What happend on 26th October

25.10
27.10
2005

The Chicago White Sox win the World Series after defeating the Houston Astros 1-0 in a four game sweep. It is their first championship since 1917.

2005

Last day of Cream reunion shows at Madison Square Garden.

2002

Moscow Theater Siege ends: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian commandos storm the House of Culture theater in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels three days before.

2001

The United States passes the controversial USA Patriot Act into law.

2000

Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï

1999

Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.

1997

Basketball player Charles Barkley is charged with aggravated battery and resisting arrest after throwing Jorge Lugo through a plate glass window in a dance club in Orlando, Florida.

1997

The left arms of Chen Ming-Kuo and Yang Chung-ming are amputated by the rope in a 1,500-person tug-of-war contest in Taipei; both arms are successfully reattached later on.

1995

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.

1994

Announcement of Andrew Wiles correct proof of Fermat's last theorem.