As we speak is Saturday, July 26, the 207th day of 2025. There are 158 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Individuals with Disabilities Act, prohibiting discrimination primarily based on psychological or bodily disabilities.
Additionally on this date:
In 1775, the Continental Congress established a Submit Workplace and appointed Benjamin Franklin its Postmaster-Common.
In 1847, the western African nation of Liberia, based by freed American slaves, declared its independence.
In 1863, Sam Houston, former president of the Republic of Texas, died in Huntsville at age 70.
In 1945, Winston Churchill resigned as Britain’s prime minister after his Conservatives have been soundly defeated by the Labour Celebration. Clement Attlee succeeded him.
In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the Nationwide Safety Act, which reorganized America’s armed forces because the Nationwide Army Institution and created the Central Intelligence Company.
In 1948, President Truman issued Govt Order 9981, which desegregated the U.S. army.
In 1953, Fidel Castro started his revolt in opposition to Fulgencio Batista (fool-HEN’-see-oh bah-TEES’-tah) with an unsuccessful assault on a military barracks in japanese Cuba. (Castro ousted Batista in 1959.)
In 1971, Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy on America’s fourth profitable manned mission to the moon.
In 2002, the Republican-led Home voted to create an infinite Homeland Safety Division within the greatest authorities reorganization in many years.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton turned the primary lady to be nominated for president by a significant political celebration on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Philadelphia.
In 2018, the final six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on dying row have been executed for a sequence of crimes within the Nineteen Nineties, together with a gasoline assault on Tokyo subways that killed 13 individuals. Beforehand, seven different cult members have been executed on July 6 of that 12 months.
In 2020, a procession with the casket of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, the place Lewis and different civil rights marchers have been crushed 55 years earlier.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is 86.
Soccer Corridor of Famer Bob Lilly is 86.
Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer Darlene Love is 84.
The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger is 82.
Actor Helen Mirren is 80.
Rock musician Roger Taylor (Queen) is 76.
Olympic gold medal determine skater Dorothy Hamill is 69.
Actor Kevin Spacey is 66.
Actor Sandra Bullock is 61.
Actor Jeremy Piven is 60.
Actor Jason Statham is 58.
Actor Olivia Williams is 57.
Actor Kate Beckinsale is 52.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is 45.
Actor Juliet Rylance is 45.
Actor Monica Raymund is 39.
Actor Francia Raisa is 37.
Actor-singer Taylor Momsen is 32.
Actor Elizabeth Gillies is 32.
Actor Thomasin McKenzie is 25.
