Today in History
26 October
237 births · 120 deaths · 49 events recorded
Notable Births
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Lee Eun-sang (singer)
b. 2002
South Korean singer (born 2002)
Yuta (Japanese singer)
b. 1995
Japanese singer (born 1995)
Waqa Blake
b. 1994
Fiji international rugby league footballer
Allie DeBerry
b. 1994
American actress and model
Sergey Karasev
b. 1993
Russian basketball player (born 1993)
Joseph Cramarossa
b. 1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Mark Swanepoel
b. 1990
Rugby player
Dre Kirkpatrick
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Notable Deaths
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Björn Andrésen
d. 2025
Swedish actor and musician (1955–2025)
Roh Tae-woo
d. 2021
President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993
Willis Carto
d. 2015
American political activist (1926–2015)
Leo Kadanoff
d. 2015
American physicist (1937–2015)
Giuseppe Nazzaro
d. 2015
Igor Sikorsky
d. 1972
Russian-American aviation pioneer (1889–1972)
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour
d. 1896
French statesman
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford
d. 1803
British politician (1721–1803)
On This Day in History
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2015
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake
2012
Microsoft made a public release of Windows 8 and made it available on new PCs.
Microsoft
2004
Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PlayStation 2 in North America, which sold 12 million units for the PS2, becoming the console's best-selling video game.
Rockstar Games
2003
The Cedar Fire, the third-largest wildfire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
Cedar Fire
2002
Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
Moscow theater hostage crisis
2001
The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
Patriot Act
2000
A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
Robert Guéï
1999
The United Kingdom's House of Lords votes to end the right of most hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
United Kingdom