About October 26
October 26, 2024 is the 300th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 95 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 26
- 1640 –The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
- 1689 –General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
- 1774 –The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1813 –War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
- 1859 –The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
- 1917 –World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany. The young unknown Oberleutnant Erwin Rommel captures Mount Matajur with only 100 Germans against a force of over 7000 Italians.
- 1936 –The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
- 1940 –The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
- 1943 –World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 “Pfeil”.
- 1947 –The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
- 1955 –Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
- 1964 –Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
- 1967 –Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
- 1968 –Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
- 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.
- 1992 –The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
- 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.
- 2000 –Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.
- 2003 –The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acre, and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
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