Page 6: Historical Events In July - 26
Friday, 06 February 2026
1947 Department of Defense established. 

1947 National Security Act establishes the CIA. 

1947 Department of Defense forms. 

1948 Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in the armed forces. 

1948 President Harry S. Truman orders desegregation of the Armed Services 

1948 The inaugural black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show. 

1948 "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance. 

1948 Charles Mills, S Afr cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies. 

1949 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1951 Lick. 

1949 WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting. 

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

1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany. 

1952 Eva "Evita" Peron Argentina's inaugural lady, dies in Buenos Aires at 33. 

1952 Mickey Mantle hits his inaugural grand-slammer. 

1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]. 

1952 Maria Eva "Evita" Duarte Peron, Argentina's 1st lady, dies at 33 

1953 Cuban pirate radio station's inaugural transmission at Santiago de Cuba. 

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

1953 Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba 

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

1954 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. 

1954 Hans Lodeizen, [Johan Frederik], poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26. 

1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers. 

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

1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal Company. 

1956 Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer, dies at 46. 

1957 Carlos Armas, president of Guatemala, is assassinated. 

1957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200. 

1957 USA test launch inaugural ICBM. 

1957 USSR launches inaugural intercontinental multistage ballistic missile 

1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered. 

1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV 

1959 C Hoffmeister discovers asteroid #2183 

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