September 26: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 1962 - Premiere of The Beverly Hillbillies on CBS.
• 1969 - The Chicago Seven trial begins.
• 1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
• 1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• 1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
• