{"id":15759,"date":"2023-10-26T03:16:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=15759"},"modified":"2023-10-25T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T11:26:03","slug":"history-of-26-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-26-october\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 26 October"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 26 October<\/h2>\n

1905<\/strong> – Norway gained independence from Sweden.<\/p>\n

1942<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0ship\u00a0Hornet<\/i>\u00a0was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II.<\/p>\n

1944<\/strong> – During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. The battle was won by American forces and brought the end of the Pacific phase of World War II into sight.<\/p>\n

1949<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Harry Truman\u00a0raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.<\/p>\n

1951<\/strong> – Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain.<\/p>\n

1955<\/strong> – New York City’s “The Village Voice” was first published.<\/p>\n

1957<\/strong> – The Soviet Union announced that defense minister Marchal Georgi Zhukov had been relieved of his duties.<\/p>\n

1958<\/strong> – Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.<\/p>\n

1962<\/strong> – The Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0agreed to not invade Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey.<\/p>\n

1967<\/strong> – The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his Queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong> – “Doonesbury,” the comic strip by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28 newspapers across the\u00a0U.S.<\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> – Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to officially visit the United States.<\/p>\n

1977<\/strong> – The experimental space shuttle\u00a0Enterprise<\/i>\u00a0successfully landed at Edwards Air Force Base in\u00a0California.<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> – South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n

1980<\/strong> – Israeli President Yitzhak Navon became the first Israeli head of state to visit Egypt.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – “Baby Fae” was given the heart of baboon after being born with a severe heart defect. She lived for 21 days with the animal heart.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – Approximately 110,000 people marched past the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and Soviet embassies in London to pressure the two countries to end their arms race.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> – Roussel Uclaf, a French pharmaceutical company, announced it was halting the worldwide distribution of RU-486. The pill is used to induce abortions. The French government made the company reverse itself two days later.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> – Two whales were freed by Soviet and American icebreakers. The whales had been trapped for nearly 3 weeks in an Arctic ice pack.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0State Department issued a warning that terrorists could be planning an attack on a passenger ship or aircraft.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong> – Wayne Gretzky became the first\u00a0NHL\u00a0player to reach 2,000 points.<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> – Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg,\u00a0VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – General Motors Corp. Chairman Robert Stempel resigned after the company recorded its highest losses in history.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – In Canada, voters rejected the Charlottetown accord, which was designed to unify the country.<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> – Deborah Gore Dean was convicted of 12 felony counts of defrauding the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0government and lying to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress. Dean was a central figure in the Reagan-era HUD scandal.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> – Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong> – Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) scored his 500th\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL)\u00a0career goal against the New York Islanders in his 605th game. He became the second-fastest player to attain the plateau. Wayne Gretzky had reached 600 goals by his 575th\u00a0NHL\u00a0game.<\/p>\n

1996<\/strong> – Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic Park bombing.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong> – It was announced that Fort Worth’s Lockheed Martin won a defense contract for $200 billion over 40 years. The contract, for the “joint strike fighter,” was the largest defense contract in history.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – Russian authorities pumped gas into a theater where separatist rebels held over 800 hostages. The gas killed 116 hostages and all 50 hostage-takers were killed by the gas or gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Cedar Fire, the third-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000\u00a0km2<\/sup>), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A 7.5 magnitude\u00a0earthquake\u00a0strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0An earthquake of magnitude 6.6\u00a0strikes central Italy.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sam Brown, American actor, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Martina Schild, Swiss skier<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Guy Sebastian, Malaysian-Australian singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chou Ssu-Chi, Taiwanese baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nicola Adams, English boxer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Adam Carroll, Irish race car driver<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Francisco Liriano, Dominican baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Luke Watson, South African rugby player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sasha Cohen, American figure skater<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Adriano Correia, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mathieu Cr\u00e9pel, French snowboarder<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jefferson Farf\u00e1n, Peruvian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Amanda Overmyer, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kafoumba Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Monta Ellis, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kieran Read, New Zealand rugby player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ibor Bakar, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jakub Rze\u017aniczak, Polish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marco Ruben, the Argentinian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Schoolboy Q, German-American rapper<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Abudramae Bamba, Ivorian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Shawn Lauvao, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Greg Zuerlein, American figure skater<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dre Kirkpatrick, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Emil Sayfutdinov, Russian motorcycle racer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mark Swanepoel, South African rugby player<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Riho Iida, Japanese model, and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Joseph Cramarossa, Canadian hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Waqa Blake, Fijian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Allie DeBerry, American model, and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rebecca Tunney, English gymnast<\/li>\n
  • 2002<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Julian Dennison, New Zealand actor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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