On this day in music history - Hello (Turn Your Radio On), by Shakespears Sister (1992):

Hello (Turn Your Radio On)

Song by Shakespears Sister,
released October 26, 1992.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 5. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: The Game.

Released October 26, 1991.

Directed by Corey Allen.

Written by Brannon Braga, Susan Sackett, Fred Bronson, René Echevarria.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Ashley Judd, Katherine Moffat, Colm Meaney, Patti Yasutake, Wil Wheaton, Diane Hurley, Majel Barrett, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Joe Baumann, Michael Braveheart, Victoria Cameron, Cullen G. Chambers, Denise Deuschle, Goldie Gareza, Keith Gearhart, Melba Gonzalez, Eben Ham, Linda Harcharic, Grace Harrell, Melanie Hathorn, Gary Hunter, Randy James, Alex Landi, Mark Lentry, Christina Wegler Miles, Bill E. Rogers, Guy Vardaman.

On this day in movie history - The Hot Spot (movie & novel):

The Hot Spot

directed by Dennis Hopper,

written by Charles Williams and Nona Tyson,

based on the novel Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams,

was released in the United States on October 26, 1990.
Music by Jack Nitzsche.

Cast:

Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler, Jerry Hardin, Barry Corbin, Leon Rippy, Jack Nance, Virgil Frye, John Hawker, Margaret Bowman, Debra Cole, Karen Culley, Cody Haynes, George Haynes, James N. Harrell, Edith Mills, Shannon Quinlan, Roosevelt Williams, Kirk Hunter, Mark Lawyer, Lynn Speier.

Recommended reading:

Hell Hath No Fury

By Charles Williams.

Filmed as The Hot Spot (1990), directed by Dennis Hopper.

Paperback.

First published 1953.

Published by Vintage.

ISBN 13: 9780679733294

ISBN 10: 0679733299

ASIN: 0679733299

Description:

A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony.

Madox wasn't all bad.  He was just half-bad.  But trap a man like Madox in a dead-end job in a stultifying small town, introduce him to a femme fatale like the Harshaw woman, and give him a shot at a fast fifteen thousand dollars--in a bank just begging to be knocked over--and his better nature doesn't stand a chance.

Merciless in its suspense, flawless in its grasp of the ways in which ordinary people hurtle over the edge, The Hot Spot is a superb example of fifties roman noir.

On this day in music history - Sirius, by Clannad (1987):

Sirius

Album by Clannad,

released October 26, 1987.

Track list:

In Search Of A Heart; Second Nature; Turning Tide; Skellig; Stepping Stone; White Fool; Something To Believe In; Live And Learn; Many Roads; Sirius.

On this day in movie history - The Terminator (1984):

The Terminator

directed by James Cameron,

written by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd,

was released in the United States on October 26, 1984.
Music by Brad Fiedel.

Cast:

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Rick Rossovich, Bess Motta, Earl Boen, Dick Miller, Shawn Schepps, Bruce M. Kerner, Franco Columbu, Bill Paxton, Brad Rearden, Brian Thompson, William Wisher, Ken Fritz, Tom Oberhaus, Ed Dogans, Ed Dogans, Joe Farago, Hettie Lynne Hurtes, Tony Mirelez, Philip Gordon, Anthony Trujillo, Stan Yale, Al Kahn, Leslie Morris, Hugh Farrington, Harriet Medin, Loree Frazier, James Ralston, Norman Friedman, Barbara Powers, Wayne Stone, David Michels, John E. Bristol, Webster Williams, Patrick Pinney, Bill W. Richmond, Chino ‘Fats’ Williams, Greg Robbins, Marianne Muellerleile, John Durban, Robin Antin, Marian Green, J. Randolph Harrison, David Kristin, Darrell Mapson, Bob Ritchie, John Stuart West.

Born on this day – Ted Demme:

Ted Demme

Director

Producer

Actor

October 26, 1963 – January 13, 2002

Born on this day – Pascale Ogier:

Pascale Ogier

Actress

October 26, 1958 – October 25, 1984