October 26 is:
National Mincemeat Pie Day
Per Foodimentary.com
Mince pies are descended from a huge pie baked on Christmas Eve containing chopped beef, suet, nuts, spices and fruit of which whole dried plums were an important constituent.
It was generally served as an entree.
Gradually the meat content was reduced, and today the mixture contains nuts, dried fruit (raisins, apples, pears, citrus peel, etc.), beef suet, spices and brandy or rum, but no beef.
Mincemeat is used primarily in pies and tarts.
The first Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Congress met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts and the Congress petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances. Fifty-six delegates from all the colonies except Georgia drafted a Declaration of Rights and Grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as the first president of Congress. Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, and John Jay were among the delegates.
A year later, in 1775 – King George III of Great Britain went before Parliament to declare the American colonies were in rebellion, and to authorize a military response to quell the American Revolution.
The Pony Express officially ceased operations. From April 3, 1860, to October 1861, it became the West’s most direct means of east–west communication before the telegraph was established and was vital for tying the new state of California with the rest of the country.
Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and “Doc” Holliday confronted Ike Clanton’s gang in a gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz in 1881. When the dust cleared, Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers were dead, and Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday were wounded. Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne had run for the hills. Sheriff John Behan of Cochise County, who witnessed the shootout, charged the Earps and Holliday with murder. A month later, however, a Tombstone judge found the men not guilty, ruling that they were “fully justified in committing these homicides.” The famous shootout has been immortalized in many movies, including Frontier Marshal (1939), Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), Tombstone (1993) and Wyatt Earp (1994).
October 26, 1905 – Norway became independent from Sweden. Per Wikipedia: The United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its peaceful dissolution in 1905. Over the years, a divergence of Norwegian and Swedish interests became apparent. In particular, Norwegians felt that their foreign policy interests were inadequately served by Sweden’s ministry of foreign affairs. There were several driving factors behind the growing conflict:
- Norway’s economy was more dependent on foreign trade and thus more sensitive to the protectionist measures favored by the mercantalist Swedish government at the time.
- Norway had trading and other links with the United Kingdom whereas Sweden had closer links with Germany.
- Norway had more interests than Sweden did outside Europe.
In addition, Norwegian politics were increasingly dominated by liberal tendencies characterized by the extension of parliamentary democracy, while Swedish politics tended to be more conservative.
Birthday of Hillary Rodham Clinton (October 26, 1947), wife of William Jefferson Clinton; first lady 1993-2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She lost to President Donald J. Trump.
1949 – U.S. President Harry Truman raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.