On this day: October 26

POSTED: 3:17 PM Oct 25 2012 UPDATED: 2:00 AM Oct 26 2012

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The Erie Canal opens, the Pony Express closes, Wyatt Earp shoots it out in Tombstone, "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart, and the Patriot Act is signed into law, all on this day.

OTD October 26 - Continental Congress — 1 / 40

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1774: The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, but agrees to reconvene in May 1775 if the British Parliament does not address their grievances over mounting taxation without representation and the British blockade of Boston Harbor following the Boston Tea Party.

OTD October 26 - Continental Congress

OTD October 26 - King George III

OTD October 26 - Erie Canal

OTD October 26 - CW Post

OTD October 26 - Pony Express

OTD October 26 - Wyatt Earp

OTD October 26 - Mahalia Jackson

OTD October 26 - Charles Comiskey

OTD October 26 - Mustang P-51

OTD October 26 - Bob Hoskins

OTD October 26 - Leyte Gulf

OTD October 26 - Pat Sajak

OTD October 26 - Hillary Clinton

OTD October 26 - Jaclyn Smith

OTD October 26 - Winston Churchill

OTD October 26 - Hattie McDaniel

OTD October 26 - Rita Wilson

OTD October 26 - Boeing 707

OTD October 26 - baseball expansion

OTD October 26 - Dylan McDermott

OTD October 26 - Cary Elwes

OTD October 26 - Natalie Merchant

OTD October 26 - Keith Urban

OTD October 26 - Doonesbury

OTD October 26 - Henry Kissinger

OTD October 26 - Seth MacFarlane

OTD October 26 - Jon Heder

OTD October 26 - Park Chung-hee

OTD October 26 - Under Pressure

OTD October 26 - Steve Carlton

OTD October 26 - Baby Fae

OTD October 26 - The Terminator

OTD October 26 - Sasha Cohen

OTD October 26 - Wayne Gretzky

OTD October 26 - Pearl Jam

OTD October 26 - Alec Baldwin

OTD October 26 - Richard Jewell

OTD October 26 - Patriot Act

OTD October 26 - Moscow theater

OTD October 26 - Paul the Octopus

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