September 26
September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining.
Events
1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe
1687 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morozini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution .
1789 - Thomas Jefferson appointed first United States Secretary of State ; John Jay appointed first Chief Justice of the United States ; Samuel Osgood appointed first United States Postmaster General ; Edmund Randolph appointed first United States Attorney General .
1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1907 - New Zealand becomes a dominion
1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act .
1918 - Battle of Meuse
1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched
1944 - Operation Market Garden fails
1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans .
1957 - Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on Broadway
1960 - In Chicago the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy .
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut
1962 - Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed
1962 - Premiere of "The Beverly Hillbillies " on CBS
1969 - Chicago Seven trial begins
1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK
1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1981 - Nolan Ryan sets a Major League Baseball record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war (because of time-zone differences, the date was Sept. 26 in the Soviet Union, and Sept. 25 in the West)
1983 - Australia II , first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup
1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic gold medal in the 100 meter dash for failing a drug test
1991 - Biosphere 2 opens
1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia , airport, killing 234; an earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche , causing part of the basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
2001 - Star Trek: Enterprise beings airing in the US.
2002 - The Joola , an overloaded Senegalese ferry capsizes in the ocean off the coast of The Gambia killing more than 950; 30 killed in gun attack at a temple in Gandhinagar , India ; 5 people shot dead in a botched bank robbery in Nebraska.
2003 - Nupedia , an earlier form of Wikipedia, was shut down.
2004 - The Seattle Seahawks shutout the San Francisco 49ers 34-0. This marks the first time in a league record 27 years and 456 games that the San Francisco 49ers suffered a shutout. The last shutout occurred in 1977 when Atlanta won 7-0. Several of the players in this game were either not even born yet or very young children when the last shutout occurred.
Births
1774 - John Chapman ("Johnny Appleseed "), environmentalist (d. 1847 )
1869 - Komitas , Armenian composer (d. 1935 )
1870 - King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947 )
1871 - Winsor McCay , American cartoonist (d. 1934 )
1874 - Lewis Hine , photographer, social activist (d. 1940 )
1875 - Edmund Gwenn , actor (d. 1959 )
1876 - Edith Abbott , social worker, educator, and author (d. 1957 )
1888 :
1889 - Martin Heidegger , German philosopher (d. 1976 )
1891 - Charles Munch , French conductor and violinist (d. 1968 )
1895 - George Raft , actor (d. 1980 )
1897 - Pope Paul VI (d. 1978 )
1898 - George Gershwin , American composer (d. 1937 )
1914 - Jack LaLanne , fitness advocate
1925 - Marty Robbins , country music singer (d. 1982 )
1926 - John Coltrane , American musician (d. 1967 )
1930 - Fritz Wunderlich , tenor (d. 1966 )
1932 - Dr. Manmohan Singh , Prime Minister of India
1933 - Donna Douglas television star, The Beverly Hillbillies
1936 - Winnie Mandela , South African anti-apartheid activist
1944 - Anne Robinson , British television host
1945 - Bryan Ferry , singer
1946 - Christine Todd Whitman , American politician
1947 - Lynn Anderson country singer
1948 - Olivia Newton-John , Australian singer
1954 - Kevin Kennedy , baseball manager, television
host
Deaths
1802 - Baron Jurij Vega , Slovene mathematician , physicist and artillery officer (b. 1754 )
1820 - Daniel Boone , American frontiersman (b. 1734 )
1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius , German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790 )
1904 - John F. Stairs , Canadian businessman, statesman (b. 1848 )
1937 - Bessie Smith , American blues singer (b. 1894 )
1945 - Béla Bartók , Hungarian composer (b. 1881 )
1947 - Hugh Lofting , British writer (b. 1886 )
1952 - George Santayana , philosopher (b. 1863 )
1998 - Betty Carter , jazz singer
2003 :
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