TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JULY 26
657 Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River
1526 Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon and colonists leave Santo Domingo for Florida.
1758 British forces capture France’s Fortress of Louisbourg after a seven-week siege.
1775 The Continental Congress establishes a postal system for the colonies with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general.
1788 New York became the 11th state in the United States.
1790 US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
1830 King Charles X of France issues five ordinances limiting the political and civil rights of citizens.
1893 Commercial production of the Addressograph started in Chicago, IL.
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)
1920 The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.
1941 President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China
1947 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.
1948 In an Executive Order, President Harry Truman calls for the end of discrimination and segregation in the U.S. armed forces.
1953 Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba
1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
1989 Robert Tappan Morris a graduate student from Cornell University was indicted on a felony charge for releasing a computer virus that disrupted thousands of computers throughout the United States in the fall of 1988.
1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is signed into law
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