Today In History - October 26

1774 The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1825 The Erie Canal, between Hudson River and Lake Erie, is opened
1863 The Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
1863 The Football Association forms in England
1868 White terrorists kill several blacks in St. Bernard Parish, LA
1869 The first American steeplechase horserace is held at Westchester, NY
1876 The President sends federal troops to SC
1881 Shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ
1905 The first Soviet workers' council is formed in St. Petersburg, Russia
1905 The union of Sweden and Norway ends
1916 Margaret Sanger is arrested for obscenity
1921 Solomon Porter Hood is named the Minister to Liberia
1941 US savings bonds go on sale
1942 The US ship Hornet is sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during WW II
1947 The Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir accedes to India
1949 President Truman increases the minimum wage from 40¢ to 75¢
1950 Branch Rickey resigns as the Brooklyn Dodger's president
1951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam is a republic and that he is the president
1956 The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute is approved
1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution
1957 The USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
1957 The Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
1958 PanAm flies the first transatlantic jet trip: NY to Paris
1964 The Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show
1965 Sylvia Likens is tortured by teen girl gang
1966 The first Pacific communications satellite is launched: Intelsat 2
1967 The Shah of Iran crowns himself
1968 Soyuz 3 is launched
1970 The "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1971 The UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz, conducted by the Park Service, begin
1972 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
1975 Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to officially visit the US
1976 Trinidad and Tobago become a republic
1977 The 5th and final test of space shuttle Enterprise
1982 Steve Carlton became the first pitcher to win four Cy Young awards
1984 "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart transplant, but only lives for 21 days
1987 The head of the Salvadoran Human Rights Commission is assassinated by death squads
1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for a four month advisory service
1988 A joint US/Soviet effort frees two grey whales from the frozen Arctic

1466 Desiderius Erasmus
1483 Hans Buchner
1645 Aert de Gelder
1673 Dimitrie Cantemir
1685 Domenico Scarlatti
1685 Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti
1694 Johan Helmich Roman
1719 Joaquin de Oxinaga
1740 Ernest Louis Muller
1759 Georges Danton
1789 Joseph Mayseder
1791 Charles Sprague
1795 Nicolaos Mantzaros
1804 Lorenzo Thomas
1813 Henry Thomas Smart
1818 Stefano Golinelli
1819 Meir A. Goldschmidt
1823 Karl Weinhold
1824 Arthur Middleton Manigault
1830 Polibo Fumagalli
1830 Stephen Elliott, Jr.
1837 James Lawlor Kiernan
1843 Vasili V. Vereshchagin
1845 Hendrick Waelput
1854 August T. C. Kiehl
1855 Charles Post
1859 Arthur Friedheim
1861 Richard D. Sears
1864 Joseph Moorat
1871 Hermann Lohr
1873 Thorvald Stauning
1879 Leon Trotsky
1881 Margaret Wycherly
1883 Napoleon Hill
1886 Gustav Hermann Unger
1894 John S. Knight
1898 Beryl Rubinstein
1900 Ibrahim Abbud
1900 Karin Boye
1902 Hugh Chilvers
1902 Joseph Paul Sharkey Zukauskas
1907 Giovanni Salviucci
1907 Johannes A. Apon
1910 John "Cardinal" Krol
1911 Mahalia Jackson
1911 Sid Gillman
1914 Jackie Coogan
1915 Golfredo Corradetti
1916 Francois Mitterand
1917 Cartoon character Felix the Cat
1917 Mario Biaggi
1919 Edward W. Brooke
1921 George Houston
1924 Tom F. Lewis
1925 Jan Wolkers
1926 Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov
1929 Georgette Amowitz
1929 Hans Peter Haller
1930 John Arden
1931 Hank Garrett
1932 Anthony C. Beilenson
1932 Chinadorai Deshmutu
1933 Suzy Parker
1934 Ulrich Plentzdorf
1936 Bruce Belland
1937 Dave Gavitt
1938 Bernadette Lafont
1938 Charles W. Stenholm
1938 Ralph Bakshi
1939 Vladimir Mikhailovich Beloborodov
1941 Harald Nielsen
1942 Bob Hoskins
1942 Dietmar Polaczek
1945 Pat Conroy
1946 Ivan Reitman
1946 Keith Hopwood
1946 Maureen Anderman
1946 Pat Sajak
1947 Hillary Clinton
1947 Jaclyn Smith
1948 Marshall Colt
1949 Kevin Sullivan
1950 Chuck Foreman
1950 T E Srinivasan
1951 Maggie Roche
1951 William "Bootsy" Collins
1953 Jennifer Roberson
1953 Julian Keith Strickland
1961 Mark Bucek
1962 Cary Elwes
1962 Dylan McDermott
1962 Roger Kingdom
1963 Kerri Lynne Rosenberg
1963 Natalie Merchant
1963 Tony Casillas
1964 Lawson Duncan
1964 Vencie Glenn
1965 Gil Heredia
1965 Ken Rutherford
1965 Kim Cooper
1965 Mark McLoughlin
1965 Wayne Martin
1966 Alex Pastoor
1966 David Miley
1966 Olga Bicherova
1967 Bobby Houston
1967 Shelly Stokes
1968 Chris Oldham
1968 Nico John Hoogma
1969 Mark Sweeney
1969 Mike Pritchard
1970 Bert Emanuel
1970 Jessie Armstead
1970 Randall Evans
1970 Tom Vano
1971 Cinnamon Woods
1975 Tammy Cleland