Today July 26 in history
* 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
* 1945, the Potsdam Declaration warned Imperial Japan to unconditionally surrender, or face “prompt and utter destruction.” ... Winston Churchill resigned as Britain’s prime minister after his Conservatives were defeated by the Labour Party. Clement Attlee succeeded him.
*1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act, which reorganized America’s armed forces as the National Military Establishment and created the Central Intelligence Agency.
* 1953, Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba. (Castro ousted Batista in 1959.)
* 1971, Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on America’s fourth successful manned mission to the moon.
* 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act.
* 2002, the Republican-led House voted, 295-132, to create an enormous Homeland Security Department in the biggest government reorganization in decades.
* 2017, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter he would not “accept or allow” transgender people to serve in the U.S. military.
* 2020, a processional with the casket of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge at Selma, Ala., where Lewis and civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years earlier. (The AP 07/26/23)
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