Today is Friday, July 26, the 208th day of the yr 2024. There are 158 days left within the yr.
Today’s highlight of the story:
On July 26, 1990, President George HW Bush signed the ADA, which prohibits discrimination based on mental or physical disability.
Also on this date:
In 1775, the Continental Congress established a post office and appointed Benjamin Franklin as its postmaster general.
In 1863, Sam Houston, former President of the Republic of Texas, died in Huntsville on the age of 70.
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In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act, which reorganized the American armed forces because the National Military Establishment and created the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1948, President Truman issued Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the U.S. military.
In 1953, Fidel Castro began his rebellion against Fulgencio Batista (idiot) with an unsuccessful attack on a barracks in eastern Cuba. (Castro overthrew Batista in 1959.)
In 1971, Apollo 15 launched from Cape Kennedy on the fourth successful manned American moon mission.
In 2002, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to create a large Department of Homeland Security, the biggest government restructuring in many years.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the primary woman to be nominated for president by a significant political party on the Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia.
In 2018, the last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult still on death row were executed for a series of crimes committed within the Nineties, including a gas attack on the Tokyo subway that left 13 people dead.
In 2020, a procession carrying the casket of the late U.S. Representative John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, where Lewis and other civil rights activists were beaten 55 years earlier.
Today's birthdays:
- Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is 85.
- Bob Lilly, member of the Football Hall of Fame, is 85.
- Darlene Love, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is 83.
- Singer Brenton Wood is 83.
- Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones is 81.
- Actress Helen Mirren is 79.
- Rock musician Roger Taylor (Queen) is 75.
- Figure skater and Olympic champion Dorothy Hamill is 68 years old.
- Actor Kevin Spacey is 65.
- Actress Sandra Bullock is 60.
- Actor Jeremy Piven is 59.
- Actor Jason Statham is 57.
- Actress Olivia Williams is 56.
- Actress Kate Beckinsale is 51.
- Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is 44.
- Actress Juliet Rylance is 44.
- Actress Monica Raymond is 38.
- Actress Francia Raisa is 36.
- Actor and singer Taylor Momsen is 31.
- Actress Elizabeth Gillies is 31.
- Actor Thomasin McKenzie is 24.
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