Today is Tuesday, October 26, the 299th day of 2010. 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, Az.
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)
1949 ― President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents
1955 ― Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
1956 ― U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1971 ― U.N. votes to replace Taiwan with China