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.

Contents

1 Events

1.1 700-1899
1.2 1900-1999
1.3 2000-2099

2 Births

2.1 0-1599
2.2 1600-1899
2.3 1900-1999

3 Deaths

4 Holidays

5 External links

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 - Following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, the last Allied troops leave the country. Austria declares its permanent neutrality.
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.
1984 - The Terminator is released in theaters nationwide.
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.
2002 - Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson get married in Austin, Texas.

Births

Deaths

899 - Alfred the Great
1440 - Gilles de Rais, serial killer
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada
1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist, suffragette
1909 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, former Japanese governor of Korea (assassinated)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball owner
1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, commander of Greater Poland Uprising in 1919 (b.1867)
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)
1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer
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 - National Holiday: Anniversary of the Austrian Declaration of Neutrality
Intersex Awareness Day
Angam Day in Nauru

External links

BBC: On This Day

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