Today is Thursday, July 26, the 208th day of 2012. There are 158 days left in the year.
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.
1947 ― National Security Act establishes the CIA
1953 ― Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban revolution
1956 ― Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1957 ― USSR launches first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1990 ― U.S. beats the Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at the Goodwill Games
1991 ― Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater