October 26th, 1945 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: No. 10 Sqn. RAAF (Sunderland) is disbanded. Plans to transfer the squadron to the Pacific were shelved after VJ day.
GERMANY: Robert Ley, leader of the German Labour Front, commits suicide in Nürnberg gaol.
U.S.S.R.: Engineer, ship-builder, mathematician and mechanic, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor Aleksey Krylov (B 15.08.1863) died.
CANADA: Destroyer HMCS Kootenay paid off.
U.S.A.: Destroyer USS Richard B Anderson commissioned.