About October 26
October 26, 2025 is the 299th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 114 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 26
- 1597 –Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
- 1689 –General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
- 1813 –War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
- 1881 –The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
- 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.
- 1917 –World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.
- 1944 –World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
- 1947 –The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
- 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.
- 1984 –“Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
- 1992 –The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.
- 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.
- 2001 –The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
- 2002 –Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
- 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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