October 26

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Hillary Rodham Clinton United States senator, first lady, and secretary of state READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1979 Park Chung Hee assassinated READ MORE

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2005: The Chicago White Sox defeated the Houston Astros to win the team's first World Series title since 1917. [How much do you know about baseball?]

1984: The action thriller The Terminator was released in the United States; hugely successful, it made actor Arnold Schwarzenegger a star and established director James Cameron as a bankable filmmaker. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about films.]

1970: Following an absence of more than three years, American boxer Muhammad Ali returned to the ring, defeating Jerry Quarry; Ali had been barred from fighting after he refused to be inducted into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. [Test your knowledge of boxing.]

1958: America's first jet airliner, the Boeing 707, entered service for Pan American World Airways. [Take our quiz about aircraft and air travel.]

1955: A constitutional law of perpetual neutrality in Austria was promulgated. [Test your knowledge of European history.]

1918: Prussian General Erich Ludendorff was forced to resign by Emperor William II on Prince Maximilian's advice, in an effort to establish an armistice agreement. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about World War I.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1947 Hillary Clinton United States senator, first lady, and secretary of state

1973 Seth MacFarlane American writer, animator, actor, and producer

1919 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi shah of Iran

1967 Keith Urban Australian singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1911 Mahalia Jackson American singer

1916 François Mitterrand president of France

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