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How Far Can the Body Go? Scientists Find the Ultimate Limit of Human Endurance

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October 26, 2025

Even the most elite endurance athletes can’t outrun biology. A new study finds that humans hit a metabolic ceiling at about 2.5 times their resting energy burn. When ultra-runners take on races that last for hundreds of miles and continue for several days, they are not only challenging their mental endurance and physical strength. They […]

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This Common Organism Could Survive on Mars

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A team of Indian researchers has discovered that baker’s yeast can survive extreme Martian-like conditions involving high-intensity shock waves and toxic perchlorate salts. Baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is best known for its essential role in baking, brewing, and biotechnology. Yet this unassuming microorganism may also help scientists understand something far greater: how life might endure […]

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Tyrannical Tarquin The Proud: The Seventh And Last King Of Rome Was Banished

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A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The seventh and last king of Rome was Tarquin the Proud, who reigned between 535 BC–509 BC. Tarquin – a tyrant noted for his cruelty – had ruled Rome for more than twenty years after murdering the previous king, Servius Tullius, and seizing his throne.

The Tarquins’ royal dynasty was of Etruscan heritage; they were influential in the region, ruling from around 616 BC to 510 BC. The Etruscans, who were in many ways more advanced than the Romans at this time, extended their power southward.

Tarquinius ruled wisely and dynamically; he ordered the draining of swamps and marshes, diverting their waters to the Tiber River, and he employed the city’s sewers and built an open market area.

Many temples were built throughout the city, including the Temple to Jupiter, established in 509 BC, just after the last Etruscan king was dethroned.

Nonetheless, he was a reckless ruler who officially continued his father’s work. Still, he wanted to break the Senate’s power, and by acting as a ruler of violence and terror, he sought to secure his government.

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Scientists Discover How Leukemia Cells “Cheat Death” and Evade Treatment

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Scientists have discovered how leukemia cells outsmart a leading treatment and may have found a way to stop them. Scientists from Rutgers Health and collaborating institutions have uncovered why a widely used leukemia drug stops working for many patients and have identified a possible method to reverse that resistance. The research team found that a […]

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Take a virtual tour inside a 17th c. Dutch doll’s house – The History Blog

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Last week, the Rijksmuseum opened a new exhibition, At Home in the 17th Century, an immersive look on the domestic life of the Dutch Golden Age. It consists of nine diorama-style galleries designed by artist Steef de Jong that allow visitors to experience life in the 17th century home progressing from morning to night.

The exhibition zooms in on the lives of a variety of people, such as the Boudaen Courten family from Zeeland province. Many items belonging to members of this family have survived, including gilded furniture, portraits and one very remarkable relic: a bladder stone retrieved in a major medical procedure. All these objects will be on view together for the first time in centuries. We also take a peek into the world of the Utrecht artist Joachim Wtewael. In 1628 he painted a portrait of his daughter Eva, seated at a table that still exists. The painting presents Eva as the epitome of the ideal housewife, with a sewing cushion on her lap and a prayer book on the table. This vision of her future unfortunately never became reality. She died seven years after the completion of the painting and never married. The painting will be on show together with the table and the matching linen cupboard.

The exhibition takes a multifaceted look at how people lived in the 17th century. Together with Archeologie West-Friesland, the curators have studied the contents of the 17th-century cesspit at the home of the mayor of Hoorn and his family, the Soncks. The cookware, the crockery and the food waste tell us the story of what was on the family dining table, offering detailed insights into their eating habits. Cesspits found on Vlooienburg island in Amsterdam, by contrast, reveal that Portuguese immigrants to the city brought with them their own earthenware, and their own flavours.

The Doll’s House of Petronella Oortman is the centerpiece of the exhibition. Created in the late 17th century into the early 18th (ca. 1686 – ca. 1710), the doll’s house was not a toy or playhouse. It had tiny dolls in it, most of them now lost, alas, but they were not for kids to play pretend with. It was a meticulously rendered miniature version of a wealthy home of the period. Every possible detail was included, from sewing scissors to wallpaper to books of real music.

To celebrate this masterpiece of miniaturization, the museum has created a masterpiece of digital experience: an online tour of the house guided by the voice of Helena Bonham Carter. The online exhibition brings you inside every room of the doll’s house. It’s like Fantastic Voyage only you’ve been shrunk to fit into an elegant 17th century Dutch interior instead of the body of an injured scientist. The art on the walls, the wood paneling, the cane chairs, the cushions, the door knobs, the 1cm teacups, the porcelain spittoons on the floor next to the game table with a backgammon round in progress, the books, a curio cabinet full of tiny shells, the fruit on the kitchen counter, the fully-stocked cellar hidden in a drawer, baskets of peat briquets to burn for cooking and heating, a working threaded spinning wheel, monogrammed linen napkins, everything is jaw-droppingly realistic rendering in detail. You can’t even tell it’s miniaturized when you’re inside the house.

After the introduction, you can click on individual rooms to navigate, or you can play the whole tour and go along for the ride with Helena Bonham Carter as your guide. I highly recommend the latter, because the planned route is smartly laid out with a consistent through-line and clear transitions.

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Famous Deaths on October 26

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578 Moon Jaguar, 10th ruler of the Maya city of Copán (in modern Honduras), dies after a reign of 25 years

Anglo-Saxon monarch who was King of Wessex and King of the Anglo-Saxons, dies at 50 or 51 [1]

1132 Floris the Black, brother of Dirk VI, Count of Holland, murdered
1235 Andres II Arpad, King of Hungary (1205-35), dies
1440 Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged
1576 Frederick II the Vrome, ruler of Palts, dies
1580 Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain, dies at 30
1607 Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran pastor, poet, composer and hymnodist, dies at 52
1608 Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies
1633 Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1640 Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor and architect (Aanbidding of the Point), dies at 63
1658 Francisco de Borja y Aragon Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies
1661 Johann Baltasar Schupp, German poet, historian and vicar, dies at 51
1671 Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts, dies at 66
1678 John Jenkins, English composer, dies at about 86
1679 Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist, dies at 58
1686 John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician and nobleman, dies at 63
1693 Coenraad van Beuningen, Dutch Mayor of Amsterdam and diplomat, dies at 71
1706 Andreas Werkmeister, German organist, musical theorist, and Baroque composer, dies at 60
1717 Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1733 Antonio Veracini, Italian violinist and Baroque composer, dies at 74
1749 Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72
1751 Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist clergyman, dies at 49
1756 Johann Theodor Römhild, German organist and composer, chiefly of sacred music, dies at 72
1764 William Hogarth, English satiric painter and engraver (Rake’s Progress), dies at 66
1773 Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, Viscount Trentham, English politician in the House of Lords, dies at 82
1806 John Graves Simcoe, British Army general and 1st Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1791-96), dies at 54
1817 Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian botanist and family friend of Mozart, dies at 90
1819 Thomas Johnson, American lawyer, militia commander, politician (delegate to the First Continental Congress, 1st Governor of Maryland, 1977-79), and jurist (US Supreme Court Justice, 1791-93), dies at 86
1823 Josef Preindl, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 67
1828 Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist and founder of modern scientific agriculture (Principles of Rational Agriculture), dies at 76 [1] [2]
1854 Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, German Queen of Bavaria as consort of King Ludwig I, Oktoberfest created for her wedding, dies at 62
1858 Isac Baker Woodbury, American composer, and musicologist (The Dulcimer: Or the New York Collection of Sacred Music), dies at 39

