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
- 306 –Martyrdom of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
- 1774 –The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1775 –King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
- 1776 –Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1881 –The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
- 1905 –Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 “Pfeil”.
- 1944 –World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
- 1968 –Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
- 1992 –The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
- 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.
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