On This Day:
Saturday July 26, 2014 This is the 207th day of the year, with 158 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: bowling The modern sport of bowling probably originated in ancient Germany as a religious ceremony - using a Kegel (club) set at one end to represent the Heide (heathen) and rolling a stone at it. Success at knocking over the Kegel meant one had cleansed oneself of sin. Bowlers are still called keglers.
Holidays Feast day of St. Anne, St. Simeon the Armenian, St. Joachim, and St. Bartholomea Capitanio.
Cuba: National Day.
Liberia: Independence Day.
Maldives: Independence Day.
Events 1775 - The Continental Congress established a postal system for the colonies with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general.
1788 - New York became the eleventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America.
1847 - The Republic of Liberia, formerly a colony of the American Colonization Society, declared its independence. It was the first African colony to secure independence.
1908 - U.S. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte established the Office of the Chief Examine, which was the forerunner of the FBI.
1945 - In the 11th hour of World War II, Winston Churchill was forced to resign as British prime minister following his party's electoral defeat by the Labour Party. He became leader of the opposition and in 1951 was again elected prime minister.
1947 - President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. President Truman unified the Army and Navy under the Department of Defense .
1948 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, officially integrating the Armed Forces many years before the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
1953 - Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl led a group of approximately 160 rebels in the Moncada Barracks attacks, widely accepted as the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
1956 - The Suez Crisis began when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the British- and French-owned Suez Canal.
1974 - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee recommended impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon.
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act.
2000 - A federal judge approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and more than a half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded money deposited by Holocaust victims.
Births 1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright.
1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.
1892 - Pearl Buck, American Nobel Prize-winning author.
1894 - Aldous Huxley, American philosopher, satirist, author.
1895 - Gracie Allen, American actress, wife and foil of George Burns.
1902 - William Lear, American engineer and industrialist who founded the Lear Jet Corporation.
1912 - Vivian Vance, American Emmy Award-winning actress.
1922 - Blake Edwards (McEdwards), American film director.
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director.
1943 - Mick Jagger, British singer, member of the rock group Rolling Stones.
1964 - Sandra Bullock, film actress born in Arlington County, Virginia.
1980 - Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist.
Deaths 1863 - Samuel Houston, American lawyer, politician, and president of the Republic of Texas.
1925 - William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer, statesman, and politician.
1952 - Eva Perón, Argentinian populist leader and wife of Argentina president Juan Perón.
1984 - George Gallup, statistician and opinion pollster, born in Jefferson, Iowa.
1995 - George Romney, Mexican-born American businessman and politician.
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