American Civil War Pro-Confederate rebel guerrilla leader (Lawrence Massacre, Centralia Massacre), killed in battle by union troops at 23 or 24

1866 John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1867 John Fawcett, English composer, dies at 77
1868 Benjamin F. Randolph, American minister and politician (South Carolina state senator), assassinated by members of the KKK at about 48
1870 Joseph Saxton, American inventor, watchmaker, and photographer, dies at 74
1874 Peter Cornelius, German composer and teacher (The Barber of Baghdad), dies of liver issues at 49

1881 Billy Clanton, brother of outlaw Ike Clanton, dies in the gunfight at the OK Corral at 19

Italian writer (The Adventures of Pinocchio), dies at 63

1896 Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French politician, historian and ambassador to Switzerland (1879) and London (1880-82), dies at 69 [1]

1903 Herbert Oakeley, English composer, dies at 73
1903 Victorin de Joncières, French composer (Dimitiri), and music critic, dies at 64
1908 John Miller, American farmer and politician (1st Governor of North Dakota, 1889-91), dies at 64

1916 Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker’s Union Leader, dies at 83
1918 César Ritz, Swiss hotelier, opened the Ritz Hotels in Paris and London, dies at 68
1923 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-American electrical engineer (development of alternating current), dies at 58
1929 Arno Holz, German writer (Phantasus), dies at 66
1930 Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and thoroughbred horse breeder, dies at 58
1930 Waldemar Haffkine, Ukrainian bacteriologist (1st to develop and use vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague), dies at 70
1931 Charles Comiskey, American Baseball HOF infielder (St. Louis Brown Stockings/Browns), team owner (Chicago White Sox) and manager (St. Louis Browns), dies at 72
1935 Akos Buttykai, Hungarian composer, dies at 64
1936 Bob Dellemijn, Lourdes-ganger/Franco-volunteer, dies in battle at 18
1936 Rodney Heath, Australian tennis player (Australasian C’ship 1905, 10), dies of stomach cancer at 52
1937 Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies, dies at 70
1941 Arkady Gaidar, Russian Soviet children’s writer, killed in combat at 37
1941 Victor Schertzinger, American composer and director (Uptown NY), dies at 53
1943 Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-British archaeologist, dies at 80
1944 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 William Temple, English Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 63
1945 Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician, dies at 82
1945 Paul Pelliot, French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and his discovery of many important Chinese texts among the Dunhuang manuscripts, dies at 67
1947 Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)

1st African American actress to win an Oscar (Gone With The Wind -“Mammy”), dies of breast cancer at 57

1952 Myrtle McAteer, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1900), dies at 74
1954 Floris Prims, Flemish priest (historian (archivist of Antwerp), dies at 72
1955 Anthony Ross [Rosenthal], American stage (Bus Stop), and screen character actor (The Telltale Clue), dies of a heart attack at 46
1955 Arne Eggen, Norwegian composer, dies at 74
1956 Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist, composer, and lepidopterist, dies at 60
1957 Níkos Kazantzákis, prominent Greek writer and philosopher (Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ), dies at 74
1960 (Francis Drake) “Pat” Ballard, American songwriter (“Mr. Sandman”, “Love Is Mine”), lyricist, script writer, and columnist, dies of a heart attack at 61
1961 Edgar Mayne, Australian cricketer (4 Tests for Australia around WWI), dies at 79
1961 Milan Stojadinović, Serbian-Yugoslav political figure and 12th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73
1962 Louise Beavers, American actress (Beulah-Beulah), dies at 60
1964 Agnes Miegel, German Nazi Party member, writer and poet (Gedichte), dies at 85
1965 Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (Bavarian State Opera, 1922-36), dies at 77
1965 Sylvia Likens, American torture and murder victim (tortured for three months), murdered at 16
1966 Alma Cogan, British pop singer (“Dreamboat”; “I Can’t Tell a Waltz from a Tango”), dies of ovarian cancer at 34
1971 Robert Gordon, American silent film actor (Hearts and Spangles; King of the Pack), dies at 76
1971 Vincent Coleman, American actor (For the Freedom of Ireland, Salome), dies at 71

Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, dies at 83

1975 Herman van San, Belgian classical and electro-acoustic composer, dies at 46
1978 George “Jackie” Grant, West Indian cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies at 71
1979 Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and President (1963-79), assassinated by the director of the Korean Intelligence Agency at 61
1980 Marcello Caetano, last Portuguese prime minister of the Estado Novo regime (1968-1974), dies in exile of a heart attack at 74
1982 Giovanni Benelli, Italian archbishop of Florence and Pope candidate, dies at 61
1983 Mike Michalske, American Pro Football HOF guard (NFL C’ship 1929, 30, 31; 7 × First-team All-Pro; Green Bay Packers), dies at 80
1984 Gus Mancuso, American baseball catcher (World Series 1931, 33; MLB All Star 1935, 37; NY Giants, St. Louis Cardinals) and broadcaster (Cardinals’ radio network), dies from emphysema at 78
1984 John Woods Duke, American composer, dies at 85
1984 Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author, singer-songwriter (Ahora Maxda), dancer, and feminist activist, (Woman Power), dies of cervical cancer at 37
1984 Sue Randall, actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49
1985 Bob Scheffing, American baseball catcher (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds), manager (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers) and executive (GM NY Mets 1970-74), dies at 72
1985 Karel Kupka, Czech composer and choirmaster, dies at 58
1986 Jackson Scholz, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m 1920, 200m 1924), dies at 89
1988 Herman Strategier, Dutch organist, conductor, and composer (Rembrandt Cantata; Shadow Out of Time), dies at 76
1989 Andy Roberts, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (7 Tests, 1 x 50, 4 wickets; Northern Districts, Waikato, Hamilton & Bay of Plenty), dies at 42
1989 Charles J. Pedersen, American organic biochemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1987), dies at 85
1990 Guus Jansen, Dutch pianist, Hammond organist, and popular song composer (“Net als Toen” – Eurovison, 1957), dies at 79
1990 William Samuel Paley, American president and CEO of CBS (1928-90), dies of a heart attack at 89
1991 Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist’s 485 lb umbrella
1992 (Dorothy) “Dottie” Green, American AAGPBL baseball player (Rockford Peaches), dies of cancer at 71
1992 Jerome Andrews, American-French dancer and choreographer, dies at 84
1992 Laurel Cronin, actor (Beethoven, Housesitter), dies of cancer at 53
1993 Absolutely Nobody [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
1993 H Hardenberg, writer, dies
1993 Harold Rome, American musical theater composer (Fanny; Pins and Needles), dies at 85
1994 Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
1994 Tutta Rolf, actress (Whalers), dies at 87
1994 Wilbert Harrison, American R&B singer (“Kansas City”), dies at 65
1995 Agha Saadat Ali, Pakistani cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies at 66
1995 Bernhard Heiliger, German artist and sculptor, dies at 79
1995 Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
1995 John Sangster, Australian jazz composer (The Hobbit Suite), dies at 66
1996 Hans Kosterlitz, German-British biochemist (endorphins), dies at 93
1996 Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, British philanthropist, dies at 95
1999 Hoyt Axton, American songwriter, singer (“No No Song”; “Joy To The World”; “I’ve Never Been To Spain”), and actor (McCloud; Gremlins; The Rousters), dies of a heart attack at 61
2002 Jacques Massu, French general who led Battle of Algiers, dies at 94
2002 Movsar Barayev, Chechen Islamist militia leader during the Second Chechen War, dies at 23
2003 Roberto Garcia Morillo, Argentine composer and music critic, dies at 92
2004 Bobby Ávila, Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (MLB All-Star 1952, 54, 55; AL batting champion 1954; Cleveland Indians), dies of diabetes and lung ailment at 80
2005 David Townsend, American session and touring R&B guitarist (Isley Brothers; Port Authority; Surface – “Shower Me With Your Love”), and songwriter, dies at 50
2005 Keith Parkinson, American fantasy artist, dies of Leukemia at 47
2005 Richard Southwood, English zoologist and vice-chancellor of Oxford University, dies at 74
2006 Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2006 Tillman Franks, American country music bassist, songwriter and artist manager (Webb Pierce), dies at 86
2007 Amanda Ambrose, American jazz singer and music educator (Voicercise), dies at 82
2007 Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist (1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of DNA polymerase), dies at 89
2007 Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American TV chef (Chef Tell), dies at 63

2007 Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2008 Delmar Watson, American child actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Heidi, Annie Oakley), dies at 82
2008 Tony Hillerman, American writer Navajo Tribal Police), dies at 83
2009 George Na’ope, Hawaiian-American musician, dancer and heritage preservationist, dies of cancer at 81
2009 Teel Bivins, American politician (b. 1947)
2010 Glen “Frosty” Little, American circus clown (Ringling Brothers, 1968-91), and instructor (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, 1980-87), dies at 84
2010 John King, American rock drummer (Steve Miller Band, 1972-74), dies at 63
2010 Mbah Maridjan, Mount Merapi gatekeeper (b. 1927)
2010 Romeu Tuma, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)
2011 Daniel B. Burke, American media executive who helped spearhead the acquisition of ABC by Capital Cities, dies of complications from Type 1 diabetes at 82
2012 Alan Stretton, Australian general who managed the response to Cyclone Tracey in Darwin, dies at 90
2014 Jeff Robinson, American baseball player, dies at 52
2016 Stuart Edwards, British guitarist (Edison Lighthouse – “Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes”), dies of cancer at 73
2018 György Károly, Hungarian poet and author, dies of cancer at 65

Leader of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), detonates a suicide vest after being cornered by US special forces and dies at 48

2019 Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete, and first woman to light the Olympic Cauldron (Mexico City, 1968), dies of pneumonia at 71
2019 Paul Barrere, American rock guitarist (Little Feat – “Time Loves a Hero”), dies of liver cancer at 71

2020 Stan Kesler, American session musician (Sun Studio), songwriter (“I Forgot to Remember to Forget”), and record producer (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs -“Wooly Bully”), dies of bone cancer at 92
2021 Glen Tuckett American college baseball coach (Brigham Young Uni 1959-76) and administrator (BYU athletic director 1976-94), dies at 93
2021 Mort Sahl, American stand-up comedian, political satirist, writer, and TV personality (The Big Party), dies at 94 [1]
2021 Roh Tae-Woo, South Korean army general and politician (6th President South Korea, 1988-93), dies at 88
2021 Umberto Colombo, Italian soccer midfielder (3 caps; Juventus, Atalanta), dies at 88
2021 Walter Smith, Scottish football manager (Rangers, Everton; Scotland 2004-07), dies at 73
2022 Lucianne Goldberg, American journalist, author, and ‘key player’ in the 1998 impeachment of President Clinton, dies from liver and kidney failure at 87
2022 Michael Basman, English International Chess Master and author (The Killer Grob, Chess for Beginners), dies from pancreatic cancer at 76
2023 Guy Camberabero, French rugby union flyhalf (14 Tests 110 points; ROC La Voulte Sportif, US Tyrosse RUC), dies at 87
2023 Richard Moll, American actor (Night Court – “Bull”; House – “Big Ben”; Dungeonmaster), dies at 80

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Famous Birthdays on October 26

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1768 Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician, born in Radzyń Podlaski, Poland (d. 1844)
1789 Joseph Mayseder, Austrian violinist and composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1863)
1791 Charles Sprague, American banker and poet (Curiosity), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1875)
1794 Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (Grand Kremlin Palace), born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1881)
1795 Nikolaos Mantzaros, Italian-Greek composer, born in Corfu Island, Greece (d. 1872)
1800 Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian general and fieldmarshal, born in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1891)

