07-26-2004, 04:54 AM
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Location: Maryland
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July 26th
1469 ~ The Wars of the Roses: Rebel victory at the Battle of Edgecote Moor
1856 ~ Birthday of George Bernard Shaw, Author & Playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.
1887 ~ L. L. Zamenhof published "Dr. Esperanto's International Language".
1895 ~ Birthday of Aldous Huxley, Author.
1908 ~ Birthday of Salvador Allende, President of Chile.
1928 ~ Birthday of Stanley Kubrick, movie director.
1943 ~ Birthday of Mick Jagger, Musician.
1947 ~ Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
It seems that a new set up is on the way.
1956 ~ Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1991 ~ Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, was arrested for masturbating at a Sarasota, Florida adult theatre.
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