Notable Historical Events on October 26th
October 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
740 |
An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death. |
1366 |
Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth |
1387 |
Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace |
1407 |
Mobs attack Jewish community of Kraków |
1492 |
Columbus' fleet anchors on Ragged Island Range, Bahamas |
1492 |
Lead pencils first used |
1524 |
Spanish troops give Milan to France |
1529 |
Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor of England |
1534 |
Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht |
1667 |
Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa) |
1674 |
Prince Willem III occupies Grave |
1682 |
William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York |
1749 |
Georgia Colony reverses itself & rules slavery is legal |
1774 |
First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia |
1774 |
Minute Men organized in colonies |
1776 |
Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. |
1787 |
"Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of United States' Constitution |
1795 |
Pinckney's Treaty between Spain & US is signed, establishing southern boundary of US & giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi |
1795 |
The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created. |
1810 |
US annexes western Florida |
1822 |
King Willem I requires inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language |
1825 |
Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened |
1830 |
Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp |
1858 |
Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine |
1859 |
The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead. |
1861 |
Pony Express ends |
1863 |
International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross |
1863 |
Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer, splitting with rugby |
1864 |
Union troops ambush & kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI |
1868 |
White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La |
1869 |
1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY) |
1876 |
President sends federal troops to SC |
1881 |
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton involved in gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Az |
1886 |
Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain" premieres in Russia |
1887 |
Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series |
1896 |
Abyssinia & Italy sign peace treaty |
1900 |
After 4 years of work, first section of New York subway opens |
1901 |
First recorded use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris |
1903 |
Yerba Buena is first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay |
1905 |
First Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia |
1905 |
Union of Sweden & Norway ends |
1909 |
Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, and former Japanese Prime Minister, shot and killed by Korean nationalist in Harbin, China |
1911 |
Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series |
1912 |
Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup) |
1912 |
Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens |
1913 |
Huerta elected president of Mexico |
1916 |
Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control) |
1917 |
Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military |
1917 |
World War I:Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers. |
1918 |
Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe |
1919 |
B C Hilliam's musical "Buddies" premieres in NYC |
1919 |
Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, premieres in Queen's Hall London |
1919 |
US President Woodrow Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden |
1921 |
Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia |
1922 |
Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists & Benito Mussolini |
1923 |
Dutch second Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote) |
1923 |
Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns |
1926 |
Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi" premieres in NYC |
1926 |
Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga") |
1927 |
Duke Ellington sings "Creole Love Song" |
1930 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek" premieres in Leningrad |
1931 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" premieres in NYC |
1933 |
French government of Serraut forms |
1934 |
While Wash player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's niece & adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox |
1939 |
Polish Jews forced into obligatory work service |
1940 |
The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight. |
1941 |
2Second meeting of partisans Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia |
1941 |
US savings bonds go on sale |
1942 |
Second day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal |
1942 |
Fourth day of battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough |
1942 |
Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes |
1943 |
World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil". |
1947 |
Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India |
1947 |
The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq. |
1949 |
US President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents |
1950 |
Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time (from Banks Island towards Melville Island) |
1950 |
630 Dutch volunteers depart for Korea |
1950 |
Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president |
1950 |
Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India |
1950 |
South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary |
1951 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m & 15 miles |
1951 |
Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden |
1951 |
Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister |
1952 |
Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts v India |
1953 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia |
1954 |
Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine |
1954 |
Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland", premieres on ABC |
1954 |
Trieste return to Italy. |
1955 |
First edition of "Village Voice" (NYC) published |
1955 |
British troops occupy Saudi Arabian oil field at Boeraimi |
1955 |
Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres |
1956 |
UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved |
1956 |
Vietnam promulgates its constitution |
1957 |
USSR fires defense minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov |
1958 |
PanAm flies first transatlantic jet trip-New York to Paris |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1960 |
AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins & announces franchises in LA & Wash DC for 1961 |
1961 |
First test flight of Saturn launch vehicle |
1962 |
The Beatles record "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why" |
1962 |
JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba |
1962 |
Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1963 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada |
1964 |
Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed. |
1965 |
Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace |
1965 |
Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang |
1966 |
First Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2 |
1966 |
US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die |
1967 |
Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne |
1968 |
First European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy |
1968 |
KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, CA (NBC) begins broadcastng |
1968 |
Soyuz 3 launched |
1968 |
George Foreman wins gold for USA at Mexico Olympic games (Heavyweight boxing) |
1969 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
1969 |
WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1970 |
"Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers |
1970 |
Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam |
1971 |
UN votes to replace Taiwan with China |
1971 |
An Assembly, attended only by Nationalist politicians, and acting as an alternative to Stormont, meet in Dungiven Castle |
1972 |
Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin |
1972 |
Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam |
1973 |
Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army |
1973 |
President Nixon released first White House tapes on Watergate scandal |
1973 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1973 |
Wings release "Helen Wheels" |
1974 |
Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers & MISL's Crunch |
1975 |
Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit US |
1975 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1975 |
Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball |
1975 |
Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America |
1976 |
Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa |
1976 |
Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic |
1977 |
5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise |
1977 |
Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of New York |
1977 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1977 |
The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination. |
1978 |
Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat named joint winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize |
1978 |
Independent Counsel Act is 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. |
1980 |
10th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3 |
1980 |
11th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:41 |
1980 |
St Louis Cards sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times |
1981 |
LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series |
1982 |
Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards |
1982 |
US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982 |
1983 |
Hugh Williams' "Pack of Lies" premieres in London |
1983 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984 |
Stephanie Fae Beauclair ("Baby Fae") gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days |
1985 |
-Nov 6] Hurricane Juan, kills 97 in US |
1985 |
On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series |
1985 |
Doug Harvey's #2 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens |
1986 |
"Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 6 performances |
1987 |
Dow Jones down 156.83 points |
1987 |
Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads |
1988 |
Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service |
1988 |
US-Soviet effort to free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK |
1992 |
The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum. |
1992 |
London Ambulance Service thrown into chaos after implementation of new CAD (Computer Aided Despatch system) which failed. |
1993 |
NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte |
1993 |
NJ Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993 |
1994 |
Jordan & Israel sign peace accord |
1995 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta. |
1996 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine |
1997 |
Bill Glasson wins Las Vegas Golf Invitational |
1997 |
Nichirei LPGA International |
1997 |
Raley's Gold Rush Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
World Series: Fla Marlins beat Cleve Indians, 4 games to 3 |
1999 |
Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament. |
2000 |
NY Yankees defeat NY Mets 4-1 to win their 3rd straight World Series championship, MVP: Derek Jeter, NY Yankees |
2000 |
Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï. Bret Hart retires. |
2001 |
The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. |
2002 |
Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before. |
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. |
2005 |
Chicago White Sox defeat Houston Astros 4-0 in baseball's World Series championship, MVP: Jermaine Dye, Chicago |
2012 |
64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes |
2012 |
41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana, Afghanistan |
2012 |
China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao |
2012 |
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million in damage |
2013 |
St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox to lead the MLB 2013 World Series 2-1 |
2014 |
Dilma Rousseff is re-elected President of Brazil |
2015 |
Airstrikes hit Doctors Without Borders clinic in Yemen |
2015 |
Outrage after South Carolina officer arrests student |
2015 |
Iran steps up its forces in Syria |
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