Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays 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 receive MBE Members of the British Empire recognition 1976 - Transkei declares its "independence" from South Africa 1978 - Independent Counsel Act signed into law 1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon 1994 - Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty 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. 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 - François 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 1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball owner 1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer 1972 - Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer 1979 - Park Chung-hee, president of South Korea 1991 - Bill Graham, rock and roll entrepreneur 1999 - Hoyt Axton, musician 2002 - Jacques Massu, French general Holidays 1955 - Anniversary of the Austrian day of independence See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December October 25 - October 27 - November 26 - September 26 - more historical anniversaries This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.