Gunfight at the OK Corral: Earps vs the Cowboys, 30 Seconds
Thirty seconds. Thirty shots. The men stood six feet apart in a vacant lot next to a photography studio—not at the O.K. Corral, despite what every movie would later claim. Wyatt Earp walked away without a scratch while his brothers bled. Nobody cared until 1931, when a writer published a mostly fictional biography two years after Wyatt died. The Depression-era public wanted heroes. They got a legend that never happened where everyone thinks it did.
October 26, 1881
145 years ago
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What Else Happened on October 26
Roman soldiers arrested Demetrius during Emperor Diocletian's persecution of Christians. He was a deacon in Thessaloniki, secretly baptizing converts. They lock…
Der Apollontempel zu Daphne brennt bis auf die Grundmauern nieder. Der römische Kaiser Julian bezichtigt die Christen der Brandstiftung und lässt zahlreiche Kir…
en la basílica de Santa María la Mayor (Roma), los seguidores del papa Dámaso I atacan a los seguidores del papa Ursino ―que hoy se cuenta entre los 36 antipapa…
en Constantinopla (Imperio bizantino) se registra un fuerte terremoto.
The earthquake hit Constantinople at dawn. The city walls cracked. The aqueduct collapsed. Thousands died in their homes. Emperor Leo III was in the palace when…
bataille de Kojima (guerre de Genpei), les hommes du clan Minamoto l'emportent sur ceux du clan Taira.
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