October 26

October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining.

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 - Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
1955 - Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself Premier of South Vietnam
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.
1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon
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.
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 - 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.


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