It happened on this day, October 26
Events:
1905 – Norwegian independence from Sweden.
(1945–The emergence of the United Nations after the ratification of its constitution by the five permanent members of the Security Council
1954 – President Gamal Abdel Nasser was the victim of an assassination attempt while giving a speech in Mansheya Square in Alexandria, an incident known as the Mansheya Incident.
1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself emperor of Iran.
1973 – Zambia and The Gambia break diplomatic relations with Israel.
1979 – South Korean intelligence chief Kim Chi-kyu shoots and kills President Pak Chung-hee.
1994 – Signing of the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty known as the “Wadi Araba Agreement”.
1995 – Dr Fathi Al-Shaqaqi is assassinated in Malta while returning from Libya by the Israeli Mossad.
2002 – The 800 Russian hostage crisis in a Moscow theater by Chechen rebels ends after Russian special forces storm the theater using narcotic gas, resulting in the deaths of 50 Chechens and 150 civilians.
2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, destroys 2,200 homes, and burns 250,000 acres (1,000 km2).
2009 – Announcement of the victory of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the presidential elections for a fifth presidential term after obtaining 89.62% of the votes.
2014 – The first Tunisian legislative elections took place after the new constitution and the second after the revolution to elect the Assembly of People's Representatives.
2015 – A strong earthquake centered in eastern Afghanistan and affecting Pakistan and India, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale.
2017 – The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons releases its final report regarding the chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun on April 4, 2017, and officially holds the Syrian regime responsible.
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Births:
1911 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer.
1916 – François Mitterrand, president of France.
1919 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
1942 – Muhammad Khan, Egyptian director.
1947 – Hillary Clinton, American Secretary of State, former first lady of the United States and wife of the forty-second American president Bill Clinton.
1952 – Abbas al-Musawi, Shiite cleric and second secretary general of Lebanese Hezbollah.
1959 – Evo Morales, president of Bolivia.
1963 – Wael Al-Ibrashi, Egyptian journalist.
1964 – Hani Ramzy, Egyptian actor.
1977 – Lujain Omran, Saudi journalist.
** Shaima Sabt, Bahraini actress.
1981 – Saqr Khudair, Kuwaiti footballer.
1983 – Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer.
1984 – Adriano Correa, Brazilian footballer.
1985 – Asin, Indian actress.
1987 – Zizi Adel, Egyptian singer.
1988 – Amina Khalil, Egyptian actress.
1991 – Samar Al-Zaki, Bahraini actress.
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Death:
1890 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer.
1909 – Itō Hirobumi, Prime Minister of Japan.
1916 – Jawad Al-Hilli, Iraqi poet.
1958 – Jamil Al-Madfai, Iraqi soldier and politician.
1989 – Charles Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987.
1995 – Fathi Al-Shaqaqi, founder of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine.
2007 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1959
2015 – Leo Cadanov, American physicist and academic.
2017 – Ali Ashraf Darvishian, Iranian novelist and short story writer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ National holiday in Austria.
