October 26th

October 26 is the 299th (two hundred and ninety-ninth) day of the year—the 300th (three-hundredth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1377: In Bosnia, Stiefan Tvrtko is crowned the first king of that country.
• 1540: 1200 men arrive in the valley of Copiapo (in northern Chile) in command of Pedro de Valdivia, after walking through the Atacama Desert.
• 1810: In Cuba, the Storm of the Salitrous Escarcha is unleashed (12 days until 10 November). In Havana, 70 ships sank. The sea passes 8 rods over the flags of the fortresses of the villa. The sea floods the Bishop Street, and the boats sail along that street to where the La Moderna Poesía library would later be.
• 1811: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the revolutionary government decrees the freedom of press printing.
• 1820: In Venezuela, the then President of the Great Colombia, Simon Bolivar, writes a proclamation to the citizens of Carora known as 'The Proclamation to Los Caroreños', where he declares them Beneméritos de la Patria, for the exhaustive contribution to the independence of Venezuela and other South American nations, such as Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Bolivia and Peru.
• 1833: In northern Chile, Diego de Almeyda founded the city of Chañaral.
• 1885: in Paris, France, before the Academy of Sciences, the French chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur reveals his work on immunization against rabies.
• 1905: Sweden recognizes the independence of Norway.
• 1909: At the train station in Harbin (in Manchuria), Korean nationalist An Jung-geun murders Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi, who was leading the invasion of Korea.
• 1940: the American plane North American P-51 Mustang made its first flight.
• 1944: the battle of the Gulf of Leyte ends.
• 1955: In Vietnam, General Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims the “Republic of South Vietnam”, a state with capital in Saigon, accumulating on itself the positions of head of State and head of Government.
• 1958: in an aerostatic balloon, 460 meters high, on area 5 of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 2:20 am (local time) United States detonates its 4.9 kiloton Sanford atomic bomb. It is the 187 of the 1132 bomb that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992. At 8:00, another balloon and at the same altitude detonated the atomic bomb De Baca, of 2.2 kt.
• 1958: in an atmospheric test 110 meters high, on the site of atomic evidence in Kazakhstan (about 150 km west of the city of Semipalatinsk), the Soviet Union detonates an atomic bomb 2.8 kilotons, of the 981 that the Soviet Union detonated between 1949 and 1991, which measures in kiloton represent 54.9 per cent of the total nuclear tests performed in the world.
• 1960: In El Salvador, President José María Lemus is overthrown by a coup d ' état, and instead, a Board of Government is installed to hold power for three months.
• 1961: on the Santa Maria farm, located in the Platanal district, Pedro Betancourt (in the Cuban province of Matanzas), a group of "bandits"—in the framework of the terrorist attacks organized by the US CIA, under the orders of President John F. Kennedy—kill the militiaman Vicente Santana Ortega and wound José M. Rodríguez.
• 1965: In London, the British rock group The Beatles receive the Order of the British Empire for their contribution to the music of that country.
• 1965: In Indianapolis (United States) is the body of Sylvia Likens in a grim basement of 3850 East New York Street. The 16-year-old girl had been tortured, harassed and raped to death by Gertrude Baniszewski and her children, as well as several teenagers and adults in the neighborhood. He was the victim of the worst case of physical abuse of the state of Indiana.
• 1971: in the Canary Island of La Palma (Spain), the Teneguía volcano erupted.
• 1976: in Miami (United States) Cuban terrorists Freddy Lugo and Hernán Ricardo—authors of the Barbados crime organized by the U.S. CIA—are deported to Venezuela.
• 1979: In Seoul (South Korea), President Park Chung-hee is murdered by Kim Jae-gyu, head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
• 1982: Colombia officially renounces the organization of the 1986 World Football Championship.
• 1984: in Bolivia, President Hernán Siles Zuazo began a four-day hunger strike to try to achieve a climate of peace and reflection in the country.
• 1984: “Terminator” is released. It was one of the first major works of James Cameron, director of films such as “Titanic” (1997) and “Avatar” (2009).
• 1988: in Venezuela, Night of the Tanks: a column of twenty-six armoured Dragon vehicles (V-100) are mobilized from Fuerte Tiuna to the area of the presidential palace of Miraflores in the center of Caracas, without apparent reason.
• 1994: Isaac Rabin and Abdelsalam al-Majali sign the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan.
• 1998: Hurricane Mitch causes serious damage to Honduras.
• 1998: Ecuador and Peru sign the peace agreement that puts an end to the border conflict.
• 1999: In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords accepts in a vote that its seats are not inherited.
• 2001: In Iran, in spite of the war, the Muslim Women's Games are inaugurated, with the presence of more than 200 women athletes of Muslim origin, including Afghans and Americans.
• 2001: In the United States, President George W. Bush signs resolution 3162—or Patriotic Law—which provides unlimited powers to the police, the CIA and the FBI.
• 2004: Rockstar Games and Rockstar North, take the video game to market Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
• 2006: in Buenos Aires, Venezuelan Mayré Martínez becomes the first Latin American Idol.
• 2006: launch of the Stereo mission for the study of the Sun.
• 2007: U.S. company Apple launches Mac OS X Leopard operating system.
• 2008: the 2008 municipal elections are held in Chile.
• 2009: All GeoCities servers are formatted in the United States, erasing millions of free websites.
• 2012: Microsoft, compared to Windows, announces the release of Windows 8 system in several countries.
• 2013: the first national presentation event of the civil platform Citizen Movement in Madrid is held.
• 2013: In Peru, Huanchaco’s spa becomes the first beach in Latin America and the fifth in the world to be recognized as a “world surfing reserve”.
• 2015: In Afghanistan there is an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale, which leaves a balance of more than 400 deaths and 1200 wounded.
• 2016: In the town of Visso, Italy, an earthquake of 5.4 is recorded on the Richter scale.
• 2016: In Venezuela marches are held in protest over the suspension of the revocatory referendum against the government of Nicolás Maduro.

