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Thursday October 26, 2023

October 26: Day of the Week

October 26, 2023 is the 299th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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October 26 Historical Event(s)

  • 1775
    King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
  • 1860
    Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
  • 1909
    Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
  • 1955
    Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
  • 1964
    Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
  • 1984
    “Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
  • 1985
    The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
  • 1999
    Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
  • 2002
    Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
  • 2003
    The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acre, and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.

Who were born on October 26?

  • 1854
    C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
  • 1899
    Judy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1989)
  • 1916
    Boyd Wagner, First USAAF fighter ace of World War II (d. 1942)
  • 1916
    François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
  • 1925
    Jan Wolkers, Dutch author (d. 2007)
  • 1948
    Toby Harrah, American baseball player
  • 1953
    Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52's)
  • 1957
    Julie Dawn Cole, British actress
  • 1966
    Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
  • 1974
    Raveena Tandon, Indian actress

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