Castro lambasts Bush
1990 - Cuban President Fidel Castro has accused US President George Bush of being obsessed with Cuba even in his sleep and warned Havana could “even get them dancing the Lambada at the White House” if it retaliated against hostile American broadcasts. Castro said a mass rally in Havana that since the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, Washington no longer considered the Soviet Union and its former East Bloc allies as enemies. “So that only leaves us, all the attention is concentrated on Cuba,” the Cuban leader said at the rally held to mark the Communist island’s July 26 Revolution Day. Castro said: “When Mr Bush has breakfast, he tastes Cuba in his coffee and his bread, he can’t forget Cuba either asleep or awake.”
July 26
1835 - The first sugarcane plantation in Hawaii starts.
1847 - Liberia declares its independence.
1865 - Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first African American to earn a PhD.
1891 - France annexes South Pacific island of Tahiti.
1908 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is formed in US.
1920 - The 19th Amendment to the American constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
1945 - Winston Churchill resigns as Britain’s Prime Minister following his party’s electoral defeat.
1956 - Egypt nationalises the Suez Canal.
1965 - Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain.
1990 - Iraq agrees to pull thousands of troops back from Kuwaiti border after Kuwait agrees to cut oil production.
1997 - Sri Lanka wins Asia Cup after beating India by eight wickets in the final.
2001 - Indonesia’s ousted President Abdul Rahman Wahid vacates the palace and leaves the country.
2003 - Three powerful earthquakes strike northern Japan and at least 421 people are injured.
2008 - More than 55 are killed and many injured when 16 bomb blasts hit Ahmedabad, India.
2009 - India’s first nuclear submarine is unveiled to the public.
2010 - A suspected Al Qaida suicide bomber blows up a car by the Baghdad office of Al Arabiya television, killing four people.
2011 - All 80 passengers of a military plane are killed when it crashes into a mountain in southern Morocco.
2013 - Fifty-seven people are killed in twin bomb blasts in a busy market in northwest Pakistan.
