| Today in History: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 |
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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.
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| 1972 |
National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared “peace is at hand” in Vietnam.
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| 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. |
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| Today’s Birthdays: |
| Former secretary of state and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton turns 69 years old today. |
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| AP Photo/Evan Vucci |
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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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| AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill |
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