King of Portugal (1828-34), born in Palace of Queluz, Sintra, Portugal

1804 Lorenzo Thomas, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New Castle, Delaware (d. 1875)
1813 Henry Smart, English organist and composer, born in London (d. 1879)
1818 Stefano Golinelli, Italian pianist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1891)
1823 Karl Weinhold, German sociologist (founder of Journal of the Association of Folklore), born in Dzierżoniów, Poland (d. 1901)
1824 Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1886)
1830 Polibo Fumagalli, Italian organist, pianist, and composer, born in Inzago, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire (d. 1900)
1830 Stephen Elliott, Jr., Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Beaufort, South Carolina (d. 1866)
1837 James Lawlor Kieran, Irish-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Mountbellew, County Galway (d. 1869)
1843 Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), born in Cherepovets, Russia (d. 1904)
1845 Hendrik Waelput, Flemish composer and conductor (Forest, Stella), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1885)
1849 Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae), born in Charlotteburg, Berlin, Germany (d. 1917)
1854 August Kiehl, Dutch actor (Op hoop van zegen, De kribbebijter), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1938)
1854 C. W. Post, American manufacturer of breakfast cereals, born in Springfield, Illinois (d. 1914)
1859 Arthur Friedheim, Russian composer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1932)
1859 Frank Selee, American Baseball HOF manager (5 x NL C’ship Boston Beaneaters; Chicago Orphans/Cubs), born in Amherst, New Hampshire (d. 1909)

American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1881-87), born in Boston, Massachusetts

1864 Joseph Moorat, British composer (Prunella), born in England (d. 1938)
1865 Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman, prominent passenger aboard the RMS Titanic, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1912)
1866 William “Kid” Gleason, American baseball utility (St. Louis Browns, NY Giants, Philadelphia Phillies) and manager (Chicago White Sox, during “Black Sox” scandal), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 1933)
1869 August Halm, German composer, born in Vellberg, Germany (d. 1929)
1869 Washington Luís, President of Brazil (1926-30), born in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro (d. 1957)
1871 Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer and father of Frida Kahlo, born in Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (d. 1941)
1871 Hermann Löhr, British composer, born in Plymouth, England (d. 1943)
1873 Thorvald Stauning, Danish tarde unionist (leader of Cigar Sorters’ Union, 1896-1908), and politician (Prime Minister of Denmark, 1924-26 and 1929-42; Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, 1910-39), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1942)
1874 Martin Lowry, English chemist (Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory), born in Low Moor, Bradford (d. 1936)
1875 H. B. Warner, British actor (Sunset Boulevard, The King of Kings), born in London, England (d. 1958)
1878 William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American member of the Vanderbilt family and motor racing enthusiast, born in New York (d. 1944)
1880 Andrei Bely [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev], Russian writer (Petersburg), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1934)
1881 Margaret Wycherly, British actress (Keeper of the Flame), born in London, England (d. 1956)
1883 Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher (Think and Grow Rich), born in Pound, Virginia (d. 1970)
1883 Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (Olympic gold 1904, 06), born in New York City (d. 1958)
1886 Hermann Unger, German composer, music journalist, pedagogue and administrator (Rheinische Musikschule), born in Kamenz, Germany (d. 1958)
1886 Mark Aldanov, Russian-French writer and critic (Novy Zhurnal), born in Kiev (d. 1957)
1888 Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader, born in Hulai-Pole, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
1888 Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Segrande Eros), born in Helsinki (d. 1925)
1893 Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe), born in Csongrád, Austria-Hungary (d. 1977)
1894 John S Knight, American journalist and publisher (Knight Newspapers), born in Bluefield, West Virginia (d. 1981)
1898 Beryl Rubinstein, American pianist and composer, born in Athens, Georgia (d. 1952)
1899 (William) “Judy” Johnson, American Baseball HOF third baseman (NgL World Series 1925 Hilldale AC; NgL All-Star 1933, 1936 Pittsburgh Crawfords), born in Snow Hill, Maryland (d. 1989)
1900 Ibrahim Abboud, 1st President and 4th Prime Minister of Sudan (1958-64), born in Suakin, Sudan (d. 1983)
1900 Karin Boye, writer (Kallocain), born in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1941)
1900 Mark Sandrich [Goldstein], American film director, writer and producer (The Gay Divorcee; Top Hat; Holiday Inn), born in New York City (d. 1945)
1902 Beryl Markham (née Clutterbuck), British-Kenyan; racehorse trainer, aviator, and memoirist, born in Ashwell, Rutland, England (d. 1986)
1902 Hugh Chilvers, Australian cricketer (great leggie of 30’s for NSW but not Aust), born in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1994)
1902 Jack Sharkey, American boxer (NYSAC, NBA and lineal heavyweight champion 1932-33), born in Binghamton, New York (d. 1994)
1905 George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal, born in Paris, Ontario, Canada (d. 1989)
1907 Giovanni Salviucci, Italian composer, born in Rome, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1937)
1910 John Krol, American former archbishop of Philadelphia (1961-88), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1996)

American gospel singer (“Move On Up a Little Higher”,”Whole World In His Hands”), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

1911 Sid Gillman, Pro & College Football Hall of Fame end (Ohio State U) and coach (U of Cincinnati, LA Rams, Houston Oilers), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2003)
1911 Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (Poems to Eimhir and Other Poems), born in Osgaig, Raasay, Scotland (d. 1996)
1912 Don Siegel, American film director (Escape from Alcatraz, Shootist), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1991)
1913 Stuart J. Byrne, American sci-fi author (Star Man, God Man), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2011)
1914 Claude Jeter, American gospel music singer (The Swan Silvertones), born in Montgomery, Alabama (d. 2009)

American actor (The Addams Family – “Uncle Fester”; The Kid; Oliver Twist), born in Los Angeles, California

1914 Sasha Argov [Alexander Abramovich], Israeli composer, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1995)
1915 Golfredo Corradetti, Canadian conductor and composer, born in Calgary, Alberta; (d. 1995)

1917 Mario Biaggi, American politician (Rep-D&R-NY, 1969-88), born in New York (d. 2015)
1918 (George) “Snuffy” Stirnweiss, American MLB baseball second baseman, 1943-52, 2X All-Star. AL Batting Title, 3X World Series (New York Yankess and 2 other teams), born in New York City (d. 1958)
1918 Ivor Francis, Canadian-American radio, stage, and screen character actor (Dusty’s Trail; The Prisoner of Second Avenue), and acting teacher, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1986)
1918 Kamal El Mallakh, Egyptian archaeologist (discovered King Khufu Solar ship), and journalist, born in Upper Egypt (d. 1987)

