Saturday, October 26, 2024

History for October 26

History for October 26 - On-This-Day.com 
Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton
  • 1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
  • 1972 - U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.
  • 1979 - South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
  • 1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession.
  • 1994 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.
  • 1996 - Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing.

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