07-26-2007, 05:13 AM
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July 26th
1822 ~ Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín met in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1856 ~ Birthday of George Bernard Shaw, Author, Playwright, awarded t he Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.
1875 ~ Birthday of Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist.
1898 ~ Birthday of Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft engineer and designer.
1928 ~ Birthday of Stanley Kubrick, Movie Director.
1941 ~ In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the seizure of all Japanese assets in the U.S.
1943 ~ Birthday of Mick Jagger, English Musician. (Rolling Stones)
1947 ~ U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act into law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
1956 ~ Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
1991 ~ Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, was arrested for allegedly masturbating at a Sarasota, Florida adult theatre.
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