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The
26t o October
is the 299t day o the year (300t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 66 days bidin.
Events
- 1825
- The
Erie Canal
opens, linkin
Albany, New York
tae
Loch Erie
.
- 1859
- Breetish clipper "Royal Charter" is thrown onto rocks an sinks in a storm aff
Anglesey
,
Wales
, killin 449 fowk.
- 1881
- Gunfecht at the O.K. Corral,
Arizona
.
- 1905
- End o the union atween
Norawa
an
Swaden
.
- 1909
- Japanese
Prime meenister
Ito Hirobumi
is shot deed bi a
Korean
naitionalist in
Harbin
, present-day
Cheenae
.
- 1947
-
Jammu an Kashmir
becomes pairt o
Indie
.
- 1951
-
Winston Churchill
becomes
Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
for a seicont time.
- 1955
-
Austrick
declares permanent neutrality ten year efter the end o
Warld War II
.
- 1967
- Coronation o
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
o
Iran
.
- 1979
-
Park Chung-hee
,
Preses
o
Sooth Korea
, is assassinatit.
- 1994
- Peace agreement atween
Jordan
an
Israel
.
- 1995
- An avalanche in Flateyri, in
Iceland
's Wast Fjords, kills 20 fowk.
- 2000
-
Laurent Gbagbo
becomes
Preses
o the
Ivory Coast
.
- 2002
- Aroond 50
Chechen
terrorists an 150 hostages dee when
Roushie
special forces storm a theatre in
Moscow
tae end a three-day siege.
- 2010
-
Paul
, an
octopus
that acame famous durin the
2010 FIFA Warld Cup
, dees.
- 2015
- A major
yirdquauk
strikes
Afghanistan
an
Pakistan
, kllin 398 fowk.
- 2017
-
Jacinda Ardern
becomes
Prime meenister
o
New Zealand
, leadin a Labour-New Zealand First coalition.
- 2017
- The Tangerang firewirks disaster naur
Jakarta
,
Indonesie
, kills at least 47 fowk.
- 2018
-
Michael D. Higgins
is re-electit
Preses
o the
Republic o Ireland
; on the semme day, a majority in the kintra vote tae scrap its
blasphemy
law.
- 2019
- The climbin o the rock
Uluru
in
Australie
is banned.
- 2019
-
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
, leader o the sel-proclaimit
Islamic State o Iraq an the Levant
, is reported tae hae blown himsel up durin a
Unitit States
militar operation agin him.
Births
- 1491
-
Zhengde Emperor
o
Cheenae
(d.
1521
)
- 1685
-
Domenico Scarlatti
, Italian penter (d.
1757
)
- 1759
-
Georges Danton
, French revolutionar feegur (d.
1794
)
- 1778
-
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg
, Scots politeecian an colonial admeenistrator (d.
1866
)
- 1911
-
Sorley MacLean
, Scots poet (d.
1996
)
- 1915
-
Sydney Goodsir Smith
, New Zealand-Scots poet, airtist an dramatist (d.
1975
)
- 1916
-
Francois Mitterrand
,
Preses
o
Fraunce
(d.
1996
)
- 1919
-
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
, Shah o
Iran
(d.
1980
)
- 1919
-
Edward Brooke
, American politeecian (d.
2015
)
- 1931
-
Ronald Drever
, Scots pheesicist (d.
2017
)
- 1939
-
Willie Stevenson
, Scots fitbawer
- 1942
-
Bob Hoskins
, Inglis actor (d.
2014
)
- 1947
-
Hillary Clinton
, American politeecian, umwhile First Lady, Senator an
Secretar o State
- 1952
-
Arthur Graham
, Scots fitbawer
- 1957
-
Hugh Dallas
, Scots fitbaw referee
- 1959
-
Evo Morales
,
Preses
o
Bolivie
- 1961
-
Sammy Conn
, Scots fitbawer (d.
2014
)
- 1961
-
Uhuru Kenyatta
,
Preses
o
Kenyae
- 1966
-
David Winnie
, Scots fitbawer
- 1967
-
Keith Urban
, New Zealand sangster
- 1967
-
Douglas Alexander
, Scots politeecian
- 1973
-
Seth MacFarlane
, American animator, actor, sangster an producer
- 1977
-
Sarah Storey
, Inglis soummer an cyclist
- 1980
-
James Fowler
, Scots fitbawer
- 1982
-
Nicola Adams
, Inglis boxer
- 1993
-
Ross Caldwell
, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 899
-
Alfred the Great
, Saxon Keeng o Ingland (b.
849
)
- 1580
-
Anna o Austrick
, Queen o
Spain
an
Portugal
(b.
1549
)
- 1764
-
William Hogarth
, Inglis penter (b.
1697
)
- 1845
-
Carolina Nairne
, Scots sangwriter (b.
1766
)
- 1890
-
Carlo Collodi
, Italian writer (b.
1826
)
- 1895
-
Robert Brown
, Scots botanist, splorer an author (b.
1842
)
- 1909
-
Ito Hirobumi
, 1st
Prime meenister
o
Japan
(b.
1841
)
- 1922
-
Cargill Gilston Knott
, Scots pheesicist an mathemateecian (b.
1856
)
- 1957
-
Gerty Cori
, Czech-American biochemist (b.
1896
)
- 1972
-
Igor Sikorsky
, Roushie-American inventor an aviator (b.
1889
)
- 1979
-
Park Chung-hee
,
Preses
o
Sooth Korea
(b.
1917
)
- 1980
-
Marcelo Caetano
, Portuguese politeecian (b.
1906
)
- 2008
-
Tony Hillerman
, American writer (b.
1925
)
- 2019
-
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
, leader o the sel-proclaimit
Islamic State o Iraq an the Levant
(b.
1971
)
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