Today in History....October 26

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1774, the First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia

1825, the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River
1881, the "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang. Three members of Clanton's gang were killed; Earp's brothers were wounded

1967, the Shah of Iran crowned himself and his queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne

1972, national security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam

1975, Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to pay an official visit to the United States

1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty during an extravagant ceremony at the Israeli-Jordanian border attended by President Clinton

1996, federal prosecutors cleared former security guard Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing

2001,


President Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists

The U.S. Supreme Court building was shut down for anthrax testing

The Taliban captured and executed Afghan opposition figure Abdul Haq
2005,


Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Israel was a "disgraceful blot" that should be "wiped off the map"

A 20-year-old "Palestinian", a practitioner of that "religion of peace", blew himself up in an open-air market in Chadera, killing five Israelis