Your American History Reference Guide! - October 26
October 26
October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 66 days remaining.
Events
700-1899
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
Births
0-1599
1600-1899
1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir , Moldavian , 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, Titanic victim (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 )
1900-1999
1902 - Jack Sharkey , boxing champion (d. 1994 )
1906 - Primo Carnera , boxing champion (d. 1967 )
1911 - Sid Gilman , American football player, coach, manager (d. 2003 )
1911 - Mahalia Jackson , gospel singer (d. 1972 )
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 - Hillary Rodham Clinton , wife of former U.S. President Bill Clinton , Senator from New York
1947 - Jaclyn Smith , actress
1947 - Holly Woodlawn , actor
1951 - Bootsy Collins , American musician (P Funk )
1952 - Andrew Motion , poet
1953 - Keith Strickland , drummer (The B-52's )
1954 - D.W. Moffett , actor
1957 - Bob Golic , American football player
1958 - Rita Wilson , actress
1961 - Dylan McDermott , actor
1962 - Cary Elwes , British actor
1963 - Natalie Merchant , singer
1965 - Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing , Hong Kong , singer/actor
1967 - Keith Urban , country singer
1971 - Anthony Rapp , singer/actor
1973 - Seth MacFarlane , creator of Family Guy and American Dad .
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
External links
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