MILESTONES: October 26, birthdays for Hillary Clinton, Keith Urban, Seth MacFarlane
NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include professional wrestler CM PUNK, who was born in 1978; actor TOM CAVANAUGH, who was born in 1963; former U.S. Secretary of State, former U.S. Sen. for N.Y., former first lady and former presidential Democratic nominee HILLARY CLINTON, who was born in 1947; Olympic medal-winning figure skater SASHA COHEN, who was born in 1984; basketball player NICK COLLISON, who was born in 1980; actor CARY ELWES, who was born in 1962; hockey player MIIKA KIPRUSOFF, who was born in 1976; actor DYLAN McDERMOTT, who was born in 1961; singer NATALIE MERCHANT, who was born in 1963; actor JAMES PICKENS JR., who was born in 1954; TV personality JEFF PROBST, who was born in 1961; filmmaker IVAN REITMAN, who was born in 1946; game show host PAT SAJAK, who was born in 1946; artist and filmmaker JULIAN SCHNABEL, who was born in Brooklyn in 1951; actress JACLYN SMITH, who was born in 1945; and country singer and TV personality KEITH URBAN, who was born in 1967.
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TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL. In 1881, the Earp brothers and gambler/dentist Doc Holliday confronted the Clanton and McLaury brothers at a vacant lot behind the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. After 30 seconds of gunfire, three deaths and decades of romanticizing, the incident would become the most notorious of the Old West. Marshal Virgil Earp and Deputy Marshals Wyatt and Morgan Earp attempted to disarm the Clanton faction, when gunfire erupted, although some witnesses claimed that the Clantons and McLaurys threw up their hands when ordered to. Billy Clanton and Frank and Thomas McLaury died. Virgil and Morgan Earp were wounded. After a 30-day murder trial, the presiding judge dismissed the charges, stating that the Earps and Holliday had acted in self-defense.