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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Jul 1924 | Elias Motsoaledi: South African Umkhonto we Sizwe-commandant | |||
| 26 Jul 1924 | John Kilgour: Director of Prison Medical Services (Home Office) | |||
| 26 Jul 1924 | Louis Bellson: Rock Falls, Illinois -- Orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show) | |||
| 26 Jul 1924 | WW2 | HMS Hermes participated in a fleet review in Spithead in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. | ||
| 26 Jul 1924 | Louis Bellson Rock Falls Ill, orch leader (Pearl Bailey Show) | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Jul 1949 | William M Shepherd: Oak Ridge, Tennessee -- Captain US Navy / Astronaut (STS 27, 41, 52) | |||
| 26 Jul 1949 | WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting | |||
| 26 Jul 1949 | Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai businessman and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Thailand | |||
| 26 Jul 1949 | Roger Taylor, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Queen, The Cross, and Smile) | |||
| 26 Jul 1949 | birth Roger Taylor, drums, vocals, Queen, (1975 UK No.1 single 'Bohemian Rhapsody' also UK No.1 in 1991, plus over 40 other UK Top 40 singles, 1980 US No.1 single 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'). Also a member of The Cross. | |||
| 26 Jul 1949 | Roger Taylor rocker (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody) | |||
| 26 Jul 1949 | William M Shepherd Oak Ridge Tenn, Capt USN/astronaut (STS-27, 41) | |||
| 26 Jul 1949 | C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1951 Lick | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Jul 1974 | Bubba Wells: NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks) | |||
| 26 Jul 1974 | Arthur K Watson: US businessman (IBM), dies at 55 | |||
| 26 Jul 1974 | Charlotte MT "Lotte" Bartschart: Actress (Dolle Lola), dies at 82 | |||
| 26 Jul 1974 | Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player | |||
| 26 Jul 1974 | Dean Sturridge, English footballer | |||
| 26 Jul 1974 | Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule. | |||
| 26 Jul 1974 | Graffiti artists were hired to spray paint sites in London to promote the UK release of The Rolling Stones new single 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll'. | |||
| 26 Jul 1974 | The Allman Brothers appeared at Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts with The Eagles as the support band. | |||
| 26 Jul 1974 | USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3 | |||
| 26 Jul 1974 |
Aspartame In 1974, aspartame artificial sweetener was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Objections were raised about its safety, and the FDA issued a stay on 5 Dec 1975 after which followed several more years of tests, studies and scrutiny. Finally, it was approved on 22 Oct 1981 for permitted uses that included in candy, tablets, breakfast cereals, instant coffee and tea, gelatines, and chewing gum, among others. Years earlier, in Dec 1965, while working on an ulcer drug, James M. Schlatter had made the discovery that a mixture of two amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalamine, had a sweet taste. By weight it was about 200 times sweeter than sugar, with very few calories. G.D. Seale marketed it as NutraSweet, a low-calorie artificial sweetener without the bitter aftertaste of saccharin. |
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| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Jul 1999 | Walter Jackson Bate, American author and critic (b. 1918) | |||
| 26 Jul 1999 | Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1917) | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Jul 2004 | William A. Mitchell, American chemist, created Pop Rocks and Cool Whip (b. 1911) | |||
| 26 Jul 2004 |
death William A. Mitchell Died 26 Jul 2004 at age 92 (born 21 Oct 1911). American food scientist who invented Pop Rocks candy, Cool Whip, the orange drink mix Tang, and quick-set Jell-O Gelatin. He developed a tapioca substitute during WW II since tapioca itself was limited in supply. For 35 years, he worked worked as a chemist for General Foods Corp, and held more than 70 patents. Pop Rocks exploding candy was patented in 1956, but not marketed until 1975. Its novelty quickly caught the public's attention. It was an accidental discovery while experimenting to produce an instant soft drink. It is a hard candy manufactured by pressurizing carbon dioxide at 600 psi in a candy syrup at 150 °C. When cooled and solidified it traps small pockets of carbon dioxide that “explode” in a person's mouth. |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Jul 2009 | Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919) | |||
| 26 Jul 2009 | Marcey Jacobson, American-Mexican photographer (b. 1911) | |||
| 26 Jul 2009 | AC/DC singer Brian Johnson appeared as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car on the BBC television programme Top Gear. His time of 1:45.9 tied him with Simon Cowell for the second fastest time. He was introduced by host Jeremy Clarkson as "a man who has sold more albums than The Beatles, and I bet almost none of [the audience] have ever heard of him." | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Jul 2014 | Oleh Babayev, Ukrainian politician (b. 1965) | |||
| 26 Jul 2014 | Charles R. Larson, American admiral (b. 1936) | |||
| 26 Jul 2014 | Richard MacCormac, English architect, founded MJP Architects (b. 1938) | |||
| 26 Jul 2014 | Sergei O. Prokofieff, Russian anthroposophist and author (b. 1954) | |||
| 26 Jul 2014 | Roland Verhavert, Belgian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927) | |||
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