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
- 1597 –Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
- 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.
- 1813 –War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
- 1861 –The Pony Express officially ceases operations.
- 1905 –Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
- 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: 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.
- 1917 –World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
- 1936 –The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
- 1940 –The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
- 1955 –Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
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