About October 26
October 26, 2022 is the 299th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 88 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 26
- 1640 –The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
- 1689 –General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1905 –Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
- 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.
- 1921 –The Chicago Theatre opens.
- 1936 –The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
- 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.
- 1968 –Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
- 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.
- 1992 –The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.
- 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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