Today is Tuesday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of 2010. There are 66 days left in the year.

On this date:

In 1881, the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" took place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang. Three members of Clanton's group were killed; Earp's brothers and Holliday were wounded.

In 1958, Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in 8 hours and 41 minutes.

In 1970, the comic strip "Doonesbury," by Garry Trudeau, was first syndicated.

In 1972, national security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.

In 1990, CBS founder William S. Paley died in New York at age 89.

In 1994, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty during a ceremony at the Israeli-Jordanian border attended by President Bill Clinton..

Thought for Today:

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity." — Marie Curie, Polish-French scientist (1867-1934).