1907 –<\/strong> The\u00a0Chester<\/i>\u00a0was launched. It was the first turbine-propelled ship.<\/p>\n 1908 –<\/strong> U.S. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte issued an order that created an investigative agency that was a forerunner of the FBI.<\/p>\n 1945 –<\/strong> Winston Churchill resigned as Britain’s prime minister.<\/p>\n 1947 –<\/strong> U.S. President Truman signed the National Security Act. The act created the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n 1948 –<\/strong> Babe Ruth was seen by the public for the last time when he attended the New York City premiere of the motion picture, “The Babe Ruth Story.”<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – U.S. President Truman signed executive orders that prohibited discrimination in the U.S. armed forces and federal employment.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba. Castro eventually ousted Batista six years later.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> –\u00a0Apollo 15<\/i>\u00a0was launched from Cape Kennedy,\u00a0FL.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – AT&T and British Telecommunications PLC announced they were forming a joint venture to combine international operations and develop a new Internet system.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – 1,500 pieces of Marilyn Monroe’s personal items went on display at Christie’s in New York,\u00a0NY. The items went on sale later in 1999.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> \u2013 The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> \u2013 Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> \u2013 Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Eart.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> \u2013 Abe Forsythe, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter History of 26 July 1907 – The\u00a0Chester\u00a0was launched. It was the first turbine-propelled ship. 1908 – U.S. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte issued an order that created an investigative agency that was a forerunner of the FBI. 1945 – Winston Churchill resigned as Britain’s prime minister. 1947 – U.S. President Truman signed the National Security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[814,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-11159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-26-july","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-2TZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24251,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159\/revisions\/24251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Maicon Sisenando, Brazilian footballer
\n1982<\/strong> \u2013 Gilad Hochman, Israeli composer
\n1982<\/strong> \u2013 Christopher Kane, Scottish fashion designer
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Kelly Clark, American snowboarder
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Stephen Makinwa, Nigerian footballer
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Roderick Strong, American wrestler
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Naomi van As, Dutch field hockey player
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Delonte West, American basketball player
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Benjamin Kayser, French rugby player
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Sabri Sar\u0131o\u011flu, Turkish footballer
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Marcus Benard, American football player
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Ga\u00ebl Clichy, French footballer
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Audrey De Montigny, Canadian singer-songwriter
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Mat Gamel, American baseball player
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 Leonardo Ulloa, the Argentinian footballer
\n1986<\/strong> \u2013 John White, English footballer
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Panagiotis Kone, Greek footballer
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Jordie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
\n1987<\/strong> \u2013 Fredy Montero, Colombian footballer
\n1988<\/strong> \u2013 Yurie Omi, Japanese female announcer
\n1988<\/strong> \u2013 Sayaka Akimoto, Filipino\u2013Japanese actress, and singer
\n1991<\/strong> \u2013 Tyson Barrie, Canadian ice hockey player
\n1992<\/strong> \u2013 Marika Koroibete, Fijian rugby player
\n1993<\/strong> \u2013 Raymond Faitala-Mariner, New Zealand rugby league player
\n1994<\/strong> \u2013 Ella Leivo, a Finnish tennis player
\n1996<\/strong> \u2013 Olivia Breen, British sprinter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"