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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Events
\n*1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe\n*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.\n*1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.\n*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.\n*1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne. \n*1907 - New Zealand becomes a dominion\n*1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.\n*1918 - Battle of Meuse\n*1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched\n*1944 - Operation Market Garden fails\n*1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.\n*1957 - Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on Broadway \n*1960 - In Chicago, Illinois the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.\n*1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut\n*1962 - Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed\n*1962 - Premiere of "The Beverly Hillbillies" on CBS\n*1969 - Chicago Seven trial begins\n*1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK\n*1981 - Nolan Ryan sets a Major League Baseball record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.\n*1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war\n*1983 - Australia II, first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup\n*1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic gold medal in the 100 meter dash for failing a drug test\n*1991 - Biosphere 2 opens\n*1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234\n*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
Births
- 1729 - Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)\n*1774 - John Chapman ("Johnny Appleseed"), environmentalist (d. 1847)\n*1869 - Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)\n*1870 - King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)\n*1871 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)\n*1874 - Lewis Hine, photographer, social activist (d. 1940)\n*1875 - Edmund Gwenn, actor (d. 1959)\n*1888 - T. S. Eliot, American poet (d. 1965)\n*1888 - J. Frank Dobie, Texas folklorist and newspaper columnist.\n*1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)\n*1895 - George Raft, actor (d. 1980)\n*1897 - Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)\n*1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)\n*1914 - Jack LaLanne, fitness advocate\n*1925 - Marty Robbins, country music singer (d. 1982)\n*1926 - John Coltrane, American musician (d. 1967)\n*1926 - Julie London, singer, actress\n*1933 - Donna Douglas, actress\n*1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist\n*1945 - Bryan Ferry, singer\n*1948 - Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer\n*1951 - Dave Casper, Football Hall of Famer\n*1955 - Carlene Carter, country music singer\n*1956 - Clip Payne, musician (P Funk)\n*1956 - Linda Hamilton, American actress\n*1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress\n*1963 - Lysette Anthony, actress\n*1964 - Les Claypool, American musician\n*1967 - Shannon Hoon, singer ("Blind Melon") (d. 1995)\n*1968 - James Caviezel, actor (The Passion of the Christ)\n*1973 - Chris Small, Scottish snooker player\n*1981 - Serena Williams, American tennis player
Deaths
\n*1802 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (b. 1754)\n*1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)\n*1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)\n*1904 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman, statesman (b. 1848)\n*1937 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer (b. 1894)\n*1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)\n*1947 - Hugh Lofting, British writer (b. 1886)\n*1952 - George Santayana, philosopher (b. 1863)\n*1991 - Miles Davis, American jazz musician (b. 1926)\n*1998 - Betty Carter, jazz singer\n*2003 - Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)\n*2003 - Nawabzada Narullah Khan, Pakistani politician and democrat
Holidays and observations
\n*Bureflux (Discordianism)
