July 26

Today in History
• 1499 - Spanish conquistador Alonso de Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
• 1529 - Francisco Pizarro appointed Governor of Peru
• 1609 - English mathematician Thomas Harriot is the first person to draw a map of the Moon
• 1759 - 11,000 British troops drive a French garrison out of Fort Ticonderoga, New York
• 1775 - US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office
• 1805 - Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
• 1835 - 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
• 1847 - Moses Gerrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Fiesta de Santa Ana (Nicaragua)
• Holistic Therapy Day
• Kharchi Puja
• Liberia Independence Day
• Maldives Independence Day
• National Rebellion Day (Cuba)
• National Coffee Milkshake Day
• National Disability Independence Day

Birthdays
• 1467 - Ferdinand II, King of Naples (1495-96)
• 1678 - Joseph I Habsburg, German king and Roman Catholic emperor
• 1739 - George Clinton, New York, D-R, 4th Vice President, 1805-12
• 1799 - Isaac Babbitt, American goldsmith who invented babbitt's metal for bearings
• 1801 - John Drake Sloat, 1st Military Governor of California
• 1802 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (1851-53)
• 1829 - Auguste Beernaert, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium (1884-94)
• 1908 - Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president, 1970-73