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October 26 in history

206 sourced entries recorded on October 26, from 428 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 428The planet Venus occults the planet Jupiter.source
  • 664The plague claims Cedd, Bishop of London.source
  • 740740 Constantinople earthquake. An earthquake strikes Constantinople and the surrounding countryside, causing destruction to the city's land walls and buildings.source
  • 1326After eight days, the castle of Bristol is captured by Queen Isabella, and Hugh Despenser the elder is taken captive. With Bristol secured, Isabella moves her base of operations to Hereford, near the Welsh border. There, she orders Henry of Lancaster to locate and arrest Edward II.source
  • 1366Comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle passes 0.0229 AU from Earth.source
  • 1377Stefan Tvrtko is crowned as the first King of Bosnia at a monastery in Mileševa on the feast day of Saint Demetrius.source
  • 1383The English Parliament is opened at Westminster for a one-month session. The House of Commons re-elects Sir James Pickering as Speaker of the House.source
  • 1406Erik of Pomerania, ruler of the Kalmar Union, marries Philippa, daughter of Henry IV of England, in Lund Cathedral.source
  • 1409Representatives of the Venetian Republic (in modern-day Italy) and the Principality of Zeta (part of modern-day Serbia) sign a peace treaty to halt the First Scutari War for one year.source
  • 1409King Henry IV of England summons the English Parliament to assemble, starting on January 27.source
  • 1474In a peace treaty between King Edward IV of England and King James III of Scotland, an agreement is reached for the betrothal and eventual marriage of King Edward's daughter Cecily to King James' eldest son and future King of Scotland, James, Duke of Rothsay.source
  • 1494Amda Seyon II is deposed and killed, and his uncle Na'od succeeds him as Emperor of Ethiopia.source
  • 1499King Louis XII of France and his troops seize Milan, driving out Duke Ludovico Sforza, and Leonardo da Vinci flees to Venice.source
  • 1529Cardinal Thomas Wolsey falls from power in England, due to his failure to obtain an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage and to prevent Habsburg expansion in Europe. Thomas More succeeds him as Lord Chancellor.source
  • 1530The Knights of Malta are formed, when the Knights Hospitaller are given Malta by Charles V. They transfer the island capital from Mdina to Birgu.source
  • 1557October 24 – October 28: the Earl of Sussex, Lord Deputy of Ireland, campaigns against Shane O'Neill, burning Armagh on 27 October.source
  • 1562Rouen is captured by Royalist forces under King Antoine of Navarre, who is mortally wounded.source
  • 1566Aodh mac Maghnusa Ó Domhnaill becomes king of Tír Chonaill and The O'Donnell in succession to his half-brother Calvagh O'Donnell.source
  • 1576In Germany, Ludwig of Simmern becomes the new Elector Palatine of the Rhine 10 days after the death of his father, Frederick III, taking office at the Palatinate capital at Heidelberg as Ludwig VI.source
  • 1582October 26 (Julian) (November 5 Gregorian) – General Yermak Timofeyevich completes the Russian conquest of Siberia in the Battle of Chuvash Cape as Kuchum Khan abandons Qashliq, the capital of the Khanate of Sibir. The Qashliq fortress will be torn down and a new town, Tobolsk will be built 11 mi further up the Irtysh river.source
  • 1584At the Battle of Slunj in the Kingdom of Croatia, an Ottoman invasion led by Ferhad Pasha Sokolović is turned back by Croatian forces, aided by troops of the Habsburg monarchy.source
  • 1587Royalist forces commanded by Henry I, Duke of Guise won the Battle of Vimory.source
  • 1589Japanese warlord Date Masamune and his forces capture the Sukagawa Castle, defended by his aunt Onamihime Nikaido, after her assistant Hodohara Yukifuji betrays her.source
  • 1591The Portuguese invasion of the Jaffna Kingdom begins on the north side of the island of Sri Lanka.source
  • 1595Battle of Giurgiu: Michael the Brave, led by Transylvanian Prince Sigismund Báthory, again defeats the Turkish army led by Sinan Pasha, pushing them on the east side of the Danube.source
  • 1596Battle of Keresztes: The Ottoman Empire Turks defeat a combined Habsburg–Transylvanian army, after two days of fighting: .source
  • 1597Battle of Myeongnyang: The Koreans, commanded by Yi Sunsin, are victorious over a Japanese invasion fleet.source
  • 1601Johannes Kepler, assistant to Tycho Brahe, is promoted to the position of Royal Mathematician of the Holy Roman Empire after Brahe's sudden death.source
  • 1640The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between the Scottish Covenanters and Charles I of England.source
  • 1640Treaty of Ripon signed between the King and the Covenanters.source
  • 1656King Si Suthammaracha of Ayutthaya (now Thailand) is overthrown in a coup d'etat by his nephew and former ally, Prince Narai, 11 weeks after having staged a coup to seize the throne. Narai is crowned as King Ramathibodi III.source
  • 1686the Roman Catholic lawyer and politician Richard Nagle writes the 'Coventry letter' to Tyrconnell attacking land settlement in Ireland.source
