Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 26

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 * 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.
 * 1871 – Liberian president Edward James Roye (pictured) was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état.
 * 1892 – Ida B. Wells (pictured) began to publish her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2020.
 * 1902 – A group of Russian explorers led by Baron von Toll left their camp on Bennett Island and disappeared without a trace.
 * 1921 – The Chicago Theatre (pictured), the oldest surviving grand movie palace, opened.
 * 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm proclaimed himself president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam after defeating former emperor Bảo Đại in a fraudulent referendum supervised by his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
 * 1955 – The first buildings in the sacred Oyasato-yakata complex of the Japanese new religious movement Tenrikyo in Tenri, Nara, were completed.
 * 1977 – Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be naturally infected by the disease.


 * Born/died: | Cuthbert of Canterbury |d|760| Gómez González |d|1111| Michael Maestlin |d|1631| Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet |d|1671| C. W. Post |b|1854| William T. Anderson |d|1864|  Elizabeth Cady Stanton |d|1902|  Yamashita Yoshitsugu|d|1935