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Today in History ~ October 26
Events1407 - Mobs attack Jewish community of Kracow
1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors on Ragged Island Range, Bahamas
1492 - Lead pencils 1st used
1529 - Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor
1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France
1682 - William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
1749 - Georgia Colony reverses itself & rules slavery is legal
1774 - 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1774 - Minute Men organized in colonies
1774 - The First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia.
1787 - "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution
1795 - Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and US is signed, establishing southern boundary of US and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River. [H]
1858 - Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine
1861 - Pony Express ends
1863 - Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1868 - White trash terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish LA
1876 - President sends federal troops to SC
1881 - The "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" took place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang. Three members of Clanton's gang were killed; Earp's brothers were wounded. [H]
1900 - After 4 years of work, 1st section of NY subway opens
1901 - 1st use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1905 - 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1919 - Elgar's "Cello Concerto" premieres in Queen's Hall London
1919 - President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
1922 - Italian govt resigns under pressure from fascists & Benito Mussolini
1931 - Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," premieres in NYC
1934 - While Wash player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson, owner Clark Griffith's niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to the Red Sox
1938 - Du Pont named its new synthetic fiber "nylon"
1939 - Polish Jews forced into obligatory work service
1941 - US savings bonds go on sale
1942 - 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1942 - 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
1942 - Japanese warships sank the aircraft carrier USS Hornet off the Solomon Islands in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during World War II, USS South Dakota shoots down a record 32 enemy planes
1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf Ends [H]
1949 - President Truman signed a measure raising the minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents an hour.
1950 - Mother Teresa founds her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1951 - Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1951 - Winston Churchill re-elected British PM
1954 - Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine
1954 - Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1955 - 1st edition of "Village Voice" (NYC) published
1955 - Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as the president
1956 - International Atomic Energy Agency established.
1957 - The Soviet Union announced that defense minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov had been relieved of his duties.
1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in eight hours and 41 minutes.
1962 - JFK warns Russia US will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey -- offer is rejected
1965 - Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
1966 - US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonkin, 43 die
1967 - The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
1970 - "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
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 releases 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal
1975 - Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to pay an official visit to the United States.
1976 - Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
1979 - South Korean President Park Chung Hee was assassinated by the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
1984 - "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
1987 - Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
1988 - US-Soviet effort frees 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic near Barrow, AK
1990 - Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $5,000 for his conviction on misdemeanor drug charges.
1991: Former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, Va., to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession.
1994 -Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty at a desert site along the Israeli-Jordanian border.
1995 - Islamic Jihad leader Fathi ash-Shiqaqi was assassinated in Malta.
1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin was hospitalized with heart trouble for the second time in less than four months.
1996 - Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing, ending a three-month ordeal for the former security guard.
1996 - The New York Yankees won their first World Series since 1978, defeating the Atlanta Braves 3-to-2 in game six.
1998 - Just one day before threatened NATO air strikes were to begin, Serbian soldiers and police began what was said to be a significant pullback from positions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, where they were massacring ethnic Albanians.
1998 - The presidents of Ecuador and Peru signed a peace treaty, ending a decades-long border dispute between the two countries.
2000 - The New York Yankees became the first team in more than a quarter century to win three straight World Series championships, beating the New York Mets 4-to-2 in game five of their "Subway Series." (The Yankees matched the Oakland Athletics' three in a row from 1972-74, and won their fourth title in five years.)
Birthdays Today
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti (composer: over 550 clavier sonatas; son of composer Alessandro Scarlatti)
1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, Franch Revolutionary leader/impassioned orator/min of Justice. He was the last hope of the moderates during the Terror when his execution led directly to the overthrow of Robespierre in 1794.
