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Gravdigr · 07-26-2016, 12:30 PM

July 26

1469 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.

1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.

1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.

1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.

1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

1943 - Basil and Eva Jagger have a son, whom they name Michael, he will go by the name 'Mick'.

1944 – World War II: The Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.

1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.

HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War.

The United States Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb (Little Boy).

1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement.

1971 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.

1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.

2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

2006 - The guitar on which Sir Paul McCartney learned his first chords sold for £330,000 at an auction at London's Abbey Road Studios. The Rex acoustic guitar helped McCartney persuade John Lennon to let him join his band, The Quarrymen, in 1957.

The final edition of Top Of The Pops was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Just under 200 members of the public were in the audience for the show which was co-hosted by veteran disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile, its very first presenter. Classic performances from the Spice Girls, Wham, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles and Robbie Williams featured in the show alongside The Rolling Stones who were the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops on New Year's Day in 1964.

Births

1739 – George Clinton (no, not that one, this one was the 4th VPOTUS); 1856 – George Bernard Shaw; 1875 – Carl Jung; 1894 – Aldous Huxley; 1895 – Gracie Allen; 1903 – Estes Kefauver; 1904 – Edwin Albert Link (invented the flight simulator); 1909 – Vivian Vance ('Ethyl Mertz' on I love Lucy); 1921 – Jean Shepherd (narrated & wrote script for A Christmas Story); 1922 – Blake Edwards; 1922 – Jason Robards; 1923 – Jan Berenstain (create Berenstain Bears); 1923 – Biff Elliot (first actor to portray 'Mike Hammer', in I, The Jury); 1926 – James Best ('Roscoe P. Coltrane'); 1928 – Stanley Kubrick; 1929 – Joe Jackson (Jackson Family patriarch, not the New Wave dweeb); 1940 – Dobie Gray♪ ♫; 1941 – Darlene Love♪ ♫; 1943 – Peter Hyams; 1943 – Mick Jagger♪ ♫; 1945 – Helen Mirren; 1949 – Roger Taylor

; 1956 – Dorothy Hamill; 1957 – Nana Visitor; 1959 – Kevin Spacey; 1961 – Gary Cherone♪ ♫; 1964 – Sandra Bullock; 1965 – Jeremy Piven; 1967 – Jason Statham; 1973 – Kate Beckinsale; 1973 – Chris Pirillo (computer nerd); 1993 – Taylor Momsen

Deaths

1533 – Atahualpa; 1863 – Sam Houston; 1925 – William Jennings Bryan; 1932 – Fred Duesenberg; 1952 – Eva Perón; 1971 – Diane Arbus; 1984 – Ed Gein; 1992 – Mary Wells♪ ♫; 1995 – George W. Romney (Mitt's father); 2004 – William A. Mitchell (created Pop Rocks and Cool Whip); 2013 – JJ Cale♪ ♫

, George P. Mitchell (hydraulic fracturing pioneer); 2015 – Vic Firth

, Ann Rule

07-26-2016, 12:30 PM	#178
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	July 26 1469 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place. 1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. 1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States. 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces. 1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation). 1943 - Basil and Eva Jagger have a son, whom they name Michael, he will go by the name 'Mick'. 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation. 1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War. The United States Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb (Little Boy). 1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. 1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement. 1971 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle. 1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. 1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush. 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. 2006 - The guitar on which Sir Paul McCartney learned his first chords sold for £330,000 at an auction at London's Abbey Road Studios. The Rex acoustic guitar helped McCartney persuade John Lennon to let him join his band, The Quarrymen, in 1957. The final edition of Top Of The Pops was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Just under 200 members of the public were in the audience for the show which was co-hosted by veteran disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile, its very first presenter. Classic performances from the Spice Girls, Wham, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles and Robbie Williams featured in the show alongside The Rolling Stones who were the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops on New Year's Day in 1964. Births 1739 – George Clinton (no, not that one, this one was the 4th VPOTUS); 1856 – George Bernard Shaw; 1875 – Carl Jung; 1894 – Aldous Huxley; 1895 – Gracie Allen; 1903 – Estes Kefauver; 1904 – Edwin Albert Link (invented the flight simulator); 1909 – Vivian Vance ('Ethyl Mertz' on I love Lucy); 1921 – Jean Shepherd (narrated & wrote script for A Christmas Story); 1922 – Blake Edwards; 1922 – Jason Robards; 1923 – Jan Berenstain (create Berenstain Bears); 1923 – Biff Elliot (first actor to portray 'Mike Hammer', in I, The Jury); 1926 – James Best ('Roscoe P. Coltrane'); 1928 – Stanley Kubrick; 1929 – Joe Jackson (Jackson Family patriarch, not the New Wave dweeb); 1940 – Dobie Gray♪ ♫; 1941 – Darlene Love♪ ♫; 1943 – Peter Hyams; 1943 – Mick Jagger♪ ♫; 1945 – Helen Mirren; 1949 – Roger Taylor; 1956 – Dorothy Hamill; 1957 – Nana Visitor; 1959 – Kevin Spacey; 1961 – Gary Cherone♪ ♫; 1964 – Sandra Bullock; 1965 – Jeremy Piven; 1967 – Jason Statham; 1973 – Kate Beckinsale; 1973 – Chris Pirillo (computer nerd); 1993 – Taylor Momsen Deaths 1533 – Atahualpa; 1863 – Sam Houston; 1925 – William Jennings Bryan; 1932 – Fred Duesenberg; 1952 – Eva Perón; 1971 – Diane Arbus; 1984 – Ed Gein; 1992 – Mary Wells♪ ♫; 1995 – George W. Romney (Mitt's father); 2004 – William A. Mitchell (created Pop Rocks and Cool Whip); 2013 – JJ Cale♪ ♫, George P. Mitchell (hydraulic fracturing pioneer); 2015 – Vic Firth, Ann Rule __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.