This Day In History

October 26th

1881  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona occured between the Earp brothers, with US Deputy Marshal Virgil Earp and his two hot-headed brothers, Wyatt and Morgan, against the Clanton-McLaury gang, consisting of a group of rustlers and horse thieves. The Earps commission John "Doc" Holliday, a drunken dentist and feared gunman who verbally abused the Clanton-McLaury gang and cheated two Clanton boys at cards. Firearms were banned in the town... Virgil Earp, watching the gang from down the street, deputizes his two brothers and Doc Holliday, and together they march up the street to confront their rivals. After Virgil demands that they give up their guns, Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton reach for their pistols, and Wyatt opens fire at Frank, whom he regards as a deadly shot. A split-second later Billy starts firing at Wyatt, and a moment after that, everyone is shooting.  Less than a minute later the smoke clears less than a minute later the gang was dead and Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, and Doc Holliday are injured, Wyatt Earp is untouched, and are cleared by their deputy status and the shooting is deemed justified.

1914  Actor Jackie Coogan
1946  Attorney & First Lady of 42nd US President Hillary Rodham Clinton
1946  TV Game Show Host Pat Sajak
1947  Actress Jaclyn Smith
1963  Actress Marla Maples, also married to Donald J. Trump

1957

• Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley

• Keep A Knockin' - Little Richard

• Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers

1965

• Yesterday - The Beatles

• A Lover's Concerto - The Toys

• Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones

• Hello Vietnam - Johnny Wright

1973

• Angie - The Rolling Stones

• Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and The Pips

• Keep on Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks

• Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez

1981

• Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do) - Christopher Cross

• Hard to Say - Dan Fogelberg

• The Night Owls - Little River Band

• Never Been So Loved (In All My Life) - Charley Pride

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