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| July 26 is the 208th day of the year. There are 158 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1267 Inquisition forms in Rome under pope Clement IV |
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| 1835 1st sugar cane plantation starts in Hawaii. Looks like plantations everywhere else if you ask me. |
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| 1860 [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico, dissolves the United States of America |
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| 1887 Unua libro en Esperanto estas eldon |
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| 1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War. |
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| 1948 U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States thereby ending the notorious longstanding Don’t Need to Ask, Don’t Need to Tell Because It’s Pretty Damned Obvious policy. |
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| 1956 Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation. Oh Nasser, you’re such a cut-up! |
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| 1989 A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. According to all reports, Morris' worm is pretty impressive. |
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| 1856 George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright who used his works to cover examinations of social problems with wit and style/co-founder, London School of Economics/Nobel Laureate/Academy Award recipient |
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| 1893 George Grosz, maybe gay German-born US dadaist, changed his style when he left Berlin (while the getting out was good) for the USA |
1940 Dobie Gray, maybe gay US singer
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| 1943 Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, maybe bisexual English singer/The Rolling Stones |
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| 1949 Clay Russell/David Grant, gay US pornographic actor/model |
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| 1959 Kevin Spacey [Kevin Matthew Fowler]- maybe gay US actor |
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| 1965 Jeremy Piven, US actor |
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| 1966 Jay Huguley, US actor |
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| 1968 Frederic Diefenthal, French actor |
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| 1968 Arnd Klawitter, German actor |
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| 1969 Hubertus Regout, maybe gay Belgian actor |
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| 1972 Flavio César, Mexican singer/actor |
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| 1975 Ben Cotton, Canadian actor |
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| 1975 Fabrice Fiorese, French soccer player/Dieux du Stade model |
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| 1976 Jorge Santos, maybe gay US dancer |
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| 1983 Roderick Strong [Chris Lindsey], maybe gay US professional wrestler |
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| 1984 Benjamin Kayser, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model |
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| 1984 Kyriakos Ioannau, Greek-Cypriot athlete |
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| 1985 Matt Riddlehoover, gay US actor/director |
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| 1985 Gael Clichy, French soccer player |
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| 1863 Samuel Houston, 1st President of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), no longer remembers the Alamo |
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| 1995 George W. Romney, US businessman/politician/sperm donor, fords the great divide |
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| 2007 John Normington, gay English actor (Rollerball, Medusa Touch, Atonement), takes more than a day out |
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