GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS SATURDAY, July 26, the 207th day of 2014 with 158 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:30 and sunset is @ 8:11. The moon is waning. The morning stars are stars are Mercury, Neptune, Uranus & Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mars & Saturn. ON THIS DAY IN: 1775 - The Continental Congress established a postal system for the colonies with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general. 1788 - New York became the eleventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America. 1847 - The Republic of Liberia, formerly a colony of the American Colonization Society, declared its independence. It was the first African colony to secure independence. 1908 - U.S. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte established the Office of the Chief Examine, which was the forerunner of the FBI. 1945 - In the 11th hour of World War II, Winston Churchill was forced to resign as British prime minister following his partys electoral defeat by the Labour Party. He became leader of the opposition and in 1951 was again elected prime minister. 1947 - President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. President Truman unified the Army and Navy under the Department of Defense . 1948 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, officially integrating the Armed Forces many years before the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. 1953 - Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl led a group of approximately 160 rebels in the Moncada Barracks attacks, widely accepted as the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. 1956 - The Suez Crisis began when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the British- and French-owned Suez Canal. 1974 - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee recommended impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon. 1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act. 2000 - A federal judge approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and more than a half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded money deposited by Holocaust victims.
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