{"id":29351,"date":"2016-10-26T08:31:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=29351"},"modified":"2016-10-26T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:32:13","slug":"today-in-history-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=29351","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today in History: Wednesday, October\u00a0 26, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn 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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1774<\/td>\nThe First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1825<\/td>\nThe Erie Canal opened, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River in upstate New York.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1881<\/td>\nWyatt 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1962<\/td>\nIn 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.<\/p>\n

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1972<\/td>\nNational security adviser Henry Kissinger declared “peace is at hand” in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1984<\/td>\nA 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nIsrael and Jordan signed a peace treaty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nA 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nThe Chicago White Sox won their first World Series since 1917 by defeating the Houston Astros 1-0 in Game 4.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Former secretary of state and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton turns 69 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jaclyn Smith<\/td>\nActress (“Charlie’s Angels”)<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pat Sajak<\/td>\nTV game show host (“Wheel of Fortune”)<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bootsy Collins<\/td>\nMusician<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rita Wilson<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dylan McDermott<\/td>\nActor (“The Practice”)<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Natalie Merchant<\/td>\nRock singer (10,000 Maniacs)<\/td>\n53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tom Cavanagh<\/td>\nActor (“Ed”)<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rosemarie DeWitt<\/td>\nActress (“The United States of Tara”)<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anthony Rapp<\/td>\nActor (“Rent”)<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seth MacFarlane<\/td>\nWriter, producer (“Family Guy”)<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jon Heder<\/td>\nActor (“Napoleon Dynamite”)<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sasha Cohen<\/td>\nFigure skater<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Country singer Keith Urban turns 49 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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