This Day in History

July 26th in History

France annexes Tahiti! G. B. Shaw, Carl Jung, Aldous Huxley, Gracie Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Mick Jagger, and Dorothy Hamill are born; Sam Houston, Winsor McCay, Eva Peron, George Gallup, and June Foray die. Happy Day of National Significance!

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Quote of the Day

“Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”

George Bernard Shaw, playwright, from his play "Caesar and Cleopatra" born July 26, 1856