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Friday, October 26 Fighting occurs about noon in the Jutadomb area of the 20th (now 23rd) district. In the afternoon, rebels occupy the Csepel police headquarters (21st District).

4.13 p.m. The radio broadcasts a statement by the HWP Central Committee promising a new, national government, Hungarian-Soviet negotiations to be conducted on a basis of equality, elections for factory workers’ councils, pay rises, and economic and political changes.

5.32 p.m.: An amnesty declaration by the Presidential Council is broadcast. It applies to all who lay down their arms by 10 p.m.

A consignment of blood and medicines sent from Warsaw arrives at Budapest Ferihegy Airport. This is the first aid to Hungary from abroad.

Rebel groups are formed in the Thököly út-Dózsa György út area (7th District) and at Széna tér (2nd District). Rebels occupy Móricz Zsigmond körtér (11th District), and the Danuvia Arms Factory.

Demonstrations begin in Kecskemét during the morning. A volley fired by soldiers claims three lives. By evening there is a battle being fought between the rebels and the military, which fires shots on the Gypsy quarter from two MIG 15 fighter planes.

A revolutionary committee is formed in Baja, and a national council in Gyõr. A curfew is imposed in Pécs after continued demonstrations. Fighting continues between the army and the rebels in Dunapentele (Sztálinváros, Dunaújváros)

A workers’ council is established at the Komló Colliery Trust and a socialist revolutionary committee in Debrecen.

There are demonstrations in several provincial towns. They include Békéscsaba, Eger, Esztergom, Gyöngyös, Gyõr, Gyula, Kaposvár, Komárom, Komló, Miskolc, Mohács, Nyíregyháza, Oroszlány, Pápa, Siófok, Sopron, Szeged, Székesfehérvár, Szekszárd, Szentes, Szigetvár, Szolnok, Tatabánya and Veszprém.

Border guards at Mosonmagyaróvár fire on demonstrators, killing 52 and wounding 86. Soldiers fire on demonstrators from a tunnel just below the basilica in Esztergom, causing 15 deaths and at least 50 injuries. At Zalaegerszeg, police and party functionaries fire on the crowd. There are fatalities and injuries in Nagykanizsa when volleys are fired from the party headquarters.

Convicts at the Oroszlány and Tatabánya labour camps are freed. Insurrectionists attack the barracks at Tata at dawn. In the evening, demonstrators take over the count