Today in History for 26th October 2022

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Historical Events

1863 - Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer, splitting with rugby
1916 - American sex educator Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1926 - Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga")
2003 - The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in Californian history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego
2015 - 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Pakistan and Afghanistan killing over 300
2018 - Longest Baseball World Series game by both innings and time; LA Dodgers beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2 in the 18th inning (7 hours, 20 mins) in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium with Max Muncy walk-off homer

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Famous Birthdays

1483 - Hans Buchner, German composer, born in Ravensburg (d. 1538)
1823 - Karl Weinhold, German sociologist (founder of Journal of the Association of Folklore), born in Dzierżoniów, Poland (d. 1901)
1916 - François Mitterrand, 21st President of France (1981-95), born in Jarnac, France (d. 1996)
1937 - Dave Gavitt, American basketball coach, formed Basketball's Big East Conference (1979), born in Westerly, Rhode Island (d. 2011)
1952 - Abbas al-Musawi, influential Lebanese Shia cleric, and founder and leader of Hezbollah, born in Al-Nabi Shayth, Lebanon (d. 1992)
1959 - François Chau, Cambodian actor, born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Famous Deaths

900 - Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon monarch who was King of Wessex and King of the Anglo-Saxons, dies at 50 or 51
1881 - Billy Clanton, brother of outlaw Ike Clanton, dies in the gunfight at the OK Corral at 19
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-British archaeologist, dies at 80
2004 - Bobby Ávila, Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (MLB All-Star 1952, 54, 55; AL batting champion 1954; Cleveland Indians), dies of diabetes and lung ailment at 80
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
2021 - Glen Tuckett American college basbeall coach (Brigham Young Uni 1959-76) and administrator (BYU athletic director 1976-94), dies at 93

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