October 26<\/p>\n
1774 \u2013 The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
1825 \u2013 The Erie Canal opens, allowing direct passage from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 Confederate William ‘Bloody Bill’ Anderson is killed in battle against Federal troops in Albany, Missouri.<\/p>\n
1881 \u2013 The Earp brothers and Doc Holliday engage the Clanton and McLaury brothers, along with Billy Claiborne, in a gunfight in an alley about 6 doors west of the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, killing the McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton.<\/p>\n
1912 \u2013 During the First Balkan War, Ottoman troops are forced to abandon the cities of Thessaloniki in Greece and Skopje in Northern Macedonia, to reinforce the \u00c7atalca Line, their final defensive line protecting the peninsula and Constantinople<\/p>\n
1917 \u2013 During World War I,\u00a0 Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.<\/p>\n
1918 \u2013 During World War I, Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.<\/p>\n
1936 \u2013 The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, the U.S. carrier\u00a0Hornet<\/em> and destroyer Porter<\/em> are sunk, the carrier Enterprise, <\/em>battleship South Dakota<\/em> and cruisers Portland <\/em>and San Juan<\/em> damaged, while 2 Japanese carriers Sh\u014dkaku<\/em> and Zuih\u014d <\/em>and cruiser Chikuma<\/em> are damaged.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 Off Cape Enga\u00f1o north of Luzon Island Philippines, the final battle between Japanese and U.S. naval fleets results in an overwhelming American victory.<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 On his 48th birthday, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops the disease in Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, not that that stops the U.S. Army from going bonkers from time to time and mandating all troops get inoculated.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Jordan and Israel sign the Wadi Araba Treaty ending the state of war between the 2 nations.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Israeli Mossad agents kill Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in Malta.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 The United States passes the USA PATRIOT<\/em> Act<\/em> into law.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 The Cedar Fire forest fire, started by a hunter as a rescue signal,\u00a0 kills 15 people, burns 250,000 acres of land and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 Microsoft releases Windows 8<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 26 1774 \u2013 The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia. 1825 \u2013 The Erie Canal opens, allowing direct passage from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. 1864 \u2013 Confederate William ‘Bloody Bill’ Anderson is killed in battle against Federal troops in Albany, Missouri. 1881 \u2013 The Earp brothers and Doc Holliday engage the Clanton … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61078"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97156,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61078\/revisions\/97156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}