American politician and 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate (R-Mass: 1967-79), born in Washington, D.C.

last Shah of Iran (Persia) (1941-79), born in Tehran, Persia

1920 T. C. Jones, American female impersonator, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 1971)
1921 George Forrest, Northern Irish politician, born in Cookstown, Northern Ireland (d. 1968)
1924 Shaw Taylor, British actor and television presenter (Police 5), born in Hackney, London, England (d. 2015)
1924 Tex Coulter, American NFL defensive lineman (All Pro 1948, 51-52; Pro Bowl 1951-52; NY Giants), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2007)
1924 Tom Lewis, American politician (Rep-R-Florida, 1983-93), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
1925 Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor and novelist (Turks fruit (Turkish Delight); Kort Amerikaans (Crew Cut)), born in Oegstgeest, Netherlands (d. 2007)
1926 Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russian cosmonaut, born in Tomsk, Russia (d. 1983)
1927 Janet Moreau Stone, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1952), born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (d. 2021)
1928 Francisco Solano López, Argentine comic artist, born in Buenos Aires (d. 2011)
1929 Airlene Evans, 1st American child born in a flying aircraft, born in the skies above Miami, Florida [1]
1929 Georgette Amowitz, French choreographer and educator, born in Paris, France (d. 2008)
1929 Hans Peter Haller, German composer, born in Radolfzell, Germany (d. 2006)
1929 Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2000)
1929 Roland Hemond, American baseball executive (GM Chicago White Sox 1970–85; Baltimore Orioles 1988–95), born in Central Falls, Rhode Island (d. 2021)
1930 John Arden, English novelist and playwright (Left Handed Liberty), born in Barnsley, England (d. 2012)
1931 Hank Garrett [Henry Weinblatt], American actor (Car 54 Where Are You?; Three Days of the Condor), and professional wrestler (The Minnesota Farm Boy), born in Monticello, New York
1932 Anthony Beilenson, American politician (Rep-D-California, 1977-97), born in New York (d. 2017)
1933 André Van Herpe, Belgian soccer midfielder who played 7 internationals; ARA La Gantoise 1952-62, born in Eine, Belgium (d. 2024)
1934 Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German electronic and ambient music composer, keyboardist, and synthesizer player (Cluster; Harmonia), born in Berlin, Germany
1934 Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer who created jazz arrangements of Bach and other classical music, born in Angers, France (d. 2019)
1934 Ulrich Plenzdorf, German writer (Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.), born in Berlin (d. 2007)
1935 Renato Casaro, Italian movie poster designer (A Fistful of Dollars, Conan the Barbarian), born in Treviso, Italy (d. 2025) [1]
1936 Al Casey, American rock and session guitarist (Duane Eddy; The Wrecking Crew), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2006)
1936 Bruce Belland, American singer (Tim Conway Hour), born in Chicago, Illinois
1936 Shelley Morrison, American actress (General Hospital, Will & Grace), born in New York City (d. 2019)
1937 Dave Gavitt, American basketball coach, formed Basketball’s Big East Conference (1979), born in Westerly, Rhode Island (d. 2011)
1938 Bernadette Lafont, French actress (Perils of Gwendoline), born in Nimes, France (d. 2013)
1938 Charles Stenholm, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1979-2005), born in Stamford, Texas (d. 2023)
1938 Graham Serjeant, British doctor and researcher known for his work on sickle cell disease in Jamaica, born in Bristol, England (d. 2025)
1939 Vladimir Mikhailovich Beloborodov, Russian cosmonaut, born in Oloviyanna, Chita Region, Russia
1940 Gennadi Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11, TM-21), born in Mytishchi, Soviet Union (d. 2004)
1940 Mario Orozco, American 1st victim of NYC’s Zodiac killer (survives), birthplace unknown
1941 Harald Nielsen, Danish soccer forward (14 caps; Olympic silver 1960; Frederikshavn fI, Bologna FC), born in Frederikshavn, Denmark (d. 2015)
1942 Bob Hoskins, English actor (Who Framed Roger Rabbit), born in Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, England (d. 2014)
1942 Colin Loughnan, Australian rock and jazz saxophonist, vocalist, arranger, composer, and teacher (Sydney Conservatorium of Music), born in Sydney, Australia
1942 Dietmar Polaczek, Austrian composer and writer, born in Bendsburg, Upper Silesia (now Będzin, Poland)
1944 Kenny Ascher, American jazz pianist, composer (“Rainbow Connection”), and arranger (John Lennon), born in Washington, D.C.
1944 Mike Piano, American folk-rock singer (The Sandpipers – “Guantanamera”, “Come Saturday Morning”), born in Rochester, New York (d. 2014)
1944 Ries Smits, Dutch economist and politician (CDA), born in Tricht, Netherlands
1945 Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author, born in Thessaloniki, Greece

1945 American actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity), born in Houston, Texas

1945 Pat Conroy, American writer (The Great Santini, Prince of Tides), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2016)
1946 Holly Woodlawn, transgender Puerto Rican actress (Warhol films), born in Juana Díaz (d. 2015)
1946 Keith Hopwood, British rock guitarist (Herman’s Hermits – “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter”), born in Davyhulme, Manchester, England
1946 Maureen Anderman, American actress (Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale), born in Detroit, Michigan

1946 American TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show), born in Chicago, Illinois

1947 US 1st Lady (1993-2001), Senator (NY, 2001-09), Secretary of State (2009-13) and 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee, born in Chicago, Illinois

