26th
September, on this day
46 BC Julius
Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus
Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle
of Pharsalus
715 Ragenfrid
defeats Theudoald
at the Battle
of Compiègne
1212
Golden Bull of Sicily certified hereditary royal title in Bohemia
for Premyslid
dynasty
1580 Sir Francis
Drake circumnavigates the globe.
1687 The Parthenon
in Athens is severely damaged when a mortar bomb, fired by the Venetian
Army besieging the Turks holding the Acropolis, sets off the Turkish
supplies of gunpowder
1687 The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William
of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious
Revolution.
1777 British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution
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.
1792 Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien
Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1810 A new Act
of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag
of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the
Swedish throne.
1824 Kapiolani
defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives
1861 The first British
Open Golf Championship begins at Prestwick, Ayrshire
1872 The first Shriners
Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
1879 The world's first railway dining car is introduced in Britain
on the line between London and Leeds
1887
Emile Berliner, a German immigrant living in Washington DC, patents
his invention of the world's first gramaphone
1907 A Royal Proclamation changes the status of New Zealand from a
British colony to the Dominion of New Zealand also Newfoundland becomes
a Dominion
1918 Meuse-Argonne
offensive against Germany began during WW I
1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano
Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
1925 British seaside resort of Blackpool first switches on its now
famous illuminations
1934 Ocean liner RMS
Queen Mary is launched
1938 Concerned about the prospect of war with Germany (which turns
out to be a year away) British civilians are issued with gas masks
1944 Operation
Market Garden fails.
1944 On the central front of the Gothic
Line Brazilian troops controlled the Serchio valley region after
ten days of fighting
1950 A forest fire in British Columbia causes a blue moon in England
1950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
1954 Japanese rail ferry Toya
Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing
1,172.
1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1955 Frozen Bird's Eye fish fingers first go on sale in Britain
1957 Dag
Hammarskjöld re-elected secretary-general
of the UN
1957 First production of 'West
Side Story' - Leonard Bernstein's musical based on Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet - goes on stage at the Winter Garden in New York
1960 In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential
candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel
Castro). Castro also announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
1961 American folk singer Bob
Dylan makes his professional debut at Gerdie's Folk City in Greenwich
Village, New York
1962 TV comedy series "The
Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS
1962 Yemen
Arab Republic proclaimed
1968 Hawaii
Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS
1969 Beatles release "Abbey
Road" album
1970 The Laguna
Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres
(710 km²).
1973 Concorde
flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
1977 Sir
Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London
to NY
1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
1980 Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
1980 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
1983 21 IRA men escape from the Maze
Prison in Ulster
1983 Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz
T-10
1983 Soviet military officer Stanislav
Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
1983 Racing yacht 'Australia
II' , owned by Alan
Bond, beats the American boat 'Liberty' in the deciding race off
Newport, Rhode Island, to deprive the United States of the America's
Cup, - a trophy the Americans never lost in the 132 year history of
the event
1984 Britain and China initial agreement return Hong
Kong to China in 1997
1984 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1986 Bobby (Patrick
Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife
Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
1988 Canadian sprinter Ben
Johnson flies home in disgrace from the Seoul Olympics in South
Korea -stripped of his 100 metres gold medal after failing a drugs
test
1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new
PM
1991 2 year experimental Biosphere
2 in Oracle Arizona begins
1997 Queen Elizabeth II and the British Government announce that the
Royal Yacht 'Britannia'
will neither be refitted or replaced because of the high cost
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.
2000 M/S
Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV
Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2007 Shinzo
Abe formally ends his term as Prime Minister of Japan.
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Birthdates
which occurred on 26th September:
1729 Moses Mendelssohn
philosopher/critic/Bible translator
1774 John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman
1820 Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)
1876 Edith Abbott dean U of Chic Social Sciences
1888 T.S. Eliot St Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948)
1889 Martin Heidegger Germany, Existentialist (Being & Time)
1891 Charles Munch Strasbourg Alsatian conductor (French Legion D'Honeur)
1895 Fay Holden Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films)
1897 Pope Paul VI 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
1898 George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin] Bkln NY, composer (Rhapsody
in Blue)
19-- Lorraine Lewis rocker (Femme Fatale)
19-- Rachel Jacobs Ririe Idaho, actress (It's Not Easy)
19-- Richard Herd Brighton Mass, actor (TJ Hooker, V)
19-- Todd Chase rocker (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
1901 Donald Cook Portland Ore, actor (Too Young To Go Steady)
1902 Albert Anastasia head of Murder Inc
1907 Ralph Michael London England, actor (Quest, Doctor in the House)
1914 Jack LaLanne exercise mogul
1919 Barbara Britton Long Beach, Calif, actress (Young & Willing)
1925 Bobby Shantz baseball player (1952 AL MVP)
1925 Marty Robbins Glendale Az, singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone)
1926 Julie London Santa Rosa Calif, actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency)
1927 Patrick O'Neal Ocala Fla, actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat)
1930 Fritz Wunderlich Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58)
1930 Philip Bosco Jersey City, actor (Trading Places)
1932 Clifton C Williams Jr Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut
1932 Joyce Jameson Chicago Ill, comedienne (Spike Jones Show)
1933 Donna Douglas [Dot Smith], Pride La, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1942 Kent McCord LA Calif, actor (Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12)
1945 Brian Ferry England, rocker (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1946 Mary Beth Hurt Iowa, actress (Garp, Change of Seasons)
1947 Graham Faulkner London, actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon)
1947 Lynn Anderson ND, country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose
Garden)
1947 Richard Roth US, 400m swim medley (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 Olivia Newton-John Cambridge England, singer (I Honestly Love
You, Physical)
1948 Vladimir Remek 1st Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28)
1952 James Keane Buffalo NY, actor (Willis Bell-Paper Chase)
1956 Linda Hamilton Salisbury Md, actress (Catherine-Beauty &
the Beast)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson Cal, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 Tracey Thorn rocker (Everything But the Girls)
1963 Lysette Anthony London, actress (Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch)
1964 Ty Miller Granada Hills Calif, actor (The Kid-The Young Riders)
1967 Martha Nix Orange County Calif, actress (Serena-Waltons)
1972 Shann Stockman [Slim], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
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Deaths which occurred
on September 26th:
1820 Daniel Boone frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85
1904 Lafcadio Hearn multinational author, dies
1937 Bessie Smith singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash
1959 PM Solomon Bandaranaike of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) assassinated
1964 Calvin Thomas actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at
79
1972 Charles Correll actor (Calvin and the Colonel), dies at 82
1973 Anna Magnani actress, dies at 64
1990 Alberto Moravia Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
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