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Today in History: July 26
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Mu'awiya defeats Caliph Ali in the Battle of Siffin in Mesopotamia.

1526
Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon and colonists leave Santo Domingo for Florida.

1529
Francisco Pizarro receives a royal warrant to "discover and conquer" Peru.

1758
British forces capture France's Fortress of Louisbourg after a seven-week siege.

1759
The French relinquish Fort Ticonderoga in New York to the British under General Jeffrey Amherst.


1775
The Continental Congress establishes a postal system for the colonies with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general.

1790
An attempt at a counter-revolution in France is put down by the National Guard at Lyons.

1794
The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus, France.

1830
King Charles X of France issues five ordinances limiting the political and civil rights of citizens.

1847
Liberia becomes the first African colony to become an independent state.


1848
The French army suppresses the Paris uprising.

1886
William Gladstone is replaced by Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister of England.

1918
Britain's top war ace, Edward Mannock, is shot down by ground fire on the Western Front.

1920
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.

1948
In an Executive Order, President Harry Truman calls for the end of discrimination and segregation in the U.S. armed forces.

2005
The shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-114, marking a return to space after the shuttle Columbia crash of 2003

Today in History: Born on July 26
1796
George Catlin, American artist and author.

1856
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, Major Barbara).

1875
Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.

1893
George Grosz, German satiric artist.

1895
Gracie Allen, actress, wife and foil of George Burns.


1914
Erskine Hawkins, trumpeter.

1928
Stanley Kubrick, film director (Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey).

1928
Bernice Rubens, Welsh novelist and filmmaker.

1943
Mick [Michael Phillip] Jagger, musician, member of the Rolling Stones.

1947
Alan Gordon Anderson, musician, songwriter, member of New Rhythm and Blues Quartet [NRBQ] and The Wildweeds.

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My uncle always said , "Do something you love, and you'll never work a day in your life."



He did heroin.