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- 1640 The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
- 1664 The British Marines are organized.
- 1774 The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1776 Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
- 1795 The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
- 1814 British governor-general of India declares war on Gurkhas of Nepal.
- 1825 The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
- 1825 The Erie Canal, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River in upstate New York, opens.
- 1859 The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
- 1860 Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
- 1861 The Pony Express officially ceased operations.
- 1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer
- 1863 Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
- 1868 White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
- 1869 The first American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
- 1874 All Grand Trunk Railway lines east of Montreal, 542 miles, are converted from 5' 6" to standard gauge.
- 1876 President sends federal troops to SC
- 1878 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly shoots and kills three police officers at Stringybark Creek, Victoria.
- 1881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az
- 1881 The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
- 1903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay
- 1905 Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
- 1905 The first Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
- 1905 Union of Sweden & Norway ends
- 1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
- 1917 Battle of Caporetto: Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the hands of Germany during the World War I.
- 1917 Capt. Christopher P.J. O'Kelly (52nd Cdn. Infantry BAtt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium
- 1917 Lt. Robert Shankland (43 Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium
- 1917 Prv. Thomas W. Holmes (4th Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium
- 1918 Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
- 1920 Visitor posting - Viola Anderson born - Canada
- 1921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
- 1936 The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.
- 1940 Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britian is bombed and sunk.
- 1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
- 1941 US savings bonds go on sale
- 1942 The U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet is sunk in the WWII Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
- 1942 World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, was sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.
- 1944 U.S. defeats the Japanese Navy near the Phillipines.
- 1947 Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
- 1947 The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq.
- 1947 The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
- 1948 Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
- 1950 In London King George VI opens the restored House of Commons chamber, destroyed in a 1941 bombing raid
- 1951 Boxer Joe Louis comes out of retirement to fight Rocky Marciano. However, Marciano would win the fight in eight rounds.
- 1951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
- 1954 Trieste return to Italy.
- 1955 After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
- 1955 Ng nh Dim declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
- 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
- 1955 Visitor posting - Patrick Shannon Vaughn was born - USA
- 1956 UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
- 1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution
- 1957 USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
- 1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
- 1958 Pan Am flies its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in eight hours, 41 minutes.
- 1958 Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
- 1962 Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
- 1964 Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
- 1965 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
- 1965 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
- 1965 The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs).
- 1966 The first Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
- 1967 Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
- 1968 Soyuz 3 launched
- 1968 The Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City.
- 1969 In Yugoslavia a 5.6 severe earthquake in the Banja Luka area of Yugoslavia killed 20, seriously injured 150, and left 65,000 homeless
- 1970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
- 1971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
- 1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
- 1972 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
- 1973 Wings release "Helen Wheels"
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Ken Boothe - Everything I Own
- 1975 Anwar Sadat becomes the first Egyptian president to visit the United States.
- 1976 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
- 1976 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
- 1976 Visitor posting - Walter Victor is born! - USA
- 1977 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
- 1977 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
- 1977 The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
- 1978 Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
- 1979 Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
- 1981 Visitor posting - Nevin Dean Guhr was born - USA
- 1984 "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
- 1984 "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
- 1984 Visitor posting - jacqueline Escobar born - USA [email protected]
- 1985 Montreal constable Jacinthe Fyfe is the first Canadian female police officer killed on duty.
- 1985 The Mutijuli Aboriginal Community is granted freehold title to Ayers Rock and the Uluru National Park in the Northern Territory.
- 1987 Visitor posting - Yonatan C. Goldberg was born. - USA [email protected]
- 1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
- 1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
- 1987 Visitor posting - October 26 1987 Katherine was born!
- 1987 Visitor posting - October 26, 1987 - Richard Jonson is born
- 1987 Visitor posting - Will E was born - USA
- 1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service
- 1988 US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
- 1992 The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
- 1992 The command and control system of the London Ambulance Service fails catastrophically.
- 1994 Announcement that Andrew Wiles correctly proved Fermat's last theorem.
- 1994 Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Forrest Bailey was born - USA
- 1995 The CN commuter line between Montréal Central station and Deux Montagnes is reopened with modernized equipment. The new electric multiple unit trains, operating at 25 kv AC, replace aging equipment, some of it going back to the opening of the line in 1918.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Frankie Muzika was born
- 1995 Visitor posting - Hayley K G D was born! - United Kingdom
- 1995 Visitor posting - J Bru was born on October 26, 1995 - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Katie was born
- 1997 Visitor posting - Oct 26 1997 Brandon Kassab born
- 1999 "Pinocchio" becomes the first animated classic to make its way to DVD
- 1999 Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
- 2000 An Ilyushin-18 aircraft ploughs into a mountain in ex-Soviet Georgia, killing more than 80 people.
- 2000 Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Cte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Gu.
- 2001 The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
- 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.
- 2003 The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
- 2007 OS X "Leopard" is released.
- 2009 A Sri Lankan court in Colombo releases Vetrivel Jaseeharan, the publisher of North Eastern Monthly, and his wife after they were charged with conspiracy against the government in March 2008. The editor was given a twenty year jail sentence in August 2009.
- 2009 A court in Milan rules that Mediaset run by Silvio Berlusconi is being anti-competitive against News Corporation run by Rupert Murdoch.
- 2009 A crater found in northern Latvia, believed at first to be a meteorite strike, is revealed to be a hoax perpetrated by telecom operator Tele2.
- 2009 A police officer in Liverpool, England is hospitalised in a life threatening condition after undergoing a homophobic attack by a gang of twenty youths.
- 2009 At least 10 patients from thirty-four operated on partially lose their sight after free cataract operations in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh.
- 2009 At least seven people are killed and at least four others are injured when a three-story building falls down in Palma, Majorca. The dead include at least three from Colombia.
- 2009 Australian authorities offer a Aus$1 million reward in their search for a man suspected of ordering the murder of a vampire.
- 2009 Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžic boycotts his own trial as it begins in The Hague.
- 2009 It is announced that Silvio Berlusconi will stand trial on 16 November.
- 2009 Jurelang Zedkaia is elected the 5th President of the Marshall Islands, following the ouster of Litokwa Tomeing in a no confidence vote last week. (
- 2009 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia removes the sentence of 60 lashes for Rosanna Yami, female journalist involved in the Red Lines sex scandal.
- 2009 President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali wins 90% of votes, his fifth term and a new five-year mandate in the country's general election.
- 2009 Prof. Salamat Akhtar demands a repeal of blasphemy laws in Pakistan
- 2009 Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with scarlet fever.
- 2009 South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk is convicted of fraud over his stem cell research.
- 2009 The UN's court in Freetown, Sierra Leone sees its final case after seven years of investigating the country's civil war.
- 2009 The composer and pianist Elton John cancels his third concert in several days due to flu. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
- 2009 The five surviving Conway sextuplets, the first sextuplets born on the island of Ireland, return home.
- 2009 The trial of Japanese singer and actress Noriko Sakai begins in Tokyo. (Xinhua) (BBC)
- 2009 Uldis Nulle, a scientist at the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, said: "This is not a real crater. It is artificial."
- 2009 Visitor posting - Kimora Graham was born my bundle of joy xx - United Kingdom
- 2009 Yahoo! discontinues its free web hosting service GeoCities, ten years after purchasing it from David Bohnett and John Rezner
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