  • 1688King James II of England dismisses his minister Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland.source
  • 1689Skopje fire of 1689 occurs, lasting for two days and burning much of the city.source
  • 1704Richard Levinge, member of the Irish House of Commons, is created 1st Levinge Baronet, of High Park in the County of Westmeath.source
  • 1708Topping out of new St Paul's Cathedral in London.source
  • 1708topping out of the new St Paul's Cathedral in London.source
  • 1726Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is published in Londonsource
  • 1726Women are formally allowed employment at the Kungliga Hovkapellet, the first officially employed females being Judith Fischer and Sophia Schröder.source
  • 1730Cron Printz Christian departs from Copenhagen, bound for Canton. It is the first Danish expedition to China. She arrives back in Copenhagen on 27 June 1732.source
  • 1774The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.source
  • 1775American Revolution: George III announces to Parliament that the American colonies are in an uprising and must be dealt with accordingly.source
  • 1787The Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen is inaugurated.source
  • 1790Kingdom of Coorg became a Protectorate of East India Company.source
  • 1802A powerful 7.9 earthquake shakes the Romanian district of Vrancea destroying hundreds of buildings, triggering landslides and killing 4 people. This earthquake is considered one of the strongest to have shaken Europe.source
  • 1811The Argentine Government declares freedom of expression for the press.source
  • 1811HDMS Najaden is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.source
  • 1813October 24–November 5 – Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan at the end of the Russo-Persian War, by which Persia loses modern-day Georgia, Dagestan and most of Azerbaijan to Russia.source
  • 1813War of 1812 – Battle of the Chateauguay: Charles de Salaberry defeats an American invasion.source
  • 1825The Erie Canal opens, providing passage from Albany, New York to Buffalo and Lake Erie.source
  • 1825US finishes Erie Canal from Buffalo to Hudson River and New York City.source
  • 1828English naturalist and explorer William John Burchell collects the only known specimen of Parabouchetia brasiliensis, an exceptionally rare member of the nightshade family Solanaceae, in central Brazil.source
  • 1828The Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria is established in Russia to maintain the charitable institutions previously under the patronage of the late Empress.source
  • 1831Cholera epidemic begins in Sunderland.source
  • 1857October 24 – 28 enslaved people escape their enslavers in Maryland.source
  • 1859The steamship Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, Wales, with 454 dead.source
  • 1860Garibaldi again defeats the Neapolitan forces, advancing on Gaeta, the last remaining Neapolitan strong-point.source
  • 1860Meeting at Teano: Giuseppe Garibaldi gives Naples to King Victor Emmanuel II, recognizing him as King of Italy.source
  • 1861The Pony Express American transcontinental mail service announces its closure.source
  • 1863October 26–29 – The Resolutions of the Geneva International Conference are signed by sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agreeing to form the International Red Cross.source
  • 1863October 26–29 – The Grand Duchy of Baden, Kingdom of Bavaria, Kingdom of Hanover, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Kingdom of Prussia and Kingdom of Saxony are among the signatories to the Resolutions of the Geneva International Conference leading to formation of the International Red Cross and the German Red Cross.source
  • 1865The paddlewheel steamer SS Republic sinks off the Georgia coast, with a cargo of $400,000 in coins.source
  • 1871Liberian President Edward James Roye is deposed in a coup d'état.source
  • 1876José María Iglesias begins his disputed presidency of Mexico.source
  • 1881The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurs in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.source
  • 1898A collision between two Japanese steamers at sea kills 60 Japanese sailors.source
  • 1899The foundering of the British steamer Zurich off of the coast of Norway kills 16 of the 17 crew aboard, with only the captain surviving.source
  • 1902The first season of competitive football in Brazil concludes with a victory for São Paulo Athletic Club.source
  • 1905October 26 Sweden–Norway agrees to the repeal of the union with Norway, forming the two modern-day countries.source
  • 1909The Olympic Committee of Portugal foundedsource
  • 19191919 Luxembourg general election, the first in the duchy with female suffrage, following constitutional amendments of May 15.source
  • 1924An internal political crisis named “Crisis of the commanders” because some high-ranking military personnel refused to give up their seats in the parliament (see 3 March)source
  • 1925October 19–29 – Incident at Petrich: A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and is shot by border guards.source
