September 26

September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining.

Events

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.
715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne
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 Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
1783 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
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.
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 and Newfoundland each becomes a dominion of the British Empire.
1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
1952 - George Santayana dies.
1954 - Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
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.
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
1962 - Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed
1969 - The Chicago Seven trial begins.
1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
1969 - The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.
1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1981 - Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
1983 - Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
1984 - United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong.
1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.
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.
2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry 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

Births

1406 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
1711 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
1750 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810)
1758 - Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
1774 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1847)
1791 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
1865 - Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, British pilot
1869 - Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
1870 - King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
1871 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)
1873 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
1873 - Wacław Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940)
1874 - Lewis Hine, American photographer and social activist (d. 1940)
1875 - Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (d. 1959)
1876 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (d. 1957)
1877 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
1877 - Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
1886 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
1887 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (d. 1967)
1887 - Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
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)
1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
1891 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
1895 - George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
1897 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)
1897 - Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1907 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
1909 - Bill France, Sr., American founder of NASCAR (d. 1992)
1914 - Jack LaLanne, American fitness advocate
1923 - Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
1925 - Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982)
1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 - Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
1930 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
1932 - Richard Herd, American actor
1932 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
1932 - Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident
1933 - Donna Douglas, American actress
1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
1941 - Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
1942 - Kent McCord, American actor
1943 - Ian Chappell, Australian test cricket player and broadcaster
1944 - Anne Robinson, British television host
1945 - Bryan Ferry, British singer
1945 - Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
1946 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
1946 - Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
1947 - Lynn Anderson, American singer
1948 - Olivia Newton-John, British-born Australian singer and actress
1949 - Clodoaldo, Brazilian football player
1951 - Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
1954 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager and television host
1956 - Linda Hamilton, American actress
1956 - Steve Butler, American racecar driver
1959 - Rich Gedman, American baseball player
1961 - Will Self, British author
1961 - Cindy Herron, American singer (En Vogue)
1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
1962 - Peter Foster, Australian con-man
1963 - Lysette Anthony, British actress
1964 - Nicki French, British singer
1967 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
1968 - James Caviezel, American actor
1969 - Paul Warhurst, English football player
1972 - Ras Kass, American rapper
1973 - Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
1974 - Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player
1975 - Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
1976 - Michael Ballack, German footballer
1977 - Kaylynn, porn star
1981 - Christina Milian, American actress and singer
1981 - Serena Williams, American tennis player
1983 - Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
1987 - Rosie Munter, Swedish singer and model (Play)

Deaths

1417 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
1468 - Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
1620 - Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
1626 - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
1763 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1764 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)
1802 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and military officer (b. 1754)
1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
1877 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
1904 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
1937 - Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)
1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
1947 - Hugh Lofting, British writer (b. 1886)
1951 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
1952 - George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)
1965 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)
1972 - Charles Correll, American radio actor (b. 1890)
1973 - Ralph Earnhardt, Race car driver (b. 1923)
1976 - Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1978 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1984 - John Facenda, American broadcaster and sports announcer (b. 1913)
1998 - Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
2000 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 - Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)
2003 - Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)

Holidays and observations

Calendar of Saints - Sts. Cosmas and Damian
Also see September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Discordianism - Bureflux
European Day of Languages
French Republican Calendar - Cheval (Horse) Day, fifth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

External links

BBC: On This Day

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