Daily Calendar for July 26th, 2017

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• Born : Bert (character on Sesame Street)

1770s

• 1775: Benjamin Franklin became the first Postmaster General

1780s

• 1788: New York ratified the Constitution and became the 11th state

1850s

• Born 1856: George Bernard Shaw (playwright)

1860s

• Died 1863: Sam Houston (president of Texas, 1836-38; 1841-44)

1870s

• 1875: "Black Bart" made his first stagecoach robbery in California

1920s

• Born 1922: Blake Edwards (director)

• Born 1922: Jason Robards (actor)

• Born 1928: Stanley Kubrick (director)

1940s

• Born 1943: Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (singer)

• 1945: The Potsdam Declaration was issued by President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan

1950s

• Died 1952: Eva Peron (wife of Argentine President Juan Peron)

• 1956: The SS Andrea Doria sunk near Nantucket Lightship, MA

• Born 1956: Dorothy Hamill (Olympic gold medal figure skater)

• Born 1959: Kevin Spacey (actor)

1960s

• Born 1964: Sandra Bullock (actress)

• Born 1965: Jeremy Piven (actor)

• 1969: First Moon rock samples analyzed, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Houston, Texas

1970s

• Born 1973: Kate Beckinsale (actress)

1980s

• 1989: A federal grand jury indicted Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer worm, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

2000s

• 2009: Jim Rice and Ricky Henderson were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame

2010s

• 2010: The Plastiki, a boat made mostly from recycled plastic bottles (12,500 of them), reached Sydney, Australia, to complete a 4-month journey across the Pacific Ocean