Historical Events In July - 26

1947  On July - 26 department of Defense established   

1947  On this day in history national Security Act establishes the CIA   

1947  Department of Defense forms on July - 26.   

1948  Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in the armed forces on this day in history.   

1948  President Harry S. Truman orders desegregation of the Armed Services on this day in history.   

1948  The first black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show on July - 26.   

1948  On July - 26 "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance   

1948  On this day in history charles Mills, S Afr cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies   

1949  C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1951 Lick on July - 26.   

1949  WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting on this day in history.   

1950  Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game on July - 26.   

1951  Netherlands ends state of war with Germany on this day in history.   

1952  Eva "Evita" Peron Argentina's first lady, dies in Buenos Aires at 33 on July - 26.   

1952  On July - 26 mickey Mantle hits his first grand-slammer   

1952  King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday] on July - 26.   

1952  Maria Eva "Evita" Duarte Peron, Argentina's 1st lady, dies at 33 on July - 26.   

1953  On this day in history cuban pirate radio station's first transmission at Santiago de Cuba   

1953  Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban rev on July - 26.   

1953  Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba on this day in history.   

1953  Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies on July - 26.   

1954  On July - 26 3 aircraft from USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) shoot down 2 Chinese fighters that fired on them while they were providing air cover for rescue operations for a U.K. airliner shot down by a Chinese aircraft.   

1954  WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting on July - 26.   

1954  On this day in history hans Lodeizen, [Johan Frederik], poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26   

1955  Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers on July - 26.   

1956  Egypt seizes Suez Canal (soon Britian and France along with Isreal show up) on July - 26.   

1956  President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal Company on this day in history.   

1956  Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer, dies at 46 on July - 26.   

1957  Carlos Armas, president of Guatemala, is assassinated on July - 26.   

1957  Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200 on this day in history.   

1957  On July - 26 uSA test launch first ICBM   

1957  USSR launches first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile on July - 26.   

1957  Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered on July - 26.   

1958  Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV on this day in history.   

1959  C Hoffmeister discovers asteroid #2183 on this day in history.   

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1030  Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079) was born on July - 26.   

1467  On this day in history birth of ferdinand II, King of Naples   

1678  On July - 26 birth of joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)   

1694  Johann Samuel Endler, composer was born on July - 26.   

1739  On this day in history birth of george Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12)   

1782  John Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes) was born on this day in history.   

1791  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM   

1796  George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes) was born on July - 26.   

0796  Death of Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796) on July - 26.   

0811  On July - 26 nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle   

1342  Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies on July - 26.   

1380  On July - 26 death of emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)   

1471  Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1533  Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies on this day in history.   

1541  On July - 26 death of francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima   

1592  On this day in history death of armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)