September 26

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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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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observations

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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 and Newfoundland both become 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.