Today is Monday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of 2015. There are 66 days left in the year.

October 26, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1774: The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

1825: The Erie Canal opens in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River.

1861: The legendary Pony Express officially ceases operations, giving way to the transcontinental telegraph. (The last run of the Pony Express was completed the following month.)

1881: The “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” takes place in Tombstone, Ariz.

1921: The Chicago Theatre, billed as “the Wonder Theatre of the World,” first opens.

1944: The World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf ends in a major Allied victory over Japanese forces, whose naval capabilities are badly crippled.

1949: President Harry S. Truman signs a measure raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.

1958: Pan American Airways flies its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in 8 hours and 41 minutes.

1965: The Beatles receive MBE medals as Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

1972: National security adviser Henry Kissinger declares, “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam.

1975: Anwar Sadat becomes the first Egyptian president to pay an official visit to the U.S.

1984: “Baby Fae,” a newborn with a severe heart defect, is given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, Calif. (Baby Fae lived 21 days with the animal heart.)

1994: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan sign a peace treaty during a ceremony at the Israeli-Jordanian border attended by President Bill Clinton.

2010: Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, is sentenced to death for persecuting members of Shiite religious parties under the former regime. (The sentence was never carried out; Aziz died of a heart attack in June 2015.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Youngstown Schools Superintendent Emanuel Catsoules says he is dead set against a proposal to send Choffin Career Center students to the Mahoning County Joint Vocational School and to close South and East high schools.

A construction crew breaks an 8-inch water main near International Towers, flooding an Ohio Edison electrical vault and leaving downtown Youngstown without electricity or telephone service for four hours. Banks and the Mahoning County Courthouse close for security reasons, and WFMJ-TV is knocked off the air.

The Cafaro Co. announces that it will build a 650,000-square-foot shopping mall outside Ashtabula that will house six anchor stores, 60 smaller stores and will be open by the fall of 1992.

1975: Youngstown City Council is planning to reconvene an investigation into a purported morale problem in the Youngstown Police Department.

Development of a public park and athletic facilities adjacent to Western Reserve High School hinges on Warren City Council’s appropriation of $23,000 toward purchase of the land.

Navy Commander Robert H. Shumaker, a Lawrence County, Pa., native who was the second pilot to be taken a prisoner of war in Vietnam, is nominated for promotion to captain. Shumaker was held from Feb. 11, 1965, to Feb. 12, 1973.

1965: At least 78 people who ate contaminated food at the Centro Hispano Moderno Club are treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital for acute food poisoning. Fourteen are kept overnight.

The Mahoning County Bar Association endorses Municipal Judge Don L. Hanni for the Jan. 2 term on the city bench.

The manager of a suburban Hills Department Store files charges against 12 East Liverpool merchants with illegal sales of nonessential items on Sunday.

Farrell City Council suggests to U.S. Rep. Joseph Vigorito that a branch Post Office be built in the eastern part of the city or that a new central office be constructed.

1940: City Tax Consultant William I. Davies stands by his estimate that “fixed” tickets have cost the city $11,000 in revenue in 1940.

The endorsement of Wendell L. Willkie by John L. Lewis, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is repudiated by many CIO affiliates and their leaders.

Members of Our Lady of Hungary Parish honor the Rev. Dr. John B. Mundwell, pastor of the church, on his earning a bachelor’s degree in music from Dana Musical Institute in Warren.

George W. Glasgow, principal of Woodrow Wilson High School, tells parents that “the white-collar job today is no better than any other job, and may be not so good” as he presides at dedication of new handicraft shops at the school.