  • 1929October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).source
  • 1934October 20–November 3 – Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco, in the Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.source
  • 1935Lord Edward Carson, the Dublin-born unionist leader and barrister, is buried in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.source
  • 1940Double-decker buses replace the last cable trams in Melbourne.source
  • 1940October 26–28 – WWII: RMS Empress of Britain, serving as a troopship under the British flag, is bombed, torpedoed and sunk off the Donegal coast, with the loss of 45 lives. At 42,348 GRT, she is the war's largest merchant ship loss.source
  • 1942All Jewish men in Norway over 15 are arrested; all Jewish property is ordered confiscated. See the Holocaust in Norway for more.source
  • 1944October 23–26 – WWII: Naval Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines – In the largest naval battle in history by most criteria and the last naval battle in history between battleships, combined United States and Australian naval forces decisively defeat the Imperial Japanese Navy.source
  • 1948Donora Smog of 1948: A killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.source
  • 1951Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (a month before his 77th birthday) in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government, after 6 years in power.source
  • 1955After the last Allied troops have left Austria, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, the country declares its permanent neutrality.source
  • 1955Ngô Đình Diệm proclaims Vietnam to be a republic, with himself as its President (following the State of Vietnam referendum on October 23), and forms the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.source
  • 1956Soviet Red Army troops invade Hungary.source
  • 1956Turkey joined the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAsource
  • 1958A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 makes its first transatlantic flight.source
  • 195830-year-old Thomas Reginald Sonter, a New Zealand carpenter employed on the Snowy Mountains Scheme discovers the wreckage of the Australian National Airways Avro 10 aircraft, VH-UMF Southern Cloud near Cabramurra on the western side of the Snowy Mountains, 60 miles from Cooma, New South Wales. The aircraft had been missing since it crashed in 1931.source
  • 1961December 16 -Vikrahraun basaltic eruptionsource
  • 1961An accident occurred in which a suburban train was involved in a landslide caused by torrential rain and buried in Oita to Beppu line in Oita Prefecture, according to Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan, official confirmed report, 31 people lost their lives and 36 people were injured.source
  • 1962October 14–28 — The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.source
  • 1962Spiegel affair: German police occupy the offices of Der Spiegel in Hamburg.source
  • 1963Sultan Idris Al-Mutawakil Alallahi Shah was installed as the 33rd Sultan of Perak.source
  • 1964Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last man executed in Western Australia, for murdering 8 citizens in Perth between 1959 and 1963.source
  • 1965Operación 90: Argentina launches its first ground expedition to the South Pole.source
  • 1966A fire aboard the US aircraft carrier USS Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin kills 44 crewmen.source
  • 1967U.S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner. His capture is confirmed two days later, and he remains a prisoner of war for more than five years.source
  • 1967The coronation ceremony of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, ruler of the nation since 1941, takes place.source
  • 1972A coup in the Republic of Dahomey (later Benin) led by Mathieu Kérékou removes a civilian government (which has been headed by a triumvirate consisting of Ahomadégbé, Apithy and Maga).source
  • 1973The United Nations recognizes the independence of Guinea-Bissau.source
  • 1974Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN) sets off 5 bombs in Manhattan, with their largest bomb set off in the Financial District.source
  • 1977Space Shuttle program: Last test taxi flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise, over California.source
  • 1977The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, a great success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science.source
  • 1979The eradication of the smallpox virus is announced by the World Health Organization, making smallpox the first of only two human diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).source
  • 1981Urho Kekkonen, the 8th President of Finland, resigns after being the longest-serving Finnish president since 1956.source
  • 198220 Members of parliament signed a partition which urges the Prime-minister to use his emergency powers against Communist insurgents.source
  • 1984The science fiction action film The Terminator premieres. It is the third film directed by James Cameron, and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn.source
  • 1986The state funeral of President Samora Machel of Mozambique takes place in Maputo.source
