Shimla, Oct. 26 Keekli Bureau
2005
The Chicago White Sox defeated the Houston Astros to win the team’s first World Series title since 1917.
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.
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.
1958
America’s first jet airliner, the Boeing 707, entered service for Pan American World Airways.
1955
A constitutional law of perpetual neutrality in Austria was promulgated.
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.
1916
François Mitterrand, who served two terms (1981–95) as president of France and was the country’s first socialist to hold the office, was born.
1905
The St. Petersburg soviet (workers’ council) was formed during the Russian Revolution of 1905.
1825
After some eight years of construction, the Erie Canal, which connects the Great Lakes with New York City via the Hudson River at Albany, officially opened; its success propelled New York City into a major commercial centre and encouraged canal construction throughout the United States.
1813
British and U.S. troops clashed in the Battle of Châteauguay during the War of 1812.
1795
The National Convention, the assembly that governed France during a pivotal period of the Revolution, was dispersed.
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