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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.
   * 1664 - Royal Marines are formed
   * 1825 - Erie Canal opened
   * 1863 - The Football Association is formed
   * 1863 - International Federation of the Red Cross is formed
   * 1881 - The Gunfight at the O. K. Corral
   * 1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf ends
   * 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
   * 1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon
   * 1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary
     peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament
   * 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
   * 1905 - Norway becomes independent from Sweden
   * 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

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