Today In History

Today in History: Wednesday, October  26, 2016
AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.

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On this date in:
1774 The First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia.
1825 The Erie Canal opened, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River in upstate New York.
1881 Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and “Doc” Holliday confronted Ike Clanton’s gang in a gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz. Three members of Clanton’s gang were killed; Earp’s brothers were wounded.

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1962 In one of the most dramatic verbal confrontations of the Cold War, American U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson asked his Soviet counterpart during a Security Council debate whether the USSR had placed missiles in Cuba.

1972 National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared “peace is at hand” in Vietnam.

1984 A newborn with a severe heart defect was given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, Calif. She lived for 21 more days.
1994 Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty.
2002 A hostage siege by Chechen rebels at a Moscow theater ended with 129 of the 800-plus captives dead, most from a knockout gas used by Russian special forces who stormed the theater.
2005 The Chicago White Sox won their first World Series since 1917 by defeating the Houston Astros 1-0 in Game 4.
Today’s Birthdays:
Former secretary of state and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton turns 69 years old today.

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Name Profession Age
Jaclyn Smith Actress (“Charlie’s Angels”) 71
Pat Sajak TV game show host (“Wheel of Fortune”) 70
Bootsy Collins Musician 65
Rita Wilson Actress 60
Dylan McDermott Actor (“The Practice”) 55
Natalie Merchant Rock singer (10,000 Maniacs) 53
Tom Cavanagh Actor (“Ed”) 48
Rosemarie DeWitt Actress (“The United States of Tara”) 45
Anthony Rapp Actor (“Rent”) 45
Seth MacFarlane Writer, producer (“Family Guy”) 43
Jon Heder Actor (“Napoleon Dynamite”) 39
Sasha Cohen Figure skater 32
Country singer Keith Urban turns 49 years old today.

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