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OCTOBER 26

1829 Nqetho, Qwabe chief, forces the Rev JW Shepstone to abandon the Morley mission station. Nqetho is murdered in December of that year on orders from Dingane. 1859 The steam clipper Royal Charter is wrecked on the Welsh coast with 459 dead. 1861 The Wild West’s famed Pony Express postal system ends after 19 months. 1863 A conference begins in Geneva to improve medical conditions on battlefields. It is the beginning of the Red Cross. 1881 The storied Gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona takes place. On the one side stood the so-called forces of law and order: Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Doc Holliday. By reputation these were power-hungry and ruthless men. Opposing them were the outlaws Billy and Ike Clanton, Tom and Frank Mclaury, and Billy Claiborne. It lasted for just 30 seconds, when around 30 shots were fired. 1916 Nurse Margaret Sanger is arrested for obscenity for having advocated birth control. 1918 Cecil Chubb gives prehistoric monument Stonehenge to the British nation. 1918 Germany’s supreme commander, General Eric Ludendorff, resigns in protest over the unfair terms to which the German government has agreed in negotiating an armistice ending World War I. 1922 Gertrude Bell, a remarkable arabist and explorer who had a lot to do with the borders of the Middle East, is appointed Honorary Director of Antiquities in new Department of Antiquities in Baghdad, Iraq. 1950 Mother Teresa founds the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India. 1976 Transkei gains independence, but it is not recognised outside of South Africa. 1977 The last natural case of smallpox is discovered in the Merca district of Somalia. This is the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination. 1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2 million for 4 months’ advisory service. 2014 Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper and captain Senzo Meyiwa is shot dead by two assailants, who remain at large, in Vosloorus. | THE HISTORIAN

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