ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1775 Benjamin Franklin became postmaster-general.
1788 New York became the 11th state to ratify the Constitution.
1908 Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte issued an order creating an investigative agency that was a forerunner of the FBI.
1945 Winston Churchill resigned as Britain's prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labor Party. Clement Attlee became the new prime minister.
On July 26, 1947, President 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.
1948 President Harry S. Truman signed executive orders prohibiting discrimination in the U.S. armed forces and federal employment.
1952 Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1952 Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.
1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1953 Fidel Castro began a revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba.
1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
1964 Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
1986 Kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months.
1990 President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act.
1990 The House of Representatives reprimanded Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., for ethics violations.
1990 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a young woman, later identified as Kimberly Bergalis, had been infected with the AIDS virus, apparently by her dentist.
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.
Mick Jagger turns 62 years old today.
R&B singer Dobie Gray is 65
Roger Taylor of Queen is 56
Kevin Spacey is 46 today
Gary Cherone is 44
and Sandra Bullock turns 41 today
Have a great day all.
Tala, I like the skin as well. :D
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