1941 – Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.
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1845 – Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West
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1903 – Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners’ strike.
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1959 – The last Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music” opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway. Shortly after The Sound Of Music opened on broadway Oscar Hammerstein died from cancer. The Sound Of Music was made into an Academy Award winning movie in 1965 starring Julie Andrews.
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1931 – Actress Gloria Swanson (32) weds Michael Farmer
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1841 – First wagon train arrives in California
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October 26, 1881 — Possibly the most famous shootout in the history of America’s Wild West took place on this day – the Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
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1854 – Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War.
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1867 – Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million.
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1864 – Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery
