On October 26, 1881, the Earp brothers faced off against the
Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the O.K.
Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly
grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest.

Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank
security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town
marshal, represented “law and order” in Tombstone, though
they also had reputations as being power-hungry and ruthless.

The Clantons and McLaurys were cowboys who lived on a ranch
outside of town and sidelined as cattle rustlers, thieves and
murderers.

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
(March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929)

Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944)

On this day in 1929, during the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B.
Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren
G. Harding’s cabinet, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while
in office. Fall, a U.S. senator from New Mexico, was the first
individual to be convicted of a crime committed while a
presidential cabinet member.

Warren Gamaliel Harding
(November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923)

1961

Marion Ross is best-known role is that of Marion Cunningham
on the ABC television sitcom Happy Days, on which she
starred from 1974 to 1984 and for which she received two
Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Since the 1990s, Ross has been known for voice-over work on
animated television series, including King of the Hill and
SpongeBob SquarePants. 

On October 25, 1964, after recovering a fumble against the 49ers
in San Francisco, Minnesota Vikings star defensive end Jim
Marshall ran 66 yards the wrong way into his own end zone.

The four-year veteran believes he has scored a touchdown, so
he throws the ball out of bounds in celebration, resulting in a
safety for San Francisco and putting an exclamation point on
one of the worst blunders in NFL history. Despite Marshall’s
error, the Vikings win, 27-22.

“It was the nuttiest thing I’d ever seen,” said Vikings offensive
tackle Grady Alderman. 

Marshall recovers the fumble (1) before running
in the wrong direction (2).

Born: December 30, 1937 (age 85)