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UPI Almanac for Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014

Peace treaties signed, assassinations, hostage crisis ends with dozens dead ... on this date in history.

By United Press International
Hillary Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative Sept. 23, 2014, in New York City. UPI/Spencer Platt/Pool
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Today is Sunday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of 2014 with 66 to follow.

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Jupiter and Mercury. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Saturn Uranus and Venus.


Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include cereal foods entrepreneur C. W. Post in 1854; baseball Hall of Fame member Judy Johnson in 1900; boxing champion Primo Carnera in 1906; singer Mahalia Jackson and football Hall of Fame member Sid Gillman, both in 1911; bandleader Charlie Barnet in 1913; actor Jackie Coogan in 1914; French President Francois Mitterrand and U.S. aviator Boyd Wagner, both in 1916; Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, in 1919; actor Bob Hoskins in 1942; author Pat Conroy in 1945 (age 69); TV personality Pat Sajak in 1946 (age 68); former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1947 (age 67); and actors Jaclyn Smith in 1947 (age 67), Dylan McDermott in 1961 (age 53), Cary Elwes in 1962 (age 52) and Tom Cavanagh in 1963 (age 51); rock musician Keith Strickland in 1953 (age 61); Bolivian President Evo Morales in 1959 (age 55); singers Natalie Merchant in 1963 (age 51) and Keith Urban in 1967 (age 47); and actors Seth McFarlane in 1973 (age 41) and Jon Heder in 1977 (age 37).
On this date in history:
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In 1881, the storied gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurred in Tombstone, Ariz.

In 1920, the lord mayor of Cork, Ireland, Terence McSwiney, demanding independence for Ireland, died after a 2 1/2-month hunger strike in a British prison cell.

In 1944, after four days of furious fighting, the World War II battle of Leyte Gulf, largest air-naval clash in history, ended with a decisive U.S. victory over the Japanese.

In 1979, South Korean President Park Chung-hee was assassinated by the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.

In 1990, District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $5,000 for his conviction on misdemeanor drug charges. (Barry became mayor again in 1995.)

In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty at a desert site along the Israeli-Jordanian border.

In 1995, Islamic Jihad leader Fathi ash-Shiqaqi was assassinated in Malta.

In 1998, the presidents of Ecuador and Peru signed a peace treaty, ending a decades-long border dispute.

In 2002, a four-day Moscow hostage crisis came to a bloody end after Russian soldiers stormed a theater where Chechen rebels had held 700 people for ransom. Ninety hostages and 50 rebels were killed.

In 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill authorizing construction of nearly 700 miles of fencing on the U.S. border with Mexico to better control illegal immigration.

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In 2009, two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan killed 14 Americans -- 11 soldiers and three civilians.

In 2010, GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug manufacturer, agreed to settle criminal and civil complaints for $750 million, stemming from accusations of knowingly selling drugs with questionable safety standards.

In 2012, U.S. Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Nev., was injured in a six-car pileup on Interstate 15 in Las Vegas. A statement from Reid's office said, "Senator Reid was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the accident. He experienced rib and hip contusions and has been cleared for release by the doctors." In 2013 police in Phoenix said Michael Guzzo, 56, angered by barking dogs in his townhouse complex, shot and killed four members of a family and two of their dogs, fired shots at the home of another family, then killed himself.


A thought for the day: "Running is the greatest metaphor for life because you get out of it what you put into it." -- Oprah Winfrey

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