On This Day October 26th

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October 26th is the 299th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 66 days remain until the end of the year.


Events

1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

1597 – Imjin War: Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin routed the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.

1825 – The Erie Canal opens, allowing direct passage from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.

1863 – The Football Association was founded.

1881 – Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday participate in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into entire operation.

1956 – Hungarian Revolution: In the towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Esztergom, Hungarian secret police forces massacre civilians. As rebel strongholds in Budapest hold, fighting spreads throughout the country.

1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.

1977 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of eradicating smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.

1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.

1999 – The United Kingdom's House of Lords votes to end the right of most hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.

 

Birthdays

1483 – Hans Buchner, German Renaissance composer (d. 1538)

1757 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher and academic (d. 1823)

1874 – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, an American philanthropist, founded the Museum of Modern Art (d. 1948)

1902 – Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer and academic (d. 1980)

1911 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)

1920 – Sarah Lee Lippincott, American astronomer and academic (d. 2019)

1946 – Pat Sajak, American journalist, actor, and game show host[18]

1951 – Bootsy Collins, American singer-songwriter and bass player

1977 – Jon Heder, American actor and producer.

 

Holiday Spotlight

Let’s Celebrate Our Friend The Mule

The mule happens to be the most common and earliest artificial hybrid animal. Instead of being an originally wild animal that humans domesticated, the mule was invented by humans. It is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. Donkeys and horses, it is important to note, are two entirely different species with different numbers of chromosomes.

Its invention likely took place in the ancient ages in modern-day Turkey. Mules were pretty standard in surrounding regions. They were frequently used in Egypt by 3000 B.C. to carry cargo. Egyptian familiar people also rode on mules as a form of transport. The mule probably arrived in Asia Minor in 800 B.C. In ancient Rome, mules were used for transporting both humans and cargo. Their strength and endurance were well-known by everyone — so much so that when General Marius trained his soldiers to carry enormous loads of ammunition, they were called ‘Marius’ Mules.’

Christopher Columbus brought mules to the Americas when he set out to discover an alternate route to India and landed up in the Americas to colonize them. Interestingly, George Washington — the first American president — was called the father of the American mule because he produced over 50 mules at home. Washington considered the mules vital because they were docile and easy to maintain.

 

 Others Include

Austrian National Day

Chicken Fried Steak Day

Horseless Carriage Day

Howl at the Moon Night

Mince Meat Pie Day

National Financial Crime Fighter Day

National Day of the Deployed

National Tennessee Day

National Mule Day

Pumpkin Day

Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night

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