Births

• 1427: Segismund of Austria, Austrian aristocrat (f. 1496).
• 1431: Hercules I de Este, an Italian aristocrat (f. 1505).
• 1543: Angela Serafina Prat, Spanish religious (f. 1608).
• 1564: Hans Leo Hassler, German composer and organist (f. 1612).
• 1611: Antonio Coello, Spanish author (f. 1652).
• 1673: Dimitrie Cantemir, aristocrat Moldovan (f. 1723).
• 1685: Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and carver (f. 1757).
• 1757: Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (f. 1823).
• 1759: Georges-Jacques Danton, a French politician (f. 1794).
• 1780: Manuel Frutos Rodríguez Poitier, priest, educator and Chilean parliamentarian (f. 1858).
• 1783: Jaime Alfonso el Barbudo, Spanish bandolero (f. 1824).
• 1785: Evaristo de San Miguel, a Spanish military man (f. 1862).
• 1790: Antonio Valero de Bernabé, a Puerto Rican military and patriot (f. 1863).
• 1795: Nicolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (f. 1872).
• 1800: Helmuth von Moltke German military (f. 1891).
• 1802: Michael I, aristocrat Portuguese, king between 1828 and 1834 (f. 1866).
• 1806: Ignacio Labastida, Mexican military (f. 1838).
• 1809: Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Dutch botanist (f. 1864).
• 1811: Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor, actor and businessman (f. 1875).
• 1828: Leonardo Murialdo Italian priest, founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph (Josephs of Murialdo) (f. 1900).
• 1835: Manuel José Olascoaga, military, engineer and Argentine explorer (f. 1911).
• 1842: Vasili Vereshchaguin, Russian painter (f. 1904).
• 1849: Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (f. 1917).
• 1856: José Ramón Mélida, Spanish archaeologist (f. 1933).
• 1856: José Ortega Munilla, Cuban-Spanish writer and journalist, father of the Spanish essayist and philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (f. 1922).
• 1859: Arthur Friedheim, pianist, director of Russian orchestra and composer (f. 1932).
• 1861: Richard Sears, American tennis player (f. 1943).
• 1862: Hilma af Klint, Swedish artist (f. 1944).

