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What happened in history on this day: July 26?
On July 26 in ...
- 1775 - Benjamin Franklin is appointed Postmaster General of the Continental Post Office, with salary set at $1000 per year.
- 1788 - New York becomes 11th state to ratify US Constitution.
- 1790 - US passes Assumption Act making federal government responsible for state debts.
- 1846 - US Congress authorizes Treasury notes to finance war with Mexico.
- 1847 - Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society.
- 1862 - Great Eastern ship departs New York for Liverpool with US$600,000 in specie aboard.
- 1863 - At Salineville, Ohio, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender.
- 1908 - US Federal Bureau of Investigation is established.
- 1918 - Race riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (three whites and one black killed).
- 1926 - American National Bar Association incorporates.
- 1931 - The millennialist Bible Student movement adopts the name Jehovah's Witnesses at a meeting in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1943 - 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record).
- 1945 - USS Indianapolis delivers key components of the two nuclear bombs to be dropped on Japan, to Tinian on the Northern Marianas Islands.
- 1947 - National Security Act establishes the US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1948 - US President Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces.
- 1958 - Army launches fourth US successful satellite, Explorer IV.
- 1963 - US Syncom 2, first geosynchronous communications satellite, is launched.
- 1964 - Teamsters' President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy.
- 1971 - Apollo 15 launched to the Moon.
- 1979 - (to July 27) In Saint Louis, Missouri, Auction '79 is held by four large coin companies: Paramount, Rare Coin Company of America, Stack's, and Superior. Some highlights:
- 1787 Brasher gold doubloon pattern, one of seven known: $430,000;
- 1849-C $1 gold, EF: $90,000, record for US gold dollar;
- 1838-O 50-cent, Proof 60: $62,500;
- 1854-O $20, EF: $45,000;
- 1920-S $10, MS-64: $44,000;
- 1828 $5, MS-65: $110,000;
- 1880 $4, flowing hair, Proof: $50,000;
- Ptolemaic gold octadrachm, Sidon Mint, EF: $15,500, record price;
- Canada 1911 $1 pattern: $160,000, bought by Tony Carrato of Niagara, Ontario.
- 1979 - Estimated 109 cm (43 inches) of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record).
- 1982 - Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket.
- 1984 - In the USA, one New York resident wins US$20 million in the state lottery, a new record for unshared win.
- 1989 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Junior for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
- 1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
- 1997 - Apple Computer releases Mac OS 8.0 for US$99. Code-name during development was Tempo.
- 1999 - The last Checker taxi cab is retired in New York City and auctioned off for approximately US$135,000.
- 2001 - US Senate confirms Henrietta Holsman Fore as US Mint director.
- 2004 - (to July 29) The Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts nominates John Kerry for U.S. President and John Edwards for Vice President.
- 2005 - Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on its "Return To Flight" mission. This is the first space shuttle flight in nearly 2 1/2 years since the breakup of Space Shuttle Columbia on its return from mission STS-107.
- 2007 - A 50-pound chunk of white ice crashes through the roof of a house, in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. Other large chunks of ice fall from the clear sky, tearing through nearby trees.
Births on July 26
- 1826 - Birth of Mahlon Loomis in Oppenheim, New York, USA; obtained patent for wireless technology (radio), first wireless telegrapher.
- 1876 - Birth of Ernest Schelling in Belvidere, New Jersey, USA; composer/conductor (Victory Ball).
- 1895 - Birth of Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen AKA Gracie Allen in San Francisco, California, USA; comedian, actor (Burns and Allen Show on radio and TV), spouse of George Burns.
- 1899 - Birth of Danton Walker in Mariette, Georgia, USA; columnist (Broadway Spotlight).
- 1903 - Birth of Donald Voorhees in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA; orchestra leader, musical director (Bell Telephone Hour on radio and TV).
- 1909 - Birth of Vivian Vance AKA Vivian Roberta Jones in Cherryvale, Kansas, USA; actress (Ethel Mertz - I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show).
- 1919 - Birth of James Ephraim Lovelock; scientist (Shell, NASA, Hewlett-Packard, Pye Chemicals, University of Reading), environmentalist (Gaia theory), inventor (electron capture detector), author (Gaia, Novacene).
