1881
Three Earp brothers and Doc Holliday have a shootout with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
| 1774 | The first Continental Congress, which protested British measures and called for civil disobedience, concludes in Philadelphia. | |
| 1795 | General Paul Barras resigns his commission as head of France’s Army of the Interior to become head of the Directory; his second-in-command becomes the army’s commander—Napoleon Bonaparte. | |
| 1825 | The first boat on the Erie Canal leaves Buffalo, N.Y. | |
| 1881 | Three Earp brothers and Doc Holliday have a shootout with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. | |
| 1905 | Norway signs a treaty of separation with Sweden. Norway chooses Prince Charles of Denmark as the new king; he becomes King Haakon VII. | |
| 1918 | Germany’s supreme commander, General Erich Ludendorff, resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating the armistice. This sets the stage for his later support for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, who claim that Germany did not lose the war on the battlefield but were “stabbed in the back” by politicians. | |
| 1942 | The Japanese attack Guadalcanal, sinking two U.S. carriers. | |
| 1942 | The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Hornet is sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz Island, in the South Pacific. | |
| 1944 | The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming U.S. victory as combined American and Australian forces cripple the Imperial Japanese Navy. Fought over four days in waters near the Philippine islands of Leyte, Samar, and Luzon, it is the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carry out organized kamikaze attacks and will come to be regarded as the largest naval battle of World War II. [From MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History] | |
| 1950 | A reconnaissance platoon for a South Korean division reaches the Yalu River. They are the only elements of the U.N. force to reach the river before the Chinese offensive pushes the whole army down into South Korea. | |
| 1955 | The Village Voice is first published, backed in part by Norman Mailer. | |
| 1955 | Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself Premier of South Vietnam. | |
| 1957 | The Russian government announces that Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the nation’s most prominent military hero, has been relieved of his duties as Minister of Defense. Khrushchev accuses Zhukov as promoting his own “cult of personality” and sees him as a threat to his own popularity. | |
| 1958 | The first New York – Paris transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by Pan Am, while the first New York – London transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by BOAC. | |
| 1967 | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and his wife Farah as Empress. | |
| 1970 | Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury first appears. | |
| 1979 | The President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, is asssasinated by Kim Jae-kyu, head of the country’s Central intelligence Agency; Choi Kyu-ha is named acting president. | |
| 1994 | Israel and Jordan sign a peace treaty. | |
| 2001 | The USA PATRIOT Act is signed into law by Pres. George W. Bush, greatly expanding intelligence and legal agencies’ ability to utilize wiretaps, records searches and surveillance. | |
| 2002 |
Russian Spetsnaz storm the Moscow Theatre, where Chechen terrorists had taken the audience and performers hostage three days earlier; 50 terrorists and 150 hostages die in the assault.
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Born on October 26
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| 1800 | Count Helmuth Karl Von Moltke, a Prussian Field Marshal, whose reorganization of the Prussian Army lead to military victories which allowed the unification of Germany. | |
| 1854 | Charles William Post, food manufacturer, creator of “Grape Nuts” and “Post Toasties.” | |
| 1879 | Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. | |
| 1902 | Beryl Markham, aviator and writer. | |
| 1911 | Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer. | |
| 1916 | Francois Mitterrand, French leader. | |
| 1919 | Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran who was overthrown in 1979 and died in Egypt | |
| 1944 | Pat Conroy, novelist (The Prince of Tides). | |
| 1947 | Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States (1993–2001), Senator from New York (2001–2009) and US Secretary of State (2009–2013). | |
| 1953 | Keith Strickland, songwriter, musician; guitarist with The B-52s. | |
| 1967 | Keith Urban, singer, songwriter, musician; “Golden Road” (2002) named biggest country hit of the decade 2000–2010 by Billboard magazine. | |
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