José Gregorio Hernández

• 1864: José Gregorio Hernández, a Venezuelan physician and scientist; currently recognized as Beato (f. 1919).
• 1865: Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (f. 1912).
• 1869: Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, Brazilian historian and politician, president of Brazil (f. 1957).
• 1874: Thomas Lowry, British physical and chemical (f. 1936).
• 1878: José Moscardó Ituarte, a Spanish military officer (f. 1956).
• 1880: Andréi Bely, Russian poet and novelist (f. 1934).
• 1880: Manuel Quintin Lame, Colombian indigenous leader (f. 1967).
• 1881: Dolores Cacuango Quilo, Ecuadorian activist for indigenous rights (f. 1971).
• 1882: John Leofric Stocks, British philosopher (f. 1937).
• 1900: Karin Boye, Swedish poet and novelist (f. 1941).
• 1901: Mark Sandrich, American filmmaker
• 1904: Josefina de Vasconcellos, English sculptor (f. 2005).
• 1906: Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (f. 1967).
• 1908: Miguel Otero Silva, Venezuelan writer, journalist and politician (f. 1985).
• 1908: Pilar Careaga Basabe, an engineer and a Spanish policy (f. 1993).
• 1909: Dante Quinterno, creator of Argentine comics, known by his character Patoruzú (f. 2003).
• 1911: Mahalia Jackson, American góspel contralto singer (f. 1972).
• 1912: Don Siegel, a mountaineer, producer and filmmaker (f. 1991).
• 1913: Charlie Barnet, American jazz musician (f. 1991).
• 1914: Jackie Coogan, American actor (f. 1984). Famous for acting together with Charles Chaplin in The Kid (1921) and for personifying Uncle Lucas in The Addams Family.
• 1915: Lindsay Pryor, Australian botanist (f. 1998).
• 1915: Ramón Sabatés i Massanell, Spanish historietista (f. 2003).

François Mitterrand

• 1916: François Mitterrand, French lawyer and politician, president between 1981 and 1995 (f. 1996).
• 1918: Diana Serra Cary, American actress and centenary (f. 2020).
• 1919: Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, an Iranian aristocrat and dictator, the last sah of Iran (f. 1980).
• 1919: Ashraf Pahlaví, queen vani, sister melliza of Mohammad Reza Pahlevi (f. 2016).
• 1919: Edward Brooke, American politician (f. 2015).
• 1920: Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Argentinian aviator (f. 2012).
• 1921: Elena Quiroga de Abarca, Spanish writer (f. 1995).
• 1922: Darcy Ribeiro, an anthropologist, writer and Brazilian politician (f. 1997).
• 1923: Joan Oró, Spanish biochemical (f. 2004).
• 1924: Máximo Pacheco Gómez, Chilean lawyer (f. 2012).
• 1925: James V. McConnell, biologist and U.S. animal psychologist (f. 1990).
• 1925: Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (f. 2007).
• 1926: Diana Ingro, Argentine actress (f. 2017).
• 1927: Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, Mexican politician (f. 2000).
• 1928: Francisco Solano López, Argentine hysterist (f. 2011).
• 1929: Cleofé Elsa Calderón, botanical Argentina (f. 2007).
• 1933: José Moreno, Spanish actor (f. 2007).
• 1934: Pepe Sánchez (director), director, screenwriter and actor of television, theater and Colombian cinema (f. 2016).
• 1934: Jacques Loussier, pianist and French composer (f. 2019).
• 1936: Shelley Morrison, American actress (f. 2019).
• 1937: Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect.
• 1940: José María Arancedo, Argentine bishop.