1947 Ian Ashley, British racing driver, born in Wuppertal, Germany
1947 John Robbins, American advocate for vegetarianism and author of “Diet for a New America”, born in Glendale, California (d. 2025)
1947 Marilyn Middleton Pollock, American jazz and blues singer, born in Chicago, Illinois
1947 Trevor Joyce, Irish poet (The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine), born in Dublin, Ireland
1948 Marshall Colt, American actor (Eric-Lottery), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1950 Andy Haden, New Zealand rugby union lock (41 Tests; 117 All Black games, 8 as captain; Auckland), born in Wanganui, New Zealand (d. 2020)
1950 Chuck Foreman, American football running back (First-team All-Pro 1975, 76; 5 × Pro Bowl; NFL receptions leader 1975; Minnesota Vikings), born in Frederick, Maryland
1950 T. E. Srinivasan, Indian cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), born in Chennai, India
1951 (William) “Bootsy” Collins, American guitarist and singer (James Brown; Parliament-Funkadelic), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1951 Julian Schnabel, American artist and director (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), born in Brooklyn, New York
1951 Maggie Roche, Irish-American singer-songwriter (The Roches – “Hammond Song”), born in Park Ridge, New Jersey (d. 2017)
1952 Abbas al-Musawi, influential Lebanese Shia cleric, and founder and leader of Hezbollah, born in Al-Nabi Shayth, Lebanon (d. 1992)
1952 Andrew Motion, English poet (British Poet Laureate 1999-2009), born in London
1952 Andy Richards, British-Australian session and touring keyboard player (“Relax”; “Careless Whisper”), and producer, born in London, England
1952 David Was [Weiss], American rock musician and producer (Was (Not Was) – “Walk The Dinosaur”), born in Detroit, Michigan
1953 Jennifer Roberson, American sci-fi author (Shapechangers, Sword-Maker), born in Kansas City, Missouri
1953 Julian Keith Strickland, American drummer (B-52’s – “Rock Lobster”), born in Athens, Georgia
1953 Lauren Tewes, American actress (Julie McCoy-Love Boat), born in Braddock, Pennsylvania
1953 Rosa Monckton, English businesswoman and notable charity fundraiser, born in Westminster, London
1954 Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, Mozambican politician, Prime Minister of Mozambique (2015-), born in Maxixe, Mozambique
1954 D. W. Moffett, American actor (Fine Things, Lisa, Chicago Sons), born in Highland Park, Illinois
1954 Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
1955 Christine Brewer, American operatic soprano, born in Grand Tower, Illinois
1955 Stephen K Robinson, American PhD, and astronaut (STS 85, sk:95), born in Sacramento, California
1956 Mike LeDonne, American jazz Hammond organist, pianist, and composer (Benny Golson; The Groover Quartet), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut
1956 Pedro Sarmiento, Colombian soccer midfielder (37 caps; Atlético Nacional 346 games, América de Cali SA), born in Medellín, Colombia (d. 2024)
1956 Regina Benjamin, 18th US Surgeon General (2009-13), born in Mobile, Alabama

1956 American actress, singer, and film producer (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), born in Los Angeles, California

1956 Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman and 1st CEO of Australian Defence Materiel Organisation, born in Tasmania, Australia
1957 Bob Golic, American football player, born in Cleveland, Ohio
1958 Bassam Saba, Lebanese violinist, oud, and nay player (New York Arabic Orchestra; Silk Road Ensemble), born in Tripoli, Lebanon (d. 2020)
1959 Brian Bovell, British actor (Gimme Gimme Gimme, Hollyoaks), born in London

1959 Bolivian politician and 80th President of Bolivia (2006-2019), born in Isallawi, Bolivia

1959 François Chau, Cambodian actor (Ghost of Tsushima, Lost), born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
1961 Dylan McDermott, American actor (The Practice, American Horror Story), born in Waterbury, Connecticut

1961 Kenyan Prime Minister (2013-2022) and son of Jomo Kenyatta, born in Nairobi, Kenya

1962 Cary Elwes, English actor (Glory; The Princess Bride), born in London, England
1962 Roger Kingdom, American 110m hurdler (Olympic gold 1984, 88), born in Vienna, Georgia
1962 Steve Wren, British pop-rock drummer (Then Jericho – “The Motive”), born in Lambeth, London, England
1963 Craig Shakespeare, English soccer coach (WBA, Leicester CIty) and midfielder (Walsall 284 games), born in Birmingham, England (d. 2024)
1963 Natalie Merchant, American singer-songwriter (10,000 Maniacs – “These Are Days”; “Trouble Me”), born in Jamestown, New York
1963 Ted Demme, American film and television director, born in New York City (d. 2002)
1963 Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor and producer (Ed, Scrubs), born in Ottawa, Ontario
1963 Tony Casillas, American NFL defensive tackle (NY Jets, Dallas Cowboys), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1964 Charles Parnell, American actor (The Killer, Top Gun: Maverick), born in Hyde Park, Chicago
1964 Lawson Duncan, American tennis star, born in Asheville, North Carolina
1964 Vencie Glenn, American NFL safety (NY Giants), born in Grambling, Louisiana
1965 Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer, born in Hong Kong
1965 Gil Heredia, American MLB pitcher (Texas Rangers), born in Nogales, Arizona
1965 Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress (Kirsten Cohen in “The O.C.”), born in Ottawa, Ontario
1965 Ken Rutherford, New Zealand cricket batsman and captain (56 Tests, 3 x 100, HS 107no; Otago, Transvaal/Gauteng), born in Dunedin, New Zealand
1965 Kim Cooper, Australian softball 3rd baseman and shortstop (Olympic bronze 1996), born in Parramatta, Australia
1965 Mark McLoughlin, Canadian football placekicker (CFL All Star 1994, 96, 99; Grey Cup 1992, 98, 2001; Calgary Stampeders), born in Liverpool, England
1965 Sakari Oramo, Finnish conductor (City of Birmingham Symphony, 1998-2008; Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, 2008-21; BBC Symphony, 2013-23), born in Helsinki, Finland
1966 Alex Pastoor, Dutch soccer midfielder (FC Volendam, Heerenveen) and manager (Slavia Prague, Sparta Rotterdam), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1966 Jeanne Zelasko, American journalist and sportcaster, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1966 Masaharu Iwata, Japanese video game composer (Tekkan 6, Final Fantasy Xll), born in Tokyo, Japan
1966 Olga Bicherova, Soviet gymnast (won title at 15 yrs 33 days), born in Moscow, Russian SFSR
1966 Steve Valentine, Scottish actor (Crossing Jordan), born in Bishopbriggs, Scotland
1967 Bobby Houston, American NFL linebacker (NY Jets), born in Washington, D.C.

