Once Upon A Time – October 26 – 1863 – Football Association Forms In England, Standardizing Soccer, Splitting With Rugby

1850 Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time (from Banks Island towards Melville Island)

1861 Pony Express (Missouri to California) ends after 19 months

1863 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields – beginning of the Red Cross

2019 Raid by US Special Forces kills ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria

MORE HISTORICAL EVENTS

OCT 26 IN FILM & TV

1984 “The Terminator” directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton is released in the US

OCT 26 IN MUSIC

1919 Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, premieres at Queen’s Hall, London

OCT 26 IN SPORT

1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer, splitting with rugby

MORE FACTS…

1881 Gunfight at the OK Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs, between lawmen (including Wyatt Earp) and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed

1901 First recorded use of “getaway car” occurs after holding up a shop in Paris

FAMOUS WEDDINGS

1789 Lexicographer Noah Webster (31) weds Rebecca Greenleaf

1953 Tennis champion Tony Trabert (23) weds beauty queen Shauna Wood at the Salt Lake Country Club in Salt Lake City, Utah

1963 Actress Elizabeth Montgomery (30) weds director-producer William Asher (42) in El Paso, Texas