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
- 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.
- 1689 –General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
- 1775 –King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell 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.
- 1861 –The Pony Express officially ceases operations.
- 1881 –The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
- 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.
- 1936 –The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
- 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.
- 1947 –The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
- 1955 –After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
- 1958 –Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
- 1964 –Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
- 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.
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