1967 New Zealand-Australian Grammy, CMA, and ARIA Award-winning country music singer–songwriter (“Somebody Like You”; “The Fighter”), and television personality (American Idol; The Voice Australia), born in Whangarei, New Zealand

1967 Shelly Stokes, American softball catcher (Olympic gold 1996), born in Sacramento, California
1968 Chris Oldham, American NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers), born in Sacramento, California
1968 Nico-Jan Hoogma, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente), born in Heerenveen, Netherlands
1969 Mike Pritchard, American NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks), born in Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina

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Lord Chancellor Thomas More

1529 Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor of England

Bishop of Utrecht

1534 Charles V names George van Egmond (Joris van Egmont) as Bishop of Utrecht

1667 Arung Palakka’s Bugis forces occupy Makassar, southern Sulawesi

Penn Acquires Delaware

1682 William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York

1749 Georgia Colony reverses its decision and rules that slavery is legal
1774 First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1774 Minutemen organized in US colonies

Franklin Seeks French Support

1776 Benjamin Franklin departs for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution

1795 The Directoire, a five-man revolutionary government of France, is created
1822 King Willem I requires inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language

Jackson vs Adams

1824 First presidential election in American history where the popular vote is important with 18 states choosing presidential electors by popular vote. Andrew Jackson wins the most votes but is short of a majority, forcing a contingent election in the House of Representatives which John Quincy Adams wins.

1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opens
1830 Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp

Northwest Passage

1850 Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time, from Banks Island towards Melville Island

1858 Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine in Pittsburgh
1859 Steam clipper Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, Wales;, in a storm that took down over 100 vessels; approximately 450 passengers and crew killed on voyage returning to Liverpool from Australia

1861 The Pony Express (Missouri to California) ends after 19 months

1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer and splitting from rugby
1863 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields, leads to the formation of the Red Cross

Ambush of Bloody Bill

1864 Union troops ambush and kill Bill William T. Anderson known as “Bloody Bill” near Albany, Missouri

1868 White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
1869 1st American steeplechase horserace at Westchester, NY

Bruckner’s Symphony No. 2

1873 Anton Bruckner leads the Vienna Philharmonic in the premiere of his “Symphony No. 2”

1876 South Carolina Governor Chamberlain sends a company of federal troops to quell racial disturbances in Cainhoy

1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs between lawmen, including Wyatt Earp, and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed

Southern Horrors

1892 “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” first published by African American journalist Ida B. Wells in Memphis, Tennessee

Emperor Fires Chancellor and PM

1894 German Emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and Prime Minister of Prussia Botho zu Eulenburg

1896 Abyssinia & Italy sign peace treaty
1901 First recorded use of a “getaway car” occurs after a shop is held up in Paris
1903 Yerba Buena is first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay
1905 First Soviet (workers’ council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
1905 Sweden recognises Norway as an independent constitutional monarchy, effectively dissolving the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway

Assassination of Itō Hirobumi

1909 Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, and former Japanese Prime Minister is shot and killed by Korean nationalist An Jung-geun in Harbin, China

1912 Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)
1912 Woolwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames river in England opens

Sanger Arrested for Obscenity

1916 American sex educator Margaret Sanger is arrested for obscenity for advocating birth control

1917 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
1917 World War I: Brazil declares it is in a state of war with the Central Powers

1918 Cecil Chubb gives the prehistoric monument Stonehenge to the British nation

1918 Germany’s supreme commander General Eric Ludendorff resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating an armistice

1918 Soldiers revolt at Harskamp, Veluwe
1919 B C Hilliam’s musical “Buddies” premieres in NYC

Elgar’s Cello Concerto

1919 Edward Elgar‘s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, premieres at Queen’s Hall, London

Prohibition Enforcement Bill

1919 US President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden

1921 Solomon Porter Hood named US minister to Liberia

Baghdad Archaeological Museum

1922 Gertrude Bell appointed Honorary Director of Antiquities in new Department of Antiquities in Baghdad, Iraq (origin of the Baghdad Archaeological Museum)

Fascists Seize Power

1922 Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists led by Benito Mussolini

1923 Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
1923 Dutch second Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
1926 Arthur Goodrich’s play “Caponsacchi” premieres in NYC
1926 Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 “Belga”)

Creole Love Song

1927 American jazz vocalist Adelaide Hall makes her 1st recordings – “Creole Love Call” and “Blues I Love to Sing” – with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey

1930 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s ballet “Zolotoi vek” (The Golden Age) premieres in Leningrad
1931 Eugene O’Neill‘s play cycle “Mourning Becomes Electra” premieres in NYC
1933 French government of Albert Sarraut forms
1934 While Washington Senators player-manager Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson, owner Clark Griffith’s niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox
1939 Polish Jews forced into obligatory work service
1940 RMS Empress is disabled by a German bomb off Ireland’s west coast – sunk two days later allowing most passengers to survive
1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.

1942 Battle of Santa Cruz: Japanese naval offensive against US forces near Solomon Islands
1942 Fourth day of battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
1942 Second day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1943 World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 “Pfeil”.
1947 Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
1947 The British military occupation ends in Iraq

Minimum Wage Increases

1949 US President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents

Missionaries of Charity

1950 Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India

1950 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary
1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m & 15 miles

Marciano TKOs Louis

1951 Future world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano defeats former champion Joe Louis by TKO in the 8th round at Madison Square Garden

1953 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia
1954 Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine
1954 City of Trieste returned to Italy
1955 British troops occupy Saudi Arabian oil field at Boeraimi
1955 First edition of “Village Voice” (NYC) published

1956 UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution

1958 Pan Am flies the first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris
1958 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 MLB: American League approves existing Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins, and two new expansion franchises – Los Angeles Angels & Washington (D.C.) Senators; 1961 season schedule grows from 154 to 162 games
1961 First test flight of Saturn launch vehicle

Khrushchev’s Missile Deal

1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closes its bases in Turkey. Offer is rejected and JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.

1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon, Nevada
1964 Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1965 Queen Elizabeth decorates The Beatles with medals making them members Order of the British Empire (MBE) at Buckingham Palace
1965 Sylvia Likens is tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, Baniszewski’s children, and several neighborhood members (torture lasts three months)
1966 First Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
1966 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die

1968 Charlie Hickcox wins his 3rd gold medal of the Mexico City Olympics when he leads the US men’s 4 x 100m medley relay team with teammates Don McKenzie, Doug Russell & Ken Walsh to world record 3:54.9
1968 First European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy

Foreman Wins Olympic Gold

1968 Future world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman wins the Olympic heavyweight gold medal when the final against Jonas Čepulis (Soviet Union) is stopped in round 2 at the Mexico City Games

