Peace in the Desert: Israel and Jordan Sign a Treaty
On October 26, 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a treaty ending 46 years of war — only the second Arab-Israeli peace ever made.
On October 26
Twenty Days with a Borrowed Heart: The Baby Fae Story
On October 26, 1984, surgeons gave a dying twelve-day-old baby a baboon's heart — a twenty-day struggle that changed infant medicine.
Thirty-Six People and a Red Cross: How Geneva Changed War
On October 26, 1863, delegates from sixteen nations gathered in Geneva and founded the Red Cross — born from one man's horror at a battlefield.