Historically Speaking of July 26th

Today is the 207th day of the year– there are 158 days remaining in 2006…

Notable events from this date:

• 2005 - Mumbai, India receives nearly 40 inches of rain within 24 hours-shuts down the city
• 1996 - IBM wins $93 Million deal to build supercomputer for DOE
• 1956 - Egypt nationalizes Suez Canal touching off international incident
• 1947 - Harry Truman signs the National Security Act which established CIA
• 1945 - Winston Churchill resigns as Britain’s PM after Labour Party wins election
• 1945 - The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Germany – Japan surrenders in WW II
• 1908 - Office of the Chief Examiner is founded within DOJ, later it would become the FBI
• 1788 - New York ratifies the Constitution and becomes the 11th state admitted to the union

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