Daily Calendar for Sunday, July 26, 2026

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Benjamin Franklin became the first Postmaster General – 1775
New York ratified the Constitution and became the 11th state – 1788
Black Bart made his first stagecoach robbery in California – 1875
The Potsdam Declaration was issued by President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan – 1945
The SS Andrea Doria sunk near Nantucket Lightship, MA – 1956
First Moon rock samples analyzed, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Houston, Texas – 1969
Apollo 15 is launched, carrying astronauts Scott, Worden and Irwin to the moon’s surface, where they will perform experiments and explore in the lunar rover. – 1971
A federal grand jury indicted Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer worm, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – 1989
Jim Rice and Ricky Henderson were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame – 2009
The Plastiki, a boat made mostly from recycled plastic bottles (12,500 of them), reached Sydney, Australia, to complete a 4-month journey across the Pacific Ocean – 2010

Catskill, New York, and Westfield, Massachusetts, each got 15 inches of rain, causing flash floods and enormous erosion damage – 1819
The temperature in Salt Lake City soared to an all-time high of 107 degrees F – 1960
Eastport, Maine, the northeastern most tip of the U.S., reached 96 degrees – 1963