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
- 1597 –Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
- 1795 –The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
- 1811 –The Argentine government declare the freedom of expression for the press by decree.
- 1860 –Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
- 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: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
- 1921 –The Chicago Theatre opens.
- 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.
- 1967 –Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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