Today's 26 October Fun Facts in History

1492 Lead (graphite) pencils are first used
1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer and splitting from rugby
1863 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields, leads to the formation of the Red Cross

1901 First recorded use of a "getaway car" occurs after a shop is held up in Paris

Sanger Arrested for Obscenity

1916 American sex educator Margaret Sanger is arrested for obscenity for advocating birth control

1918 Cecil Chubb gives the prehistoric monument Stonehenge to the British nation

1958 Pan Am flies the first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris
1970 The "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1977 Last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca District, Somalia, and is considered the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination
1984 Stephanie Fae Beauclair ("Baby Fae") receives a baboon heart transplant and lives for 21 days
1988 The US and Soviet Union collaborate in "Operation Breakthrough" to free two young gray whales trapped in the Arctic ice near Point Barrow, Alaska
2016 Jesus' supposed tomb is opened for the first time in 500 years by archaeologists for restoration at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem [1]

2017 Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, becoming the then world's youngest female head of government

2020 NASA announces there is more water on the Moon than previously thought in sunlit as well as shadowed regions [1]
2022 European Union's tallest building, the Varso Tower, a skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland, at 310 metres high, is completed [1]