October 26: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

October 26th marks the 299th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 300th in case of leap years). There are 66 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Hillary Clinton (1947), François Mitterrand (1916) and Keith Urban (1967).
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Holidays

Nauru - Angam Day
Austria - National Day: Anniversary of the Declaration of Neutrality (1955)
Also see October 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
St. Quadragesimus
St. Rusticus
St. Gibitrudis
St. Fulk
St. Eadfrid
St. Demetrius (aka St. Dimitrios) of Thessaloniki
St. Cuthbert
St. Cedd
St. Alfred the Great
Roman festivals - first day of Ludi Victoriae Sullanae (until 1 November)
R.C. Saints - October 26th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: St. Bean
St. Evaristus
St. Lucian
St. Albinus
St. Rogatian
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Events

2018 2018 Gaza border protests. Israel responds to 40 Palestinian rockets by launching 80 air strikes against what Israel claims are Hamas and Iranian-controlled weapons factories in Gaza. Soon afterward, Islamic Jihad announces a Egypt-mediated ceasefire.
2017 Russian interference in 2016 US elections: Twitter bans ads from Russian news agencies RT or Sputnik. This is based on U.S intelligence's conclusion, that both tried to interfere with 2016 U.S. presidential elections on behalf of Russia.
2016 Somali Civil War (2009-present). A militant group affiliated to ISIL seizes Qandala, a coastal town in the autonomous Puntland area.
2015 Spillover from the Syrian Civil War, Turkey ISIL conflict: According to the state-run Anadolu Agency, four Islamic State militants were killed and two Turkish policemen were injured in an attack on a house that was being used by militants in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey. Four other officers sustained injuries.
2014 War in North-West Pakistan: Pakistan claims that 18 militants were killed in an air strike near the Afghanistan border.
2013 War in Afghanistan (2001-present:) A gunfight between Afghan soldiers and foreign soldiers at the outskirts Kabul kills at most one Afghan soldier and injures many other soldiers.
2012 The latest round of sectarian clashes between Buddhists, Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists has killed at least 64 people in western Burma. 3,200 Rohingya were also displaced.
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: At most 17 people have been killed in Syria as fighting continues between government and opposition groups.
2010 Permanent
2009 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia, wins 90% of the votes. This is his fifth term as president and a new five year mandate in the country’s general election.
2008 American commandos raid a farm in Syria across from Iraq. Eight civilians were killed by the Syrian government.
2007 The Mexican consulate in New York City is shaken by an explosion. Two thrown handgrenades were used to cause the explosion, which was further enhanced by explosive material. 7 people sustained injuries, several windows were blown out and debris was found in the building.
2006 After a public outcry over his statement that women who don't wear the hijab were ampquotuncovered meatampquot, Sheikh Taj El Din Hilaly in Australia apologizes.
2005 American casualties in the war on Iraq have reached 2,000.
2004 For the first time since 1918, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series.
2003 The Cedar Fire, which is the second-largest wildfire in California history, causes 15 deaths and burns 250,000 acres (1,050 km). It also destroys more than 2,200 homes in San Diego.
2002 Moscow Theatre Siege: Around 50 Chechen terrorists are killed and 150 hostages are taken hostage by Russian Spetsnaz. They stormed a Moscow theater that had been occupied three days earlier during a musical performance.
2001 The USA PATRIOT Act is now law.
2000 Sony Computer Entertainment launches the Sony PlayStation 2 in America. It can play PlayStation games and supports DVD-ROM and DVD-Video as well as CD-ROM and Dolby Digital media. The price is approximately US$300. The first week sales: 681 855.
1999 Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
1997 Bill Glasson wins Las Vegas Golf Invitational
1996 The New York Yankees win the World Series for the first time since 1978, defeating the Atlanta Braves 3–2 to win the series in 6 games.
1995 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
1994 Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
1993 NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
1992 The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
1990 William Anthony Odom, North Carolina 15-year-old, accidentally hangs himself staging a gallows scene at a Halloween party.
1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service
1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
1986 Into the Light closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 6 performances
1985 On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Saint Louis Cardinals the 82nd World Series.
1984 "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days.
1982 US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982
1980 11th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:41
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1977 5th and final test of space shuttle Enterprise
1976 Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic.
1975 Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball
1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army
1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by US Park Service) begin.
1971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
1970 Doonesbury comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1968 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy
1967 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
1966 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die
1965 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
1964 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1963 US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon, Nevada
1962 Beatles tape Please Please Me andAsk Me Why
1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test
1960 AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Washington DC for 1961
1959 First photographs taken of the far side of the Moon, by Luna 3.
1958 PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris
1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting.
1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution.
1955 1st edition of Village Voice (NYC) published
1954 Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine
1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m and 15 miles
1950 630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea
1949 US President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents.
1948 Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
1947 The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
1944 The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends, as the Japanese fleet withdraws from the victorious American fleet. The Japanese lost 34 ships, including four carriers, three battleships, and forty cruisers.
1943 World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 ''Pfeil''.
1942 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1941 2nd meeting partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1940 The US P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service
1938 Du Pont named its new synthetic fiber nylon
1936 The first electric generator at Boulder Dam goes into full operation.
1933 French government of Serraut forms
1928 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) formally established with the adoption of “Statutes of the International Red Cross”
1927 Duke Ellington sings Creole Love Song
1926 Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 Belga)
1923 Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
1922 Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini
1921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia.
1920 Álvaro Obregón is announced the elected president of Mexico.
1919 B C Hilliams musical Buddies, premieres in New York City
1918 Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe
1917 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control).
1913 Huerta elected President of Mexico
1912 Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens
1911 Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
1909 Ito Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
1905 Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
1903 Yerba Buena is first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay.
1901 1st use of getaway car occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1900 After 4 years of work, 1st section of New York subway opens
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