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Notable anniversaries in history for today: October 26
- 250th: 1774 - First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
- 80th: 1944 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends, as the Japanese fleet withdraws from the victorious American fleet. The Japanese lost 34 ships, including four carriers, three battleships, and forty cruisers.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Lauren Tewes in Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (The Love Boat, Eyes of a Stranger).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of D.W. Moffett; actor (Skin, For Your Love, Chicago Sons).
- 50th: 1974 - Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and MISL's Crunch.
- 40th: 1984 - "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Sue Randall at age 49; actress (Miss Landers - Leave it to Beaver).
- 40th: 1984 - Orion Pictures releases the film The Terminator to theaters.
- 30th: 1994 - Walt Disney Home Video releases the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on videotape in the USA.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Wilbert Harrison at age 65 of a stroke in a nursing home in Spencer, North Carolina, USA; singer ("Kansas City" (1959), "Let's Work Together" (1969)).
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Hoyt Axton at age 61 after a heart attack; singer/songwriter ("Greenback Dollar", "Never Been to Spain", "Joy To The World"), actor (Bonanza TV show, I Dream of Jeannie, McCloud, Diff'rent Strokes, Murder She Wrote, WKRP).
- 20th: 2004 - The Cassini probe passes within 1,200km of Titan.
- 20th: 2004 - Rockstar Games releases the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas video game for the PlayStation 2 in the USA and the United Kingdom. Worldwide sales in the first week are about 4.5 million copies.
- 5th: 2019 - Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi AKA Ibrahim Awad by suicide bomb at age 48; leader of Islamic State.
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