October 26

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October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining.

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Events

700-1899

• 740 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
• 1640 - The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England
• 1795 - The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created
• 1863 - The Football Association is formed
• 1881 - The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.

1900-1999

• 1905 - Norway becomes independent from Sweden
• 1917 - Battle of Caporetto: Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the hands of Germany and Austria during the First World War
• 1918 - Erich von Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
• 1944 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends.
• 1944 - Vice president Harry Truman publicly denies ever having been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
• 1947 - The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India
• 1948 - Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
• 1955 - Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself Premier of South Vietnam
• 1958 - First commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York to Paris
• 1965 - The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs)
• 1976 - Transkei declares its "independence" from South Africa
• 1978 - Independent Counsel Act signed into law
• 1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
• 1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon
• 1984 - John D. McCollum shoots and kills himself after spending a day listening to Ozzy Osbourne records; a lawsuit is later filed by his parents over the song "Suicide Solution", but the case eventually gets thrown out.

1985 - In the movie Back to the Future, scientist Dr. Emmett Brown breaks the time barrier in Hill Valley, California.

• 1991 - Lori Keevil-Matthews is killed after a 485-pound umbrella slams her against a boulder in a Christo art installation.
• 1994 - Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
• 1994 - Announcement of Andrew Wiles correct proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
• 1995 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
• 1997 - The left arms of Chen Ming-Kuo and Yang Chung-ming are amputated by the rope in a 1,500-person tug-of-war contest in Taipei; both arms are successfully reattached later on.
• 1997 - Basketball player Charles Barkley is charged with aggravated battery and resisting arrest after throwing Jorge Lugo through a plate glass window in a dance club in Orlando, Florida.
• 1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.

2000-2099

• 2000 - Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï
• 2001 - The United States passes the controversial USA Patriot Act into law.
• 2002 - Moscow Theater Siege ends: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian commandos storm the House of Culture theater in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels three days before.

Births

1600-1899

• 1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavien, writer, domnitor (d. 1723)
• 1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
• 1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, leader of the French Revolution (d. 1794)
• 1854 - C. W. Post, cereal entrepreneur (d. 1914)
• 1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, businessman, went down on Titanic (d. 1912)
• 1873 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
• 1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
• 1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
• 1902 - Jack Sharkey, boxing champion (d. 1994)

1900-1999

• 1906 - Primo Carnera, boxing champion (d. 1967)
• 1911 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (d. 1972)
• 1911 - Sid Gilman, American football player, coach, manager (d. 2003)
• 1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scots Gaelic poet (d. 1996)
• 1912 - Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
• 1914 - Jackie Coogan, actor (d. 1984)
• 1916 - François Mitterrand, French president (d. 1996)
• 1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, shah of Iran (d. 1980)
• 1932 - Eidegenegen Eidagaruwo, first Angam Baby
• 1942 - Bob Hoskins, actor
• 1945 - Pat Conroy, novelist
• 1946 - Pat Sajak, game show host
• 1947 - Jaclyn Smith, actress
• 1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of former President of the United States, Senator from New York
• 1947 - Holly Woodlawn, actor
• 1951 - Bootsy Collins, American musician (P Funk)
• 1953 - Keith Strickland, drummer (The B-52's)
• 1954 - D.W. Moffett, actor
• 1958 - Rita Wilson, actress
• 1961 - Dylan McDermott, actor
• 1962 - Cary Elwes, British actor
• 1963 - Natalie Merchant, singer

Deaths

• 1440 - Gilles de Rais, serial killer
• 1764 - William Hogarth, British painter
• 1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada
• 1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist, suffragette
• 1909 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, former Japanese governor of Korea (assassinated)
• 1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball owner
• 1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, Rector of Hexham Abbey and St Bartholomew the Great
• 1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer
• 1956 - Walter Gieseking, French conductor (b. 1895)
• 1972 - Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer
• 1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea
• 1986 - Jackson Scholz, American sprinter
• 1991 - Bill Graham, rock and roll entrepreneur
• 1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
• 1999 - Hoyt Axton, musician
• 2002 - Jacques Massu, French general

Holidays

• 1955 - Anniversary of the Austrian day of independence
• Intersex Awareness Day
• Angam Day in Nauru

October 25 - October 27 - November 26 - September 26 - more historical anniversaries

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