What are the important events that happened on October 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 26: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 26 is the 300th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 13, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,729,900,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectagon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac 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 95 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,327 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 26 Historical Events
- 1640 –The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
- 1689 –General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
- 1775 –King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
- 1795 –The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
- 1811 –The Argentine government declare the freedom of expression for the press by decree.
- 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.
- 1977 –The last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
- 1999 –Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
- 2003 –The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acre, and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
Who were born on October 26?
- 1757 –Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
- 1869 –Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
- 1915 –Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
- 1927 –Warne Marsh, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1987)
- 1942 –Zdenko Runjić, Croatian composor (d. 2004)
- 1957 –Julie Dawn Cole, British actress
- 1973 –Austin Healey, English rugby player
- 1973 –Taka Michinoku, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1984 –Adriano, Brazilian footballer
- 1987 –Shawn Lauvao, American football player
Who died on October 26?
- 1717 –Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
- 1817 –Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
- 1909 –Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1841)
- 1930 –Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Jewish bacteriologist (b. 1860)
- 1979 –Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
- 1995 –Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
- 2005 –George Swindin, English football player manager (b. 1914)
- 2005 –Keith Parkinson, American fantasy artist (b. 1958)
- 2007 –Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
- 2008 –Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
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