1968 Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins first of 3 consecutive men’s 10m platform gold medals when he comfortably beats Álvaro Gaxiola of Mexico at the Mexico City Olympics
1968 Japanese gymnast Akinori Nakayama wins 3 individual gold medals on the one day (horizontal bar, rings & parallel bars) at the Mexico City Olympics; with team victory, 4 gold for the Games
1968 Japanese gymnasts sweep the medals in the men’s floor exercise competition at the Mexico City Olympics; Sawao Kato wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of teammates Akinori Nakayama and Takeshi Katō
1968 KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1968 Soviet Union launches spacecraft Soyuz 3
1968 Striker Antal Dunai scores twice as Hungary outclasses Bulgaria 4-1 to take the men’s football gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
1968 The Soviet Union wraps up the volleyball double at the Mexico City Olympics; both men’s & women’s teams take gold at the end of their respective round-robin competitions
1969 WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1970 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
1970 The “Doonesbury” comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1971 An Assembly, attended only by Nationalist politicians, and acting as an alternative to Stormont, meet in Dungiven Castle
1971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China

First Instant Camera

1972 Edwin Land introduces the first truly instant camera the Polaroid SX-70 camera at an event in Miami, Florida

1972 Guided tours of the former prison at Alcatraz by the National Park Service begin

1972 Ringo Starr and singer Lulu appear in non-speaking cameos on “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” program
1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army

Nixon Releases Watergate Tapes

1973 President Nixon releases first White House tapes on Watergate scandal

1973 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1973 Wings release single “Helen Wheels”
1973 Yom Kippur War ends with Israel 65 miles from Cairo and 26 miles from Damascus
1974 Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA’s Cavaliers & MISL’s Crunch

1st Egyptian President to Visit the US

1975 Anwar Sadat becomes the 1st Egyptian president to officially visit the United States

1975 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1975 Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball
1976 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
1976 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
1977 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 Dr Clifford R. Wharton Jr. named chancellor of State University of New York
1977 Last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca District, Somalia, and is considered the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named joint winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1979 Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
1980 St Louis Cardinals sack Baltimore Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times

1982 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 1st pitcher to win four Cy Young awards

US Budget Deficit Reaches Record

1982 US budget deficit reaches then record $110.7 billion for fiscal year 1982, the first full year of the Ronald Reagan‘s presidency

1983 Hugh Whitemore’s “Pack of Lies” premieres in London
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

1984 Stephanie Fae Beauclair (“Baby Fae”) receives a baboon heart transplant and lives for 21 days
1985 CBS’ premiere of fact based TV film “Children of the Night”, based on sociology student Lois Lee’s
expose on female crime and inconsistent enforcement of prostitution laws in Los Angeles
1985 Doug Harvey‘s #2 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens
1985 Hurricane Juan kills 97 in US

1986 French McLaren driver Alain Prost retains his Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 2 points from Nigel Mansell

1987 Dow Jones Industrial Average down 156.83 points
1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
1988 The US and Soviet Union collaborate in “Operation Breakthrough” to free two young gray whales trapped in the Arctic ice near Point Barrow, Alaska
1992 London Ambulance Service thrown into chaos after implementation problems with a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
1992 The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
1993 NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
1993 NJ Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993
1994 Jordan & Israel sign peace accord
1995 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
1997 Jacques Villeneuve finishes 3rd in European Grand Prix at Jerez, Spain; first Canadian to win F1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 39 points from Michael Schumacher
1999 Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
2000 Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d’Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï
2001 The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2002 Moscow Theatre Siege ends: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before
2003 The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in Californian history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego
2011 Argentine intelligence officer Alfredo Astiz, known as “The Blonde Angel of Death” and others are jailed for life for crimes against humanity, including the deaths of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo [1]
2012 41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana, Afghanistan
2012 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
2012 China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao
2012 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million in damage
2014 American tennis star Serena Williams beats Simona Halep of Romania 6–3, 6–0 to successfully defend her WTA Finals title in Kallang, Singapore

2015 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Pakistan and Afghanistan killing over 300
2015 Rashid Khan makes his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe
2015 World Health Organization classifies processed meat as carcinogenic
2016 Jesus’ supposed tomb is opened for the first time in 500 years by archaeologists for restoration at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem [1]

Royal Cremation Ceremony

2017 Cremation ceremony for King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand held in Bangkok, a year after his death

2017 Explosion and fire at a fireworks factory in Tangerang, Indonesia kills 47 and injuries dozens

Jacinda Sworn-in as PM

2017 Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, becoming the then world’s youngest female head of government

2017 National Party of New Zealand found guilty of breaching the copyright of rapper Eminem‘s publisher and ordered to pay $413,000 for use of the song “Eminem Esque”
2017 Oldest known tsunami victim revealed by sediment discovered in 6,000-year-old skull by scientists near Aitape, Papua New Guinea

Opioid Crisis

2017 US President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency

2018 Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor announces she has converted to Islam
2018 Rhine River in drought with lowest levels since 1920s forces German government to release oil reserves after barge shipments disrupted
2018 Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc arrested for sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent US Democrats

Carbon Neutral Goal

2020 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says the country will becomes carbon neutral by 2050

2020 Melbourne officials announce end to their three-month lockdown as city records no new cases of COVID-19 for 1st time since June
2020 NASA announces there is more water on the Moon than previously thought in sunlit as well as shadowed regions [1]
2020 Pakistan’s first metro line, the Orange Line, opens in Lahore
2020 Police officers in Philadelphia shoot and kill black man Walter Wallace Jr. armed with a knife, prompting protests and the city to impose a curfew
2020 Silverado wildfire breaks out in Orange County, California forcing 60,000 people to evacuate
2020 US Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court sealing a conservative 6-3 majority
2021 UN report says current climate pledges put world on course for “catastrophic” average 2.7-degree Celsius temperature rise this century ahead of Glasgow climate summit [1]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

2022 “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” has its world premiere in Hollywood starring Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira

2022 European Union’s tallest building, the Varso Tower, a skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland, at 310 metres high, is completed [1]
2022 Thousands of protesters in Saqez, Iran defy security forces to mark 40-day Arba’een (period of mourning) for Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old who died in police custody for not wearing a hijab properly [1]
2024 Israel carries out a series of airstrikes on Iranian military targets in and around Tehran [1]

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs between lawmen, including Wyatt Earp, and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed

October 26, 1881

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First recorded use of a “getaway car” occurs after a shop is held up in Paris

October 26, 1901

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Hubble Captures a Dazzling Spiral Galaxy Alive With Birth and Destruction

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October 26, 2025

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NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous supermassive black hole at its core. The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest Picture of the Week features NGC 7496, a galaxy more than 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus (The Crane). This dusty spiral galaxy […]

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