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