Today in History: July 26, Americans with Disabilities Act signed into law

Nowadays is Saturday July the th day of There are days left in the year The present day in history On July President George H W Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibiting discrimination based on mental or physical disabilities Also on this date In the Continental Congress established a Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin its Postmaster-General Related Articles Southwest Airlines flight headed to Las Vegas takes dramatic plunge in response to nearby aircraft Maui panel passes bill to curb vacation rentals and boost housing supply after Lahaina wildfire Epstein ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell finishes interviews with Justice Department bureaucrats In Epstein furor Trump struggles to shake off a disagreement his allies once stoked Why isn t he paying Trump s golf visit to cost Scottish taxpayers In the western African country of Liberia founded by freed American slaves declared its independence In Sam Houston former president of the Republic of Texas died in Huntsville at age In Winston Churchill resigned as Britain s prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labour Party Clement Attlee succeeded him In President Harry S Truman signed the National Safety Act which reorganized America s armed forces as the National Military Establishment and created the Central Intelligence Agency In President Truman issued Executive Order which desegregated the U S military In Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista fool-HEN -see-oh bah-TEES -tah with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba Castro ousted Batista in In Apollo was launched from Cape Kennedy on America s fourth accomplished manned mission to the moon In the Republican-led House voted to create an enormous Homeland Safeguard Department in the biggest establishment reorganization in decades In Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia In the last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed for a series of crimes in the s including a gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed people Previously seven other cult members were executed on July of that year In a procession with the casket of the late U S Rep John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama where Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten years earlier The present day s Birthdays Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is Football Hall of Famer Bob Lilly is Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love is The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger is Actor Helen Mirren is Rock musician Roger Taylor Queen is Olympic gold medal figure skater Dorothy Hamill is Actor Kevin Spacey is Actor Sandra Bullock is Actor Jeremy Piven is Actor Jason Statham is Actor Olivia Williams is Actor Kate Beckinsale is Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is Actor Juliet Rylance is Actor Monica Raymund is Actor Francia Raisa is Actor-singer Taylor Momsen is Actor Elizabeth Gillies is Actor Thomasin McKenzie is