Daily Calendar for Tuesday, October 26, 2027

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2027-10-26T00:00:00
End: 2027-10-26T23:59:59

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Erie Canal opened in New York State – 1825
Pony Express service ended – 1861
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Tombstone, Arizona – 1881
President Harry Truman raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour – 1949
Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury debuted – 1970
A 1,496-pound tuna was caught near Auld’s Cove, Nova Scotia – 1979
St. Elsewhere made its television debut – 1982
Wayne Gretzky became the first NHL player in history to score 2,000 points – 1990
Michael Jackson received a patent for shoes that allow the wearer to lean far forward – 1993
At a Farmers Market in Windsor, California, a record-setting pumpkin pie, weighing 418 pounds, was served. (The record was beaten in 2010.) – 2003
Toronto’s Rob Krueger became the World Rock Paper Scissors champion – 2003
A 2,000-pound 8-foot-long cannon belonging to the infamous pirate Blackbeard was pulled from waters near Beaufort, North Carolina – 2011
A 2,000-pound, 8-foot-long cannon belonging to the infamous pirate Blackbeard was pulled from waters near Beaufort, North Carolina. – 2011

New York City received 4 inches of snow – 1859
-10 degrees F in Bismarck, North Dakota – 1919
Bismarck, North Dakota, recorded its earliest below-zero reading, -10 degrees F – 1919
The temperature in Boston, Massachusetts, was 84 degrees F – 1963
Eight tornadoes struck Indiana – 2010
A powerful storm carved across the Midwest with hurricane-like conditions and more than a dozen tornadoes. Bigfork, Minnesota, recorded the storm’s lowest pressure. It bottomed out at 955 millibars, a new U.S. record. – 2010