About October 26

October 26, 2023 is the 299th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 107 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On October 26

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1795 –
    The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
  • 1825 –
    The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
  • 1859 –
    The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
  • 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.
  • 1940 –
    The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
  • 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.
  • 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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