September 26
September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining.
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46 BC -
Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor
Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the
battle of Pharsalus.
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715 -
Ragenfrid defeats
Theudoald at the
Battle of Compiègne*
1580 - Sir
Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
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1687 - The
Parthenon in
Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from
Venetian forces led by
Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
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1777 -
British troops occupy
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the
American Revolution.
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1783 -
Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
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1789 -
Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first
United States Secretary of State,
John Jay is appointed the first
Chief Justice of the United States,
Samuel Osgood is appointed the first
United States Postmaster General, and
Edmund Randolph is appointed the first
United States Attorney General.
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1810 - A new
Act of Succession is adopted by the
Riksdag of the Estates and
Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the
Swedish throne.
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1907 -
New Zealand and
Newfoundland each becomes a
dominion of the
British Empire.
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1914 - The US
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the
Federal Trade Commission Act.
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1918 -
World War I:
Battle of Meuse.
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1934 - Steamship
RMS Queen Mary is launched.
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1944 -
World War II:
Operation Market Garden fails.
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1950 -
United Nations troops recapture
Seoul from the
North Koreans.
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1952 -
George Santayana dies.
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1954 - Japanese rail ferry
Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the
Tsugaru Strait,
Japan killing 1,172.
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1957 -
Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on
Broadway *
1960 - In
Chicago, Illinois, the first
televised debate takes place between presidential candidates
Richard M. Nixon and
John F. Kennedy.
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1961 -
Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
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1962 -
Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed
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1969 - The
Chicago Seven trial begins.
* 1969 -
The Beatles album
Abbey Road is released in the
UK.
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1969 -
The Brady Bunch debuts on
ABC-TV and would run for five years.
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1970 - The
Laguna Fire starts in
San Diego County,
California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
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1973 -
Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the
Atlantic in record-breaking time.
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1981 -
Baseball:
Nolan Ryan sets a
Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
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1983 -
Soviet military officer
Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
* 1983 -
Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the
Americas Cup.
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1984 -
United Kingdom agrees handover of
Hong Kong.
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1988 -
Ben Johnson is stripped of his
gold medal in the
100 m sprint at the
Seoul Olympics for
failing a drug test.
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1997 - A
Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan,
Indonesia, airport, killing 234
* 1997 - An
earthquake strikes the Italian regions of
Umbria and the
Marche, causing part of the
Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
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2000 -
Anti-globalization protests in
Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the
IMF and
World Bank summits.
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2002 - The overcrowded
Senegalese ferry
MV Joola capsizes off the coast of
Gambia killing more than 1,000.
* 2002 - Thirty people are killed in a gun attack at a temple in
Gandhinagar,
India*
1406 -
Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d.
1430)
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1711 -
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d.
1779)
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1750 -
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d.
1810)
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1758 -
Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of
Buenos Aires.
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1774 -
Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d.
1847)
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1791 -
Théodore Géricault, French painter (d.
1824)
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1865 -
Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, British pilot
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1869 -
Komitas, Armenian composer (d.
1935)
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1870 - King
Christian X of Denmark (d.
1947)
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1871 -
Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d.
1934)
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1873 -
Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d.
1949)
* 1873 -
Wacław Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d.
1940)
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1874 -
Lewis Hine, American photographer and social activist (d.
1940)
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1875 -
Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (d.
1959)
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1876 -
Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (d.
1957)
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1877 -
Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d.
1963)
* 1877 -
Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d.
1962)
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1886 -
Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1977)
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1887 -
Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (d.
1967)
* 1887 -
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (d.
1979)
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1888 -
J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d.
1964)
* 1888 -
T. S. Eliot, American-born writer and editor,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1965)
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1889 -
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d.
1976)
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1891 -
Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (d.
1968)
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1895 -
George Raft, American actor (d.
1980)
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1897 -
Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d.
1917)
* 1897 -
Pope Paul VI (d.
1978)
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1898 -
George Gershwin, American composer (d.
1937)
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1907 -
Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d.
1983)
* 1907 -
Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d.
