10-26-2004, 03:38 AM
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October 26th
1685 ~ Birthday of Domenico Scarlatti, Composer.
1759 ~ Birthday of Georges Jacques Danton, leader of the French Revolution.
1881 ~ The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place at Tombstone, Arizona.
1905 ~ Norway became independent from Sweden.
1918 ~ Erich von Ludendorff is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
1947 ~ The Maharaja of Kashmir agreed to allow his kingdom to join India.
1972 ~ Death of Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer.
1994 ~ Announcement of Andrew Wiles correct proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
1999 ~ Britain's House of Lords voted to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
2001 ~ The United States passed the controversial USA Patriot Act into law.
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