Celebrated on the fourth Saturday in July, this is a day to explore cowboy culture and heritage and to acknowledge the contributions of cowboys and cowgirls across the United States
Daily Calendar for Saturday, July 26, 2025
Born
- George Bernard Shaw (playwright) –
- Blake Edwards (director) –
- Jason Robards (actor) –
- Stanley Kubrick (director) –
- Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (singer) –
- Dorothy Hamill (Olympic gold medal figure skater) –
- Sandra Bullock (actress) –
- Jeremy Piven (actor) –
- Kate Beckinsale (actress) –
Died
- Sam Houston (president of Texas, 1836-38; 1841-44) –
- Eva Peron (wife of Argentine President Juan Peron) –
Events
- Benjamin Franklin became the first Postmaster General –
- New York ratified the Constitution and became the 11th state –
- Black Bart made his first stagecoach robbery in California –
- The Potsdam Declaration was issued by President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan –
- The SS Andrea Doria sunk near Nantucket Lightship, MA –
- First Moon rock samples analyzed, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Houston, Texas –
- 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 –
- Jim Rice and Ricky Henderson were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame –
- 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 –
Weather
- Catskill, New York, and Westfield, Massachusetts, each got 15 inches of rain, causing flash floods and enormous erosion damage –
- The temperature in Salt Lake City soared to an all-time high of 107 degrees F –
- Eastport, Maine, the northeastern most tip of the U.S., reached 96 degrees –
