TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2011

Today is Tuesday, July 26, the 207th day of 2011. There are 158 days left in the year.

1790 ― U.S. passes Assumption bill making U.S. responsible for state debts

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

1887 ― First Esperanto book published

1908 ― Federal Bureau of Investigation established

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

1953 ― Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban revolution

1956 ― Egypt seizes Suez Canal

1957 ― USSR launches first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile

1963 ― U.S. Syncom 2, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched

1990 ― General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode