SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2008

Today is Saturday, July 26, the 208th day of 2008. There are 158 days left in the year.

1775 _ Benjamin Franklin becomes first Postmaster General

1847 _ Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society

1848 _ First Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls, N.Y.)

1865 _ Patrick Francis Healy is first black awarded Ph. D (Louvain, Belgium)

1887 _ First Esperanto book published

1908 _ Federal Bureau of Investigation established

1945 _ Churchill resigns as Britain's P.M.

1947 _ National Security Act establishes the CIA

1981 _ Two climbers rappel 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela

1990 _ General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode