Updated October 25, 2012, 2:28 pm
On Oct. 26, 1994, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty in a ceremony attended by President Clinton.
On Oct. 26, 1911, Mahalia Jackson, the American known as the queen of gospel singing, was born. Following her death on Jan. 27, 1972, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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1774 The First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia. 1825 The Erie Canal opened, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River in upstate New York. 1881 Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and “Doc” Holliday confronted Ike Clanton’s gang in a gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz. Three members of Clanton’s gang were killed; Earp’s brothers were wounded. 1962 In one of the most dramatic verbal confrontations of the Cold War, American U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson asked his Soviet counterpart during a Security Council debate whether the USSR had placed missiles in Cuba. 1972 National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared “peace is at hand” in Vietnam. 1984 A newborn with a severe heart defect was given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, Calif. She lived for 21 more days. 1994 Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty. 2002 A hostage siege by Chechen rebels at a Moscow theater ended with 129 of the 800-plus captives dead, most from a knockout gas used by Russian special forces who stormed the theater. 2005 The Chicago White Sox won their first World Series since 1917 by defeating the Houston Astros 1-0 in Game 4. Current Birthdays
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton turns 65 years old today.
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Country singer Keith Urban turns 45 years old today.
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1942 Bob Hoskins, Actor, turns 70 1945 Jaclyn Smith, Actress (“Charlie’s Angels”), turns 67 1946 Pat Sajak, TV game show host (“Wheel of Fortune”), turns 66 1951 Bootsy Collins, Musician, turns 61 1956 Rita Wilson, Actress, turns 56 1961 Dylan McDermott, Actor (“The Practice”), turns 51 1963 Natalie Merchant, Rock singer (10,000 Maniacs), turns 49 1968 Tom Cavanagh, Actor (“Ed”), turns 44 1971 Rosemarie DeWitt, Actress (“The United States of Tara”), turns 41 1971 Anthony Rapp, Actor (“Rent”), turns 41 1973 Seth MacFarlane, Writer, producer (“Family Guy”), turns 39 1977 Jon Heder, Actor (“Napoleon Dynamite”), turns 35 1984 Sasha Cohen, Figure skater, turns 28
Historic Birthdays
Mahalia Jackson
10/26/1911 – 1/27/1972 American gospel singer.Go to obituary »
71 Domenico Scarlatti 10/26/1685 – 7/23/1757
Italian composer34 Georges Jacques Danton 10/26/1759 – 4/5/1794
French Revolutionary leader? Henry Deringer 10/26/1786 – 2/28/1868
American gunsmith59 Charles William Post 10/26/1854 – 5/9/1914
U.S. manufacturer of breakfast cereals81 Richard Dudley Sears 10/26/1861 – 4/8/1943
American tennis champion86 John S. Knight 10/26/1894 – 6/16/1981
American journalist and publisher83 Beryl Markham 10/26/1902 – 8/3/1986
British aviator, horse trainer and breeder, and writer91 Jack Sharkey 10/26/1902 – 8/17/1994
Hall-of-fame heavyweight boxer60 Primo Carnera 10/26/1906 – 6/29/1967
Italian-born U.S. heavyweight boxer77 Charlie Barnet 10/26/1913 – 9/4/1991
American musician69 Jackie Coogan 10/26/1914 – 3/1/1984
American silent film actor; played “The Kid”79 Francois Mitterand 10/26/1916 – 1/8/1996
French president (1981-95)60 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 10/26/1919 – 7/27/1980
Iranian Shah (1941-79)
