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