World Record On October26

National Day in Austria (1955)

1341 – The Byzantine army proclaimed chief minister John VI Kantakouzenos emperor, triggering a civil war between his supporters and those of John V Palaiologos, the heir to the throne.

1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, one of the most famous gunfights of the American Old West, took place in Tombstone, Arizona, between Ike Clanton's gang and lawmen led by Wyatt Earp.

1955 – Ngo Dinh Diem proclaimed himself president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam after defeating former Emperor Bao Dai in a fraudulent referendum supervised by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.

1977 – Somalian hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms in the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.

2000 – Laurent Gbagbo (pictured) became the first President of Ivory Coast since Robert Guéï was thrown out of power during the 1999 Ivorian coup d'état.

Source: Duta

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