  • 1986Bus deregulation goes into effect in the United Kingdom, except Greater London and Northern Ireland.source
  • 1988Steaua plays against Spartak Moscow.source
  • 1989The crash of China Airlines Flight 204 in Hualien County.source
  • 1995An avalanche hits the village Flateyri in Iceland, killing 20 people, the second of two deadly avalanches to occur in Iceland during this calendar year.source
  • 1997The Taliban change the name of the country to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, underlining the importance of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who is known as amir al-momineen (Leader of the Faithful), although his constitutional position remains unclear. Although controlling about two-thirds of the country, the Taliban have only been recognized by three countries - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates - as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's seat in the UN is occupied by representatives of the administration of Burhanuddin Rabbani that has been ousted from Kabul 13 months ago, while the Organization of the Islamic Conference declared Afghanistan's seat vacant.source
  • 19981998 Indonesia Open starts.source
  • 1999Five Lao student leaders are arrested for attempting to organize a peaceful protest demanding democratic reforms.source
  • 2000Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparent mummy of an alleged Persian Princess in the province of Balochistan, Pakistan. The governments of Iran, Pakistan as well as the Taliban of Afghanistan all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a modern-day forgery in April 2001.source
  • 2002October 23–26 – Chechen rebels take control of the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow and hold the audience hostage. At least 170 people are killed following a Russian attempt to subdue the militants.source
  • 2010Repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, and accompanying pyroclastic flows of scalding gas, pumice, and volcanic ash descending the erupting volcano kill 353 people and force hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate.source
  • 2010Nairobi Mayor Geoffrey Majiwa steps aside after being charged for his alleged involvement in a cemetery land corruption scandalsource
  • 2012Microsoft releases Windows 8 to the general public.source
  • 2012October 22 – November 2 – Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 900 miles (1,400 km)), wreaks havoc, resulting in 233 total deaths and $68.7 billion (2012 USD) damage.source
  • 2015In Garkalne Municipality on A2 road truck knocked down a children training team of Riga Cycling school, suffered an accident 13 people.source
  • 2015A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes the Hindu Kush region and causes 398 deaths, with 279 in Pakistan, 115 in Afghanistan and 4 in India.source
  • 2018Red Dead Redemption II is released on PS4 and Xbox One. It would become the 8th best selling video game of all-time with 50,000,000+ copies sold.source
  • 2019The Amazon Catholic bishops synod proposes that married men be ordained as priests, which would reverse the Church's centuries-old discipline of celibacy.source
  • 2020NASA confirms the existence of molecular water on the sunlit side of the Moon, near Clavius crater, at concentrations of up to 412 parts per million.source
  • 2024Czech Airlines ceases operations after 101 years of service.source
  • 20252025 Argentine legislative election: Incumbent President Javier Milei's party La Libertad Avanza wins the election with over 40% of the votes.source
  • 2025El Fashir massacre: Mass murder is reported during which an estimated 2,500 or more civilians have been executed by the Rapid Support Forces in the city of El Fashir, Sudan.source

Births

  • 1416Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (died 1490)source
  • 1427Archduke Sigismund of Austria (died 1496)source
  • 1431Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian politician (died 1505)source
  • 1483Hans Buchner, German Renaissance composer (died 1538)source
  • 1491Zhengde Emperor of China (died 1521)source
  • 1529Anna of Hesse, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken (died 1591)source
  • 1551Charlotte de Sauve, French courtesan (died 1617)source
  • 1551Charlotte de Sauve, courtesan (died 1617)source
  • 1556Ahmad Baba al Massufi, Malian academic (died 1627)source
  • 1564Hans Leo Hassler, German composer and organist (died 1612)source
  • 1596Robert Coe, American colonial (died 1689)source
  • 1611Ove Bjelke, Chancellor of Norway (died 1674).source
  • 1612Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (died 1658)source
  • 1654Giovanni Maria Lancisi, Italian physician (died 1720)source
  • 1673Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian linguist and scholar (died 1723)source
  • 1683Christian Berregaard, Supreme Court justice, government official and landowner (died 1750)source
  • 1685Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (died 1757)source
  • 1697John Peter Zenger, German printer and journalist in New York City (died 1746)source