1834 - Joseph Hansom (architect, inventor: Patent Safety Cab [2-wheeled, horse-driven cab with the driver seated above and behind the passengers]: the Hansom cab)
1855 - Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals (Post Cereals)
1876 - H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner (actor: Bulldog Drummond series, It's a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Ten Commandments)
1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet)
1886 - Gustav Hermann Unger, composer
1894 - John Knight (publisher: Knight-Ridder newspaper empire)
1906 - Primo Carnera (boxer: heaviest heavyweight champion [270 pounds-3/1/34]: outweighed opponent by 86 lbs., won on points)
1911 - Mahalia Jackson (singer: God's Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares, Whole World in his Hands, Move on up a Little Higher, The Lord's Prayer; in film: St. Louis Blues; LP: I Sing Because I'm Happy, The World's Greatest Gospel Singer)
1911 - Sid Gillman (College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: Ohio University: 1st college all-star game; Cleveland Rams; head coach: Miami University, University of Cincinnati, LA Rams, LA/San Diego Chargers, Houston Oilers [AFC Coach of the Year-1974]; general manager: Houston Oilers)
1913 - Charlie Barnet (musician: Saxophone, bandleader: Cherokee, We're All Burnt Up, Where Was I?, Pompton Turnpike, I Hear a Rhapsody, Skyliner; autobiography: Those Swinging Years)
1914 - Jackie Coogan (actor: The Kid: 1st full-length movie to star a child; Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, College Swing, Outlaw Women, The Shakiest Gun in the West, The Escape Artist, The Addams Family, McKeever & The Colonel; TV panelist: Pantomime Quiz; cause of the Coogan Act requiring parent's of child actors to put their earnings in trust)
1916 - Francois Mitterand, Jarnac France, President of France (1981-95)
1917 - Felix the Cat, cartoon character
1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, Shah of Iran (1941-79)
1934 - 'Hot Rod' (John) Hundley (basketball)
1938 - Ralph Bakshi, animator (Lord of Rings, Fritz the Cat, Mighty Mouse)
1940 - Mario Orosco, 1st victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1942 - Bob Hoskins (actor: Hook, Brazil, The Cotton Club, Mona Lisa, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Heart Condition, Mermaids)
1944 - Michael Piano (singer: group: The Sandpipers: Guantanamera, Come Saturday Morning)
1945 - Pat Conroy, American writer (Great Santini, Prince of Tides)
1946 - Ivan Reitman (director: Ghostbusters series, Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Meatballs, Stripes)
1946 - Keith Hopwood (singer, musician: guitar: group: Herman's Hermits: Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter, I'm Henry the Eighth I Am)
1946 - Pat Sajak (TV host: Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajak Show)
1947 - Hillary Rodham Clnton, Chicago, lawyer/1st lady/wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton
1947 - Jaclyn Smith (actress: Charlie's Angels, Christine Cromwell, The Bourne Identity, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Goodbye Columbus; commercials: Breck girl)
1948 - Toby Harrah (baseball)
1949 - Mike Hargrove (baseball)
1949 - Steve Rogers (baseball: NCAA Division I individual career wins pitching record: Tulsa [4, 1969, 1971])
1950 - Chuck Foreman (football: Minnesota Vikings running back/receiver: NFC Rookie of the Year [1973]: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI; NFC Player of the Year [1974, 1976]; New England Patriots)
1951 - Steve Ontiveros (baseball)
1952 - Tom Condon (football)
1954 - Lauren Tewes (actress: The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders)
1963 - Marla Maples (actress: Will Roger's Follies; married to Donald Trump)
Famous deaths
0899 - Alfred the Great, writer/king of Wessex (871-99), dies
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French marshal, depraved killer of 140 children, hanged over slow fire. A brilliant young French knight, he was believed to have cracked over the torture and death of his true love, Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), the Maid of Orleans
1874 - Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49
1890 - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies
1920, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland, Terence McSwiney, died after a two-and-a-half-month hunger strike in a British prison cell, demanding independence for Ireland.
1956 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60
1957 - Nicos Kazantzakis, writer (The Last Temptation of Christ), dies
1962 - Hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67
1968 - Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian/US helicopter builder, dies at 83
1976 - Deryck Victor Cooke, composer, dies at 57
1979 - Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated
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