1992)
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1909 -
Bill France, Sr., American founder of NASCAR (d.
1992)
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1914 -
Jack LaLanne, American fitness advocate
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1923 -
Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
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1925 -
Marty Robbins, American singer (d.
1982)
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1926 -
Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
* 1926 -
Julie London, American singer and actress (d.
2000)
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1930 -
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d.
1966)
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1932 -
Richard Herd, American actor
* 1932 -
Dr. Manmohan Singh,
Prime Minister of India* 1932 -
Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident
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1933 -
Donna Douglas, American actress
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1936 -
Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
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1941 -
Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
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1942 -
Kent McCord, American actor
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1943 -
Ian Chappell, Australian test cricket player and broadcaster
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1944 -
Anne Robinson, British television host
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1945 -
Bryan Ferry, British singer
* 1945 -
Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
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1946 -
Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d.
2005)
* 1946 -
Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
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1947 -
Lynn Anderson, American singer
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1948 -
Olivia Newton-John, British-born Australian singer and actress
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1949 -
Clodoaldo, Brazilian football player
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1951 -
Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
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1954 -
Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager and television host
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1956 -
Linda Hamilton, American actress
* 1956 -
Steve Butler, American racecar driver
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1959 -
Rich Gedman, American baseball player
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1961 -
Will Self, British author
* 1961 -
Cindy Herron, American singer (
En Vogue)
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1962 -
Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
* 1962 -
Peter Foster, Australian con-man
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1963 -
Lysette Anthony, British actress
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1964 -
Nicki French, British singer
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1966 -
Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and television hostess
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1967 -
Shannon Hoon, American singer (
Blind Melon) (d.
1995)
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1968 -
James Caviezel, American actor
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1969 -
Paul Warhurst, English football player
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1972 -
Ras Kass, American rapper
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1973 -
Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
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1974 -
Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player
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1975 -
Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer (
Garmarna and
Triakel)
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1976 -
Michael Ballack, German footballer
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1977 -
Kaylynn, porn star
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1981 -
Christina Milian, American actress and singer
* 1981 -
Serena Williams, American tennis player
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1983 -
Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
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1986 -
Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
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1987 -
Rosie Munter, Swedish singer and model (
Play)
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1989 -
Troy J. Rose, American jazz singer
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1417 -
Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b.
1360)
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1468 -
Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b.
1388)
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1620 -
Taichang Emperor of China (b.
1582)
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1626 -
Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b.
1554)
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1763 -
John Byron, English poet (b.
1692)
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1764 -
Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b.
1767)
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1802 - Baron
Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and military officer (b.
1754)
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1820 -
Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b.
1734)
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1868 -
August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b.
1790)
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1877 -
Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b.
1809)
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1904 -
John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b.
1848)
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1937 -
Bessie Smith, American singer (b.
1894)
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1945 -
Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b.
1881)
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1947 -
Hugh Lofting, British writer (b.
1886)
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1951 -
Hans Cloos, German geologist (b.
1885)
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1952 -
George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b.
1863)
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1965 -
James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b.
1898)
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1972 -
Charles Correll, American radio actor (b.
1890)
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1973 -
Ralph Earnhardt, Race car driver (b.
1923)
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1976 -
Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1887)
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1978 -
Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1886)
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1984 -
John Facenda, American broadcaster and sports announcer (b.
1913)
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1990 -
Alberto Moravia, Italian author.
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1998 -
Betty Carter, American singer (b.
1930)
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2000 -
Richard Mulligan, American actor (b.
1932)
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2003 -
Robert Palmer, British singer (b.
1949)
* 2003 -
Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b.
1963)
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2004 -
Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b.
1969)
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Calendar of Saints -
Sts. Cosmas and Damian*Also see
September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
Discordianism - Bureflux
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European Day of Languages*
French Republican Calendar -
Cheval (Horse) Day, fifth day in the
Month of Vendémiaire*
BBC: On This DaySeptember 25 -
September 27 -
August 26 -
October 26 - more
historical anniversaries
