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September 26
September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining.
Events
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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 Morozini 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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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.
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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 becomes a dominion
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1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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1918 - Battle of Meuse
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1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched
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1944 - Operation Market Garden fails
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1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
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1957 - Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on Broadway
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1960 - In Chicago 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
- 1962 - Premiere of "The Beverly Hillbillies" on CBS
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1969 - Chicago Seven trial begins
- 1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK
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1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
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1981 - Nolan Ryan sets a Major League Baseball record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
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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
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1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic gold medal in the 100 meter dash for failing a drug test
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1991 - Biosphere 2 opens
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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.
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2001 - Star Trek: Enterprise beings airing in the US.
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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.
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2003 - Nupedia, an earlier form of Wikipedia, was shut down.
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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
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1774 - John Chapman ("Johnny Appleseed"), environmentalist (d. 1847)
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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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1874 - Lewis Hine, photographer, social activist (d. 1940)
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1875 - Edmund Gwenn, actor (d. 1959)
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1876 - Edith Abbott, social worker, educator, and author (d. 1957)
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1888:
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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, actor (d. 1980)
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1897 - Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
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1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
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1914 - Jack LaLanne, fitness advocate
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1925 - Marty Robbins, country music singer (d. 1982)
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1926 - John Coltrane, American musician (d. 1967)
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1930 - Fritz Wunderlich, tenor (d. 1966)
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1932 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
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1933 - Donna Douglas television star, The Beverly Hillbillies
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1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
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1944 - Anne Robinson, British television host
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1945 - Bryan Ferry, singer
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1946 - Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
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1947 - Lynn Anderson country singer
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1948 - Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer
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1954 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager, television
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Deaths
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1802 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery 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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1904 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman, statesman (b. 1848)
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1937 - Bessie Smith, American blues 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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1952 - George Santayana, philosopher (b. 1863)
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1998 - Betty Carter, jazz singer
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2003:
Holidays and observations
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