October 26th

The October 26th is the 299e Jour of the Année (300e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 66 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 1184 : With the Japan, with the Battle of Kojima, Minamoto No Noriyori tackles with its riders a force Taira which flees in boat towards Shikoku.

  • 1524 : The French take again Milan with the Spanish
  • 1587: 8th war of religion: Battle of Vimory, at the time of the eighth war of religion, during which Henri of Lorraine, known as the Gash , with the head of the catholic troops, overcame the Protestant .
  • 1671 : Hardly installed with the Royal Observatory, still in full building site, Cassini discovers already Japet, the second satellite of Saturn. The glare of Japet is 100 times weaker than that of Titan.
  • 1795 : In France, the Convention separates, the Directoire succeeds to him.
  • 1850 : The Taiping are raised in China and their chief Hung Siu-Tsen proclaims emperor.
  • 1896 : The treaty of Addis-Abeba removes Italian protectorate on the Abyssinie.

XXe century

  • 1902 : Victoire of the Swiss radical-democrat in

  • 1905: The Sweden recognizes the Indépendance Norway
  • 1907: Farman flies on 771 meters in 52 seconds.
  • 1911 : Proclamation of the Chinese Republic.
  • 1917 :
    • Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov, known as Lénine is elected with the head of the Central committee of the Communist party of the Soviet Union.
    • the Brésil declares the war with the Germany.
    • Publication of the first Cartoon putting in the high-speed motorboat Felix the Cat.
  • 1942 : The American Aircraft carrier " Hornet " is cast during the battle of the the Solomon Islands, in the Pacifique.
  • 1954 : The town of Trieste is again Italian.
  • 1955 : The Republic of the South Vietnam is proclaimed, under the authority of Ngo Dinh Diem.
  • 1956 :
  • 1957 : The marshal Joukov is raised of his functions of Soviet Minister for defense.
  • 1962 : Nikita Khrouchtchev proposes to withdraw the Soviet rockets of Cuba, if the the United States give up their bases in Turkey - what Washington refuses.
  • 1965 : The Queen of England gives the Order of the British Empire to the 4 Beatles
  • 1966:
  • 1972: Mathieu Kérékou seizes the power with the Bénin by a coup d'etat.
  • 1973 : first flight of the Military aircraft Alpha Jet
  • 1978: The Variole completely disappeared from planet according to the the World Health Organization.
  • 1979 : The South Korean president Park Chung-Hee is assassinated with the seat of the central Agency of information, with Seoul.
  • 1986 : The International Conference of the Croix-Rouge decides expulsion of the South Africa.
  • 1987 :
    • the Chinese communist authorities announce that the peasants will be soon able to acquire and to yield the rights on the grounds which they cultivate.
    • Second black Monday for the Stock Exchange
  • 1994: Signature of a peace treaty, in the presence of Bill Clinton, which puts an end to 46 years of war between Israel and the Jordan.
  • 1996 : The cyclist Frenchwoman Jeannie Longo improves the world records of the hour by traversing 48,159 km in 60 minutes on the cycle-racing track of Mexico City.
  • 1997 : Jacques Villeneuve becomes the first Québécois world champion of F1 at the wheel of a Williams.
  • 1999 : The parquet floor of Paris opens two legal informations on the management of the Mutuelle main road of the students of France (MNEF).
  • 2000 : Opening to London, the National Portrait Gallery of the international exhibition Painting The Century 101 Masterpieces Portrait 1900-2000 (French To paint the Century 101 major Portraits 1900-2000 ) presenting in ten decades a wide panorama of some of the big steps on the cultural and historical level of the 20th century. (End the February 4th 2001).

XXIe century

  • 2002 : The Ministers of West Africa decide to send in Ivory Coast a regional force of 2.000 men to replace the French soldiers and to control the suspension of the hostilities concluded between the governmental forces and the rebels of the Ivory Coast.

  • 2003 :
    • the Ville of Paris inaugurates, with the memory of François Mitterrand, a Parisian quay which bears from now on its name.
    • has Baghdad, an American colonel finds death in the attack with the rocket of the Al-Rachid hotel where remains most of the military personnel and American civilian and where was the number two of the Pentagone Paul Wolfowitz.
    • the bubble-gum festival its 75 years with New York.
  • 2004 : Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon succeeds in imposing his retirement scheme of the Gaza Strip with the vote of the Israeli deputies who approve the " disengagement unilatéral" Gaza Strip, causing a deep tear within its own party and the anger of the Jewish settlers.
  • 2005 :
    • the magistrates' court of Paris condemns to four one-year suspended sentences the former ministers RPR Michel Roussin and Michel Giraud, principal defendants of the business known as of the government contracts of Île-de-France.
    • At the time of an entitled conference " The world without the sionisme" , the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with declared that the State of Israel must be " striped carte" , starting an international wave of protest.
  • 2006 : Left Edgy Eft which is version 6.10 of the distribution Ubuntu based on the operating system GNU/Linux.
  • 2007 :
    • Left French Harry Potter and Relics of Dead the, last volume of the adventures of the most famous wizard of the literature.
    • Left Mac OS X Leopard.
  • 2028 Passage of the Comet 1997

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Holy Démétrius or Holy Dimitrios (+ towards 306), hermit, martyr with Thessalonique.

See too

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