On October 26, 1885, Louis Pasteur exhibited his work on immunization against rabies at the Paris Academy of Sciences.
OTHER ANIMALS
1547.- Battle of Huarina (Peru): Gonzalo Pizarro’s forces defeat those sent by Charles I of Spain.
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1838.- Transfer of the mortal remains of the former “emperor” of Mexico, Agustín Itúrbide, to the cathedral of the capital.
1896. Signing of the Treaty of Addis Ababa by which Italy recognizes the independence of Abyssinia, present Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
1905.- Sweden recognizes Norway as an independent State.
1955.- General Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims the Republic of Vietnam, known as South Vietnam, in Saigon, and he becomes its first president.
1958.- Inaugural flight of the Pan Am Boeing 707 Clipper America, between New York and Paris.
1965.- “The Beatles” receive the Order of the British Empire in London.
1984.- Premiere of the film “Terminator” (James Cameron), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1994.- Jordan and Israel, in the presence of the United States, sign a peace treaty, preceded by the Washington declaration of July 25 of that year and which ended 46 years of belligerence between both countries.
1997.- Legislative elections in Argentina. The Justicialists lose their absolute majority.
1998.- The presidents of Ecuador, Jamil Mahuad, and of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, sign a peace agreement in Brasilia that puts an end to 170 years of border disagreements.
1999.- The House of Lords of the United Kingdom approves the bill that advocates ending the right to hereditary seats and votes of nobles in that Upper House.
2001.- US President George W. Bush signs the new anti-terrorist law, which allows communications to be intercepted over the Internet.
2002.- A Chechen commando holds more than 800 people in the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow. The crisis ended with Russian military intervention and 169 deaths.
2004.- The Supreme Court of Argentina validates the mandatory conversion of deposits in dollars into pesos applied in 2002.
2006.- US President George W. Bush signs the law to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
2008.- Former Colombian congressman Óscar Tulio Lizcano is rescued by the Army, after more than eight years in power by the FARC guerrilla.
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2010.- 454 people die and about 90 disappear after the 7.5 Richter scale earthquake and subsequent tsunami that shook the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
2011.- Mexican authorities announce the arrest of Adrián Ramírez Soria, alleged leader of the Centro cartel.
2012.- Microsoft launches Windows 8 operating system.
.- Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sentenced to 4 years in prison by the Criminal Court of Milan for a crime of tax fraud in the “Mediaset Case”.
2014.- Dilma Rousseff is re-elected president of Brazil.
2017.- US President Donald Trump allows the publication of more than 2,800 classified documents about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
2019.- In the Vatican, the Synod on the Amazon approves the proposal to ordain married men as priests in the most isolated areas of that region.
2020.- American scientists from NASA find unequivocal data detecting water on the Moon and bags that can house it.
2021.- Princess Mako of Japan marries the commoner Kei Komuro and leaves the Japanese imperial family, losing her status.
2022.- A study with laser light reveals the existence of an urban settlement in the ruins of Calakmul (Campeche): These are temples, palaces, housing complexes and transformations to the landscape, such as terraces and canals, which are hidden by the jungle. (National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico).
BIRTH
1912.- Don Siegel, American film director and producer.
1916.- Francois Mitterrand, former president of France.
1919.- Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
1942.- Milton Nascimento, Brazilian composer and singer.
1947. Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State.
1951.- Julian Schnabel, American painter.
1959.- Evo Morales Ayma, president of Bolivia.
DEATHS
1608.- Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish painter.
1998.- José Augusto Cardoso Pires, Portuguese writer.
2006.- Rogério Duprat, Brazilian musician.
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2007.- Arthur Kornberg, American, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
2018.- Ana González de Recabarren, Chilean activist.
2021.- Walter Smith, legendary football coach of Glasgow Rangers.
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