July 26, 2022
QUOTE
I think there’s so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren’t even worth talking about.
--Gracie Allen
BIRTHDAYS
1895 – Gracie Allen, Actress and comedian
1909 – Vivian Vance, Actress and singer
1922 – Blake Edwards, Director, producer, and screenwriter
1928 – Stanley Kubrick, Director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1945 – Helen Mirren, Actress
1964 – Sandra Bullock, Actress and producer
IN MEMORY
1611 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese daimyō
1863 – Sam Houston, General and politician, 7th Governor of Texas
1925 – William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State
1926 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln
1932 – Fred Duesenberg, Businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Company
2020 – Olivia de Havilland, Actress
IN ON THIS DAY
1579 – Francis Drake, the English explorer, discovers a major bay (San Francisco) on the coast of California.
1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1945 – The USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with components and enriched uranium for the Little Boy nuclear bomb.