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- 1838
- Honduras declares its independence from the Federal Republic of Central America.
- 1939
- Nazi Germany annexes Zichenau (Ciechanów), Suwalki (Suwałki), and Memelland (Klaipėda) and establishes the General Government in occupied Poland.
- 1954
- The New York State Thruway opens between Newburgh and Westmoreland.
- 1955
- South Vietnam is proclaimed a republic.
- 1957
- A statue of Vladimir Lenin is unveiled in Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR.
- 1969
- At 2 o’clock in the morning, the Central Time Zone is extended to include all of Kansas except for Sherman, Wallace, Greeley, Hamilton, and Kearny counties, which remain in the Mountain Time Zone.
- 2000
- Israel Railways opens Tel Aviv–University station in Tel Aviv.
- 2007
- The southern section of the Kallang–Paya Lebar Expressway opens in Singapore.
- 2020
- In Jacksonville, Florida, Hemming Park is renamed James Weldon Johnson Park to honor a civil rights activist instead of a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on October 26, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on October 26 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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