About October 26

October 26, 2021 is the 299th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 98 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.
  • 1774 –
    The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • 1813 –
    War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1967 –
    Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
  • 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.
  • 1985 –
    The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
  • 1992 –
    The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.
  • 1994 –
    Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
  • 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.

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