FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012

Today is Friday, October 26, the 300th day of 2012. There are 66 days left in the year.

1863 ― Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva

1863 ― Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer

1881 ― Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Ariz.

1905 ― First Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia

1905 ― Union of Sweden and Norway ends

1916 ― Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)

1955 ― Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president

1956 ― U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved

1982 ― Steve Carlton became first pitcher to win four Cy Young awards

1988 ― Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for four-month advisory service