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| October 26th |
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| About October 26th is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. Births 1854 - C. W. Post, pioneer of the breakfast industry 1911 - Sid Gillman, Hall of Fame football coach 1947 - Pat Sajak, television host 1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, former U.S. Senator, 1st Lady Deaths 1983 - Mike Michalske, Hall of Fame football offensive guard 2007 - Arthur Kornberg, famed biochemist, Nobel Prize winner Events 1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon, but dies only 21 days later due to an infection. 2001 - United States President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Act into law. |
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