Bob Hoskins

• 1940: Ernesto Cisneros, Mexican footballer.
• 1942: Bob Hoskins, British actor (f. 2014).
• 1942: Milton Nascimento, Brazilian singer, composer and guitarist
• 1944: Fernando Ortiz Arana, Mexican lawyer and politician.
• 1945: Jaclyn Smith, American actress.
• 1947: Hillary Clinton, US policy.
• 1947: Christian Ude, German politician.
• 1948: Teddy Guzmán, Peruvian actress and singer.
• 1950: Ana María Cores, Argentinean actress and singer.
• 1950: Viviana Gorbato, an Argentine journalist and essayist (f. 2005).
• 1951: Bootsy Collins, bassist and American funk singer.
• 1951: Julian Schnabel, American filmmaker
• 1952: Lars Peter Hansen, an American economist.
• 1954: James Pickens Jr. American actor and producer
• 1955: Olivia Bucio, Mexican actress.
• 1955: Baltasar Garzón, Spanish judge.
• 1955: Laura Mintegi, Spanish writer.
• 1956: Rita Wilson, American actress.
• 1957: Manuel Rivas, writer, poet, essayist and Spanish journalist.
• 1958: Narcissus Agundez Montaño, Mexican politician.
• 1959: Evo Morales, Bolivian trade union and political leader, president of Bolivia between 2006 and 2019.
• 1961: Manuel Estiarte, Spanish water polo player.
• 1961: Dylan McDermott, American actor.
• 1961: Ana de Miguel, Spanish philosopher and writer
• 1961: Gustavo Polidor, Venezuelan baseball player (f. 1995).
• 1961: Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenyan President.
• 1962: Cary Elwes, British actor.
• 1962: Elkin Ramírez, musician, composer and Colombian singer (f. 2017).
• 1963: Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor and songwriter.
• 1963: Ted Demme, director of American cinema (f. 2002).
• 1963: Natalie Merchant, American singer.
• 1964: José Gregorio Vielma Mora, Venezuelan politician and military.
• 1965: Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress.
• 1966:
  • Zlatko Dalić, a football player and a Yugoslav-born Bosnian-croat trainer.
  • Steve Valentine, British actor.
• 1967: Keith Urban, New Zealand singer.
• 1968: Jesús Gómez Cos, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 1968: Robert Jarni, Croatian footballer.
• 1970: Lisa Ryder, Canadian actress.
• 1972: Daniel Elena, rally co-driver 9 times world champion
• 1972: Shan Sa, French-Chinese poet and novelist.

Seth MacFarlane

• 1973: Seth MacFarlane, cartoonist, screenwriter, producer, director and U.S. voice actor.
• 1973: Matías Santoianni, Argentine actor.
• 1975: Carlos Pardo, Spanish poet.
• 1977: Louis Crayton, Liberian footballer.
• 1978: Lisandro Aristimuño, musician and Argentine singer.
• 1978: Phil Brooks, "CM Punk", American professional fighter.
• 1979: Melanie Vallejo, Australian actress.
• 1980: Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer.
• 1981: Gabriela Sari, an Argentine actress.
• 1981: Girl Talk, American musician.
• 1982: Adam Carroll, British racing pilot.
• 1982: Caleb Folan, British footballer.
• 1983: Dmitri Sychov, Russian footballer.
• 1984: Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer.
• 1984: Jefferson Farfan, Peruvian footballer.
• 1984: Jesús Flores, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1985: Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player.
• 1985: Monta Ellis, American basketball player.
• 1985: Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress.
• 1986: Marco Rubén, Argentine footballer.
• 1987: Rafał Gikiewicz, Polish footballer.
• 1991: Blas Cantó, Spanish singer.
• 1995: Yuta Nakamoto, singer, dancer, Japanese rapper and NCT member

