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
- 1776 –Benjamin Franklin departs 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.
- 1813 –War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
- 1825 –The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
- 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 ceases operations.
- 1909 –Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
- 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.
- 1921 –The Chicago Theatre opens.
- 1940 –The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
- 1958 –Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
- 1984 –“Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
- 1985 –The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
- 1992 –The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.
- 1994 –Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
- 1999 –Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
- 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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