- 1922 - Birth of Jason Robards Junior in Chicago, Illinois, USA; Oscar, Tony, and Emmy-winning actor (Inherit the Wind (1998), A Thousand Clowns, Act 1, Any Wednesday).
- 1922 - Birth of Marjorie Lord in San Francisco, California, USA; actress (Kathy - Danny Thomas Show).
- 1924 - Birth of Louis Bellson in Rock Falls, Illinois, USA; orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show).
- 1926 - Birth of James Best in Corydon, Indiana, USA; actor (Savages, Sounder, Rolling Thunder, The Dukes of Hazzard).
- 1928 - Birth of Stanley Kubrick in New York City, New York, USA; director (2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Lolita).
- 1941 - Birth of Bobby Hebb in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; country singer ("Sunny").
- 1941 - Birth of Brenton Wood in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA; rocker ("Gimme Little Sign").
- 1942 - Birth of Dobie Gray in Brookshire, Texas, USA; singer (In Crowd).
- 1944 - Birth of Kiel Martin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Detective John "J.D." La Rue - Hill Street Blues).
- 1945 - Birth of Linda Harrison in Berlin, Maryland, USA; actress (Bracken's World, Planet of the Apes).
- 1949 - Birth of William M Shepherd in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (STS-27, 41).
- 1951 - Birth of William Surles "Bill" McArthur Junior in Laurinburg, North Carolina, USA; Lieutenant Colonel / astronaut.
- 1954 - Birth of Vitas Gerulaitis in Brooklyn, New York, USA; tennis star (Australia 1987).
- 1956 - Birth of Dorothy Hamill in Connecticut, USA; ice figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976).
- 1961 - Birth of Gary Cherone in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; heavy metal vocalist (Extreme - "More Than Words", Van Halen).
- 1963 - Birth of Andrew C Timmons in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; guitarist (Danger Danger - "Screw It").
Deaths on July 26
- 1863 - Sam Houston, president of Texas, dies at age 70.
- 1977 - Death of Oskar Morgenstern in Princeton, New Jersey (born in Görlitz, Germany); economist, professor at University of Vienna, Princeton University and New York University, author of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944).
- 1978 - Death of Mary Robinson in Soquel, California, USA at age 66; Disney artist (It's a Small World), worked on Disney animation and live films, and parks, named Disney Legend in 1991.
- 1984 - Death of George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (born 1901).
- 1984 - Death of Ed "Psycho" Gein, American serial killer (born 1906).
- 1986 - Averell Harriman, statesman, dies in Yorktown Heights, New York at age 94.
- 1990 - Death of Brent Mydland at age 37, found dead of a drug overdose in his California home; keyboard player (Grateful Dead - "Far From Me").
- 1992 - Death of Mary Wells at age 49 of larynx cancer in Los Angeles, California, USA; singer ("My Guy" (1964)).
- 1998 - Death of David-Allen (Chico) Ryan at age 50 in a nursing home in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA; musician (Sha Na Na), actor (Grease).
- 2002 - Death of Norman Dale "Buddy" Baker in Sherman Oaks, California, at age 84; musician, composer for hundreds of Disney attractions, movies, TV shows, The Mickey Mouse Club, The Monkey's Uncle, named a Disney Legend in 1998.
- 2009 - Former world boxing champion Vernon Forrest is shot dead in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the victim of an apparent robbery.
- 2020 - Death of Dame Olivia de Havilland at age 104; British-American actress (Captain Blood (1935), Gone With the Wind (1939), To Each His Own (1947, Best Actress Oscar), The Heiress (1950, Best Actress Oscar)).
- 2022 - Death of James Ephraim Lovelock at age 103; scientist (Shell, NASA, Hewlett-Packard, Pye Chemicals, University of Reading), environmentalist (Gaia theory), inventor (electron capture detector), author (Gaia, Novacene).
- 2023 - Death of Randy Meisner at age 77 from complication of chronic pulmonary disease in Los Angeles, California, USA; founding member of the Eagles.
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