Deaths

• 899: Alfredo el Grande, English king (n. 847-849).
• 1243: Bernat Calbó, a Spanish religious (n. 1180).
• 1440: Gilles de Rais, French serial killer and marshal (n. 1405).
• 1580: Anna of Austria, Austrian aristocrat, wife of the Spanish king Philip II (n. 1549).
• 1608: Philipp Nicolai, German theologian (n. 1556).
• 1608: Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, a Spanish painter (n. 1553).
• 1620: Mahfiruz Hatice Hatun, consort of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I (n. 1590).
• 1764: William Hogarth, painter, engraver and English literate (n. 1697).
• 1802: Felipe González Ahedo, a Spanish military and cartographer (n. 1714).
• 1817: Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, doctor, biologist and Dutch botanist (n. 1727).
• 1874: Peter Cornelius, German composer and poet (n. 1824).
• 1890: Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and writer (f. 1826).
• 1890: Antonio Raimondi, Italian geographer (f. 1824).
• 1902: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist and feminist (n. 1815).
• 1906: Jan Dzierzon, priest, apicultor and Polish inventor (n. 1811).
• 1909: Itō Hirobumi, politician and Japanese prime minister (n. 1841).
• 1920: Mucio P. Martínez, Mexican military and political (n. 1841).
• 1922: Manuel Ramos Rejano, Ceramist and Spanish Industrial (n. 1851).
• 1929: Aby Warburg, German art historian and essayist (n. 1866).
• 1932: Margaret Brown, socialite, American social activist and philanthropist, survivor of the Titanic RMS (n. 1867).
• 1941: Masha Bruskina, a Soviet partisan (n. 1924).
• 1956: Walter Gieseking, pianist and Franco-German composer (n. 1895).
• 1957: Gerty Theresa Cori, Czech-American biochemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 (n. 1896).
• 1957: Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (n. 1883).
• 1959: Nikolaus von Vormann, German military (n. 1895).
• 1962: Louise Beavers, American actress (n. 1902).
• 1965: Sylvia Likens, murdered American girl (n. 1949).
• 1972: Igor Sikorski, Soviet aviator, pioneer of aviation (n. 1889).
• 1979: Park Chung-hee, politician, military and South Korean president (n. 1917).
• 1980: Martha Salotti, an Argentine educator and writer (n. 1899).
• 1982: Valerio Zurlini, Italian filmmaker (n. 1926).
• 1985: Emilio Guinea, Spanish botanist (n. 1907).
• 1990: Guillermo García González, a Cuban chessman, a national tricampion; a car accident (n. 1953).
• 1993: Angel J. Battistessa, Professor and Argentine Philologist (n. 1902).
• 2000: Jesus Bridge, a Spanish actor (n. 1930).
• 2001: Soraya Esfandiary, an Iranian aristocrat (n. 1932).
• 2002: Jacques Massu, French military (n. 1908).
• 2004: Beto Ávila, Mexican baseball player (1924).
• 2005: María Luisa Robledo, Argentine actress (n. 1912).
• 2005: Jany Holt, French actress (n. 1909).
• 2005: Rogers Becerra Casanovas, Bolivian musician (n. 1924).
• 2005: Mark Craney, drummer of Jethro Tull and Gino Vanelli (n. 1952).
• 2007: Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, nobel medical prize in 1959 (n. 1918).
• 2009: Sabino Fernández Campo, Spanish military (n. 1918).
• 2010: Francisco Garfias López, Spanish poet (n. 1921).
• 2010: Paul, octopus supposed football oracle (n. 2008).
• 2014: Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (n. 1992).
• 2019: Robert Evans, American Film Producer (n. 1930).
• 2020: Izat Ibrahim al Duri, Iraqi military (n. 1942).
• 2021: Roh Tae-woo, the South Korean military and political president of South Korea between 1988 and 1993 (n. 1932).
• 2021: Mort Sahl, comedian and American actor (n. 1929).

Celebrations

• World Day Against Acquired Brain Damage.
• International Burn Prevention Day
• Day of Consciousness for Intersexual Community
• AustriaAustria:
  • National Day
• BeninBenin:
  • Armed Forces Day
• BoliviaBolivia:
  • National Milk Day
• NauruNauru:
  • Day Angam

Catholic saints list

• San Amando de Argentorato
• San Aptonio de Anguleme
• San Beano de Mortlach
• San Ceda de Lastingham
• San Eata de Hexham
• San Evaristo
• San Felicisimo de Cartago
• San Fulco de Pavia
• Santa Gibitruda
• Saint Luciano of Bitinia
• San Marciano de Nicomedia
• San Rogaciano de Cartago
• San Rústico de Narbona
• San Sigebaldo de Metz
• San Witta de Büraburg
• Beato Buenaventura de Potenza
• Beato Damián Furcheri
• Beato José Gregorio Hernández