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
- 740 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
- 1863 - The Football Association is formed
- 1863 - International Federation of the Red Cross is formed
- 1881 - The Gunfight at the O. K. Corral
- 1905 - Norway becomes independent from Sweden
- 1936 - The first generator goes online at Boulder Dam.
- 1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf ends
- 1948 - Heavy air pollution in Donora, Pennsylvania kills 20 by October 31
- 1955 - Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself Premier of South Vietnam
- 1965 - The Beatles receive MBE Members of the British Empire recognition
- 1976 - Transkei declares its "independence" from South Africa
- 1978 - Independent Counsel Act signed into law
- 1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon
- 1994 - Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
- 1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament
- 2001 - The United States passes the controversial USA Patriot Act into law.
- 2002 - 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
- 1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer
- 1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, leader of the French Revolution
- 1854 - Charles Post, cereal entrepreneur
- 1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, businessman, went down on Titanic († 1912)
- 1873 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark († 1942)
- 1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist
- 1902 - Jack Sharkey, boxing champion († 1994)
- 1906 - Primo Carnera, boxing champion († 1967)
- 1911 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer († 1972)
- 1911 - Sid Gilman, American football player, coach, manager
- 1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scots Gaelic poet
- 1912 - Don Siegel, American director
- 1914 - Jackie Coogan, actor († 1984)
- 1916 - [[Fran�ois Mitterrand]], French president († 1996)
- 1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, shah of Iran († 1980)
- 1942 - Bob Hoskins, actor
- 1945 - Pat Conroy, novelist
- 1946 - Pat Sajak, game show host
- 1946 - Ivan Reitman, actor, writer, director
- 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-52s)
- 1954 - D.W. Moffett, actor
- 1958 - Rita Wilson, actress
- 1961 - Cylan McDermott, actor
- 1962 - Cary Elwes, British actor
- 1963 - Natalie Merchant, singer
- 1978 - David Weekly
Deaths
- 1764 - William Hogarth, British painter
- 1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada
- 1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist, suffragette
- 1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball owner
- 1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer
- 1972 - Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer
- 1975 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist
- 1979 - Park Chung-hee, president of South Korea
- 1991 - Bill Graham, rock and roll entrepreneur
- 1999 - Hoyt Axton, musician
- 2002 - Jacques Massu, French general
Holidays
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
October 25 - October 27 - November 26 - September 26 - more historical anniversaries
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "October 26" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_26 October 26, 2003
