Thursday, July 26, 2007, #141 (1408)

Today in history

1788 - New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States
1887 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language"
1945 - The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power
1947 - Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council
1953 - Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution
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
1991 - Paul "Peewee Herman" Reubens is arrested in a Sarasota, Florida theater for exposing himself
1994 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin accepts to retire Russian troops from Estonia
2005 - Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003

Birthdays

1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1950)
1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1945 - Helen Mirren, English actress
1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
1964 - Sandra Bullock, American actress

Georgian words of the day

resort - kurorti
vacation - shvebuleba
hotel - sastumro sastumro
excursion – ekskursia

Where do you plan to go on vacation?
dasasveneblad sad apireb tsasvlas?



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