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== Events == |
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* [[740]] - An [[earthquake]] strikes [[Constantinople]], causing much damage and death. |
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*[[1640]] - The [[Treaty of Ripon]] is signed, restoring peace between [[Scotland]] and [[Charles I of England]]. |
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*[[1774]] - The first [[Continental Congress]] adjourns in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. |
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*[[1776]] - [[Benjamin Franklin]] departed from America for [[France]] on a mission to seek French support for the [[American Revolution]]. |
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*[[1795]] - The [[French Directory]], a five-man revolutionary government, is created. |
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*[[1825]] - The [[Erie Canal]] opens - passage from [[Albany, New York]] to [[Lake Erie]]. |
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*[[1859]] - The [[Royal Charter (ship)|Royal Charter]] is wrecked on the coast of [[Anglesey]], north [[Wales]] with 459 dead. |
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*[[1860]] - Meeting of [[Teano]]. [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]], conqueror of the [[Kingdom of Two Sicilies]], gives it to King [[Victor Emmanuel II of Italy]]. |
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*[[1861]] - The [[Pony Express]] officially ceased operations. |
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*[[1863]] - [[The Football Association]] is formed. |
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*[[1881]] - The [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] takes place at [[Tombstone, Arizona]]. |
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*[[1905]] - [[Norway]] becomes independent from [[Sweden]]. |
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*[[1912]] - [[First Balkan War]]: The city of [[Thessaloniki]] is unified with [[Greece]] on the [[feast day]] of its [[patron Saint]] [[Saint Demetrius|Demetrius]]. On the same day the [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbian]] troops captured [[Skopje]]. |
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*[[1917]] - [[World War I]]: [[Battle of Caporetto]]; [[Italy]] suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of [[Austria-Hungary]] and [[Germany]]. |
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* 1917 - [[World War I]]:[[Brazil]] [[History of Brazil (1889–1930)#Brazil in World War I| declared in state of war]] with [[Central Powers]]. |
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*[[1918]] - [[Erich Ludendorff]], quartermaster-general of the [[German Army (German Empire)|Imperial German Army]], is dismissed by [[Kaiser]] [[William II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II]] of [[Germany]] for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations. |
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*[[1936]] - The first [[electric generator]] at [[Hoover Dam]] went into full operation. |
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*[[1940]] - The [[P-51 Mustang]] makes its maiden flight. |
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*[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: In the [[Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands]] during the [[Guadalcanal Campaign]], one U.S. aircraft carrier, [[USS Hornet (CV-8)|''Hornet'']], was sunk and another aircraft carrier, [[USS Enterprise (CV-6)|''Enterprise'']], is heavily damaged. |
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*[[1943]] - World War II: First flight of the [[Dornier Flugzeugwerke|Dornier]] [[Dornier Do 335|Do 335]] "Pfeil". |
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*[[1944]] - World War II: The [[Battle of Leyte Gulf]] ends. |
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*[[1947]] - The [[Maharaja]] of [[Kashmir]] agrees to allow his kingdom to join [[India]]. |
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*[[1947]] - The British Military Occupation ends in [[Iraq]]. |
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*[[1948]] - [[air pollution|Killer smog]] settles into [[Donora, Pennsylvania]]. |
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*[[1951]] - [[Boxer]] [[Joe Louis]] comes out of retirement to fight [[Rocky Marciano]]. However, Marciano would win the fight in eight rounds. |
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*[[1954]] - [[Trieste]] return to [[Italy]]. |
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*[[1955]] - After the last [[Allied]] troops have left the country and following the provisions of the [[Austrian Independence Treaty]], Austria declares [[neutral country|permanent neutrality]]. |
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* 1955 - [[Ngo Dinh Diem|Ngô Đình Diệm]] declares himself Premier of [[South Vietnam]]. |
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*[[1958]] - [[Pan American World Airways|Pan American Airways]] makes the first commercial flight of the [[Boeing 707]] from [[New York City]] to [[Paris, France]]. |
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*[[1964]] - [[Eric Edgar Cooke]] becomes last person in [[Western Australia]] to be executed. |
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*[[1965]] - [[The Beatles]] are appointed [[British honours system|Members of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBEs). |
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*[[1977]] - The last natural case of [[smallpox]] was discovered in Merca district, [[Somalia]]. The [[World Health Organization|WHO]] and the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]] consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of [[vaccination]]. |
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*[[1978]] - [[Independent Counsel Act]] is signed into law. |
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*[[1979]] - [[Park Chung-hee]], [[President of South Korea]] is [[Park Chung-hee assassination|assassinated]] by [[KCIA]] head [[Kim Jae-kyu]]. [[Choi Kyu-ha]] becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following [[May]]. |
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*[[1984]] - "[[Baby Fae]]" receives a [[heart transplant]] from a [[baboon]]. |
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*[[1992]] - The command and control system of the [[London Ambulance Service]] fails catastrophically. |
