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On This Day:
Sunday October 26, 2014

This is the 299th day of the year, with 66 days remaining in 2014.

Fact of the Day: Pacific

The dense water around Antarctica sinks and then spreads northward to form the bottom layer of the greater part of the Pacific.

Holidays

Austria, Iran: National Day.
Feast day of Saints Lucian and Marcian, St. Bean, St. Rusticus of Narbonne, St. Eata, and St. Cedd.
United States: Mule Day. Anniversary of the first jackasses arriving in America, a gift from the King of Spain to President George Washington in 1785.
Spain: Exaltation of the Shellfish.

Events

1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River. It provided overland water transportation between the East Coast and the Great Lakes region.
1860 - Italian unification leader Giuseppe Garibaldi proclaimed Victor Emmanuel King of Italy.
1881 - Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and professional killer Doc Holliday challenged the Clanton gang and the McLowerys to the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The McLowerys and one of the Clantons were killed.
1905 - Sweden and Norway ended their union and Oscar II, the Norwegian king, abdicated.
1949 - President Harry Truman signed a bill raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
1954 - Chevrolet introduced its V-8 engine. (Henry Leland put a V-8 in a Cadillac in 1921.)
1955 - The "Village Voice" was first published.
1955 - The U.S. Air Force officially proclaimed that there were no such things as flying saucers.
1956 - The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency was formed.
1958 - The first New York-to-Paris passenger service was started by Pan Am, while the first New York-to-London transatlantic service is inaugurated by British Overseas Airway Corporation (BOAC).
1962 - In the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviets suggested that their missile bases in Cuba would be dismantled under United Nations supervision, and that Cuban leader Fidel Castro would accept a pledge to accept no more offensive weapons, in return for a United States guarantee not to invade Cuba.
1967 - The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
1970 - Gary Trudeau's comic strip "Doonesbury" first appeared.
1975 - Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to pay an official visit to the United States.
1975 - "A Chorus Line" premiered on Broadway. It later surpassed "Grease" to become the longest-running Broadway show in history.
1977 - The experimental space shuttle Enterprise landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1985 - An American infant, known as Baby Fae, was given a transplanted baboon's heart. Baby Fae lived 21 days with the animal heart.
1994 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.
2000 - The New York Yankees became the first team in more than a quarter century to win three straight World Series championships, beating the New York Mets in five games.
2001 - The Supreme Court building was closed for anthrax testing; traces were found in the State Department and CIA headquarters.

Births

1803 - Joseph Hansom, British architect and inventor of a low enclosed horse-drawn coach, which was called the Hansom cab.
1854 - Charles Post, American cereal entrepreneur.
1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist leader.
1901 - Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer.
1902 - Beryl Markham, Kenya-born British aviator, horse trainer, and writer.
1916 - François Mitterrand, French statesman.
1919 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran.
1942 - Bob Hoskins, English-born actor and director.
1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator, attorney, first lady of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Deaths

1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and woman suffrage movement leader.
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian-born American aeronautical engineer best known for his successful development of the helicopter.
1979 - South Korean President Park Chung-hee, shot by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Jae-kyu.

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