob Lilley is 85. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love is 83. Singer Brenton Wood is 83. Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones is 81. Actor Helen Mirren is 79. Rock musician Roger Taylor (Queen) is 75. Olympic figure skating gold medalist Dorothy Hamill is 68. Actor Kevin Spacey is 65. Actor Sandra Bullock is 60. Actor Jeremy Piven is 59. Actor Jason Statham is 57. Actor Olivia Williams is 56. Actor Kate Beckinsale is 51. Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is 44. Actor Juliet Rylance is 44. Actor Monica Raymonde is 38. Actor Francia Raisa is 36. Actor and singer Taylor Momsen is 31. Actress Elizabeth Gillies is 31. Actor Thomasin McKenzie is 24.