Sunday, October 26, 2025

History for October 26

History for October 26 - On-This-Day.com
Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995)
  • 1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
  • 1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. 
  • 1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.
  • 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.
  • 1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.

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