  • 1759Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (died 1794)source
  • 1800Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (died 1891)source
  • 1802Miguel I of Portugal, king (died 1866)source
  • 1916François Mitterrand, President of France (died 1996)source
  • 1919Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (died 1980)source
  • 1947Hillary Clinton, American politician, First Lady, US Senator (D-Ny.), Secretary of State, and 2016 Democratic presidential candidatesource
  • 1959Evo Morales, President of Boliviasource
  • 1973Seth MacFarlane, American actor, screenwriter, producer, director and singersource
  • 1978CM Punk, American professional wrestlersource
  • 2015Self Assured, Standardbred racehorsesource
  • 2020Orchestral, Thoroughbred racehorsesource

Deaths

  • 664Cedd, bishop of Londonsource
  • 747Witta of Büraburg, Anglo-Saxon missionarysource
  • 760Cuthbert, archbishop of Canterburysource
  • 899King Alfred the Great dies after a 28-year reign in which he has forced invading Danish Vikings to withdraw, consolidated England around Wessex, divided parts of Mercia into shires, compiled the best laws of earlier kings, encouraged learning by bringing famous scholars to Wessex and made his own translations of Latin works. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Edward the Elder as king of Wessex.source
  • 899Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (born 849)source
  • 930Li Qi, chancellor of Later Liang (born 871)source
  • 1104Johann I, bishop of Speyersource
  • 1111October 26 (probable year) – Gómez González, Castilian nobleman, killed in battlesource
  • 1132Floris the Black, Dutch count of Hollandsource
  • 1229Fulk of Pavia, Italian prelate and bishopsource
  • 1232Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, English nobleman (born 1170)source
  • 1243Bernat Calbó (or Calvó), Catalan bishopsource
  • 1317Alice of Hainault, French noblewoman (House of Avesnes)source
  • 1343Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, Lord of Moylurg;source
  • 1343Ferghal mac Diarmata becomes Lord of Moylurg after his brother, Conchobhar Mac Diarmada, dies.source
  • 1440Gilles de Rais, French lord (born c. 1405)source
  • 1494Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (born c. 1487)source
  • 1566Calvagh O'Donnell, King of Tír Chonaill.source
  • 1573Laurentius Petri, the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (born 1499)source
  • 1576Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (born 1515)source
  • 1580Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (born 1549)source
  • 1614Sibylla of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Württemberg (1593–1608) (born 1564)source
  • 1623"Fatal Vespers": 95 people are killed when an upper floor of the French ambassador's house in London collapses under the weight of a congregation attending a mass.source
  • 1631Catherine de Parthenay, French noblewoman and mathematician (born 1554)source
  • 1666Abbas II, the Shah of Iran, dies at the age of 34 after a reign of 24 years, without designating a successor. His 18-year old son Sam Mirza is crowned as the new Safavid dynasty emperor six days later.source
  • 1671Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (born 1593)source
  • 1694Samuel von Pufendorf, German philosopher (born 1632)source
  • 1751Philip Doddridge, English nonconformist religious leader (born 1702)source
  • 1756Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, governor of New France (born 1693)source
  • 1764William Hogarth, English painter and satirist (born 1697)source
  • 1764William Hogarth, painter and satirist (born 1697)source
  • 1806John Graves Simcoe, English army officer and colonial administrator, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (born 1752)source
  • 1819Thomas Johnson, American politician and jurist (born 1732)source
  • 1828Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (born 1752)source
  • 1845Lady Nairne, Scottish songwriter (born 1766)source
  • 1870The Chinese leaders of June's Tianjin Massacre of foreigners are executed by China's Imperial government.source
  • 1890Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (The Adventures of Pinocchio) (born 1826)source
  • 1902Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (born 1815)source
  • 1908Enomoto Takeaki, politician, President of the Republic of Ezo (born 1836)source
  • 1909Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun, an activist of the Korean independence movement, at the Harbin railway station in Manchuria.source
  • 1909Itō Hirobumi, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (born 1841)source
  • 1909Itō Hirobumi, statesman (born 1841)source
  • 1923Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-American engineer and electrician (born 1865)source
  • 1952Hattie McDaniel, American actress (born 1893)source
  • 1965Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (born 1949)source
  • 1979Park Chung Hee, the President of South Korea, is assassinated by KCIA director Kim Jae-gyu.source
  • 1979Park Chung Hee, 61, South Korean politician, president (since 1963), shot.source
  • 1979President Park Chung Hee, 61 (assassinated)source