July 26: The day Carl Jung was born

1847: The Republic of Liberia, formerly a colony of the American Colonisation Society, declared its independence.

• 1847: The Republic of Liberia, formerly a colony of the American Colonisation Society, declared its independence. Under pressure from Britain, the United States hesitantly accepted Liberian sovereignty, making the West African nation the first democratic republic in African history. A constitution modeled after the US Constitution was approved, and in 1848 Joseph Jenkins Roberts was elected Liberia's first president.

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• 1875: Birth of Carl (Gustav) Jung was a Swiss psychologist who proposed and developed the concepts of the extroverted and introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. The "father" of psychoanalysis, his work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion.

• 1908: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was born when US Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of newly hired federal investigators to report to chief examiner Stanley W Finch of the Department of Justice. One year later, the Office of the chief examiner was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and in 1935 it became the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

• 1943: Birth of Michael Phillip Jagger, later known simply as Mick. He dropped out of the London School of Economics to form the Rolling Stones with Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, and Brian Jones. The band cultivated a rebellious attitude that contrasted with the clean-cut sound of the Beatles and other groups in the early 1960s. The band continues to play and Mick is now Sir Mick.