On this day: October 26
POSTED: 12:17 PM PDT Oct 25, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 25, 2012
The Erie Canal opens, the Pony Express closes, Wyatt Earp shoots it out in Tombstone, "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart, and the Patriot Act is signed into law, all on this day.
National Air And Space Museum
1958: Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France. While not the first jetliner in service, the Boeing 707 would be the first to prove commercially successful and would dominate passenger air transport in the 1960s and remain common through the 1970s.