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* 1992 - The [[Charlottetown Accord]] fails to win majority support in a [[Canada]] wide [[referendum]]. |
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*[[1994]] - [[Jordan]] and [[Israel]] sign a peace treaty. |
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* 1994 - Announcement that [[Andrew Wiles]] correctly proved [[Fermat's last theorem]]. |
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*[[1995]] - [[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]: [[Mossad]] agents assassinate [[Islamic Jihad]] leader [[Fathi Shikaki]] in his hotel in [[Malta]]. |
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*[[1999]] - [[United Kingdom|Britain's]] [[House of Lords]] votes to end the right of [[hereditary peer]]s to vote in Britain's upper chamber of [[Parliament]]. |
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*[[2000]] - [[Laurent Gbagbo]] takes over as president of [[Côte d'Ivoire]] following a popular uprising against President [[Robert Guéï]]. |
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*[[2001]] - The [[United States]] passes the [[USA PATRIOT Act]] into law. |
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*[[2002]] - [[Moscow Theatre Siege]]: Approximately 50 [[Chechnya|Chechen]] rebels and 150 hostages die when [[Russia]]n [[Spetsnaz]] storm a theater building in [[Moscow]], which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before. |
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*[[2003]] - The [[Cedar Fire]], the second-largest fire in [[California]] history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around [[San Diego]]. |
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*[[2007]] - [[Apple Inc.]] releases its newest version of [[Mac OS X]]. |
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== Births == |
== Births == |
Revision as of 00:49, 8 April 2008
October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 66 days remain until the end of the year.
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Births
- 1427 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
- 1473 - Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
- 1491 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
- 1609 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
- 1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian prince, linguist, and scholar (d. 1723)
- 1684 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
- 1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
- 1694 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
- 1757 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
- 1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
- 1768 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
- 1794 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
- 1795 - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (d. 1872)
- 1797 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (d. 1865)
- 1800 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
- 1802 - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
- 1842 - Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
- 1849 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
- 1854 - C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
- 1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
- 1869 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
- 1871 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (d. 1941)
- 1873 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
- 1874 - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, socialite and philanthropist (d. 1948)
- 1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
- 1880 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
- 1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
- 1888 - Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934)
- 1899 - Judy Johnson Hall of Fame baseball player in the Negro Leagues (d. 1989)
- 1902 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer (d. 1994)
- 1905 - George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal (d. 1989)
- 1906 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967)
- 1911 - Sid Gilman, American football player (d. 2003)
- 1911 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
- 1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
- 1912 - Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
- 1913 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1991)
- 1914 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1915 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
- 1916 - François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
- 1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
- 1921 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968)
- 1925 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch author (d. 2007)
- 1928 - Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artists
- 1929 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
- 1934 - Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia)
- 1936 - Shelley Morrison, American actress
- 1941 - Charlie Landsborough, Singer/Songwriter
- 1942 - Bob Hoskins, British actor
- 1945 - Pat Conroy, American writer
- 1945 - Jaclyn Smith, American actress
- 1945 - Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author
- 1946 - Pat Sajak, American game show host
- 1946 - Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress
- 1946 - Keith Hopwood, British musician (Herman's Hermits)
- 1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator
- 1947 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
- 1947 - Ian Ashley, British racing driver
- 1948 - Toby Harrah, American Major League Baseball player
- 1949 - Steve Rogers, Major League Baseball pitcher
- 1951 - Bootsy Collins, American musician (P Funk)
- 1952 - Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate
- 1953 - Rosa Monckton, notable charity fundraiser
- 1953 - Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52's)
- 1954 - Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer
- 1956 - Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman
- 1956 - Rita Wilson, American actress
- 1957 - Bob Golic, American football player
- 1959 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
- 1959 - François Chau, Cambodian actor
- 1959 - Brian Bovell, British actor
- 1961 - Dylan McDermott, American actor
- 1962 - Cary Elwes, British actor
- 1963 - Natalie Merchant, American singer
- 1963 - Ted Demme, American film and television director (d. 2002)
- 1964 - Thomas Cavanagh, Canadian actor
- 1965 - Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer
- 1965 - Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer.
- 1966 - Jane Hajduk, American actress
- 1966 - Steve Valentine, British actor
- 1966 - Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
- 1966 - Masaharu Iwata, Japanese composer
- 1967 - Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
- 1970 - Lisa Ryder, American actress
- 1970 - Dian Bachar, American actor
- 1970 - Raveena Tandon, Indian actress
- 1971 - Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor
- 1973 - Seth MacFarlane, American animator
- 1973 - Taka Michinoku , Japanese professional wrestle
- 1974 - LISA, Japanese musician
- 1976 - Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
- 1977 - Jon Heder, American actor
- 1978 - Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer
- 1978 - Mark Barry, English musician (BBMak)
- 1978 - CM Punk, American professional wrestler
- 1978 - Eva Kaili, Greek TV presenter and politician
- 1979 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (d. 2002)
- 1980 - Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
- 1981 - Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
- 1981 - Sam Brown, American comedian
- 1982 - Adam Carroll, British racing driver
- 1983 - Dmitri Sychev, Russian football player
- 1983 - Francisco Liriano, Major League Baseball pitcher
- 1983 - Luke Watson, South African rugby player
- 1984 - Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
- 1984 - Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
- 1984 - Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 - Amanda Overmyer, American Singer, American Idol Season 7
- 1985 - Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
- 1985 - Monta Ellis, American basketball player
- 1985 - Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
- 1987 - Elise Estrada, Canadian singer
Deaths
- 899 - Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849)
- 1235 - King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
- 1440 - Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
- 1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
- 1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
- 1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
- 1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
- 1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
- 1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
- 1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
- 1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
- 1773 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
- 1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
- 1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
- 1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
- 1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
- 1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
- 1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
- 1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
- 1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
- 1909 - Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister, de facto Resident-General of Korea (b. 1841)
- 1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
- 1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
- 1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
- 1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
- 1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
- 1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
- 1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
- 1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
- 1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
- 1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
- 1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
- 1956 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (b. 1895)
- 1957 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
- 1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
- 1962 - Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902)
- 1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
- 1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
- 1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (b. 1889)
- 1978 - Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (b. 1904)
- 1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
- 1984 - Gus Mancuso, baseball player (b. 1905)
- 1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
- 1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
- 1994 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929)
- 1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
- 1999 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
- 2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
- 2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
- 2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (b. 1958)
- 2006 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
- 2007 - Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
- 2007 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
- 2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
- 2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances
- Roman festivals - first day of Ludi Victoriae Sullanae (until 1 November)
- R.C. Saints - October 26th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
- St. Albinus
- St. Alfred the Great
- St. Cedd
- St. Cuthbert of Canterbury
- St. Demetrius (aka St. Dimitrios) of Thessaloniki
- St. Fulk
- St. Quadragesimus
- Austria - National Day: Anniversary of the Declaration of Neutrality (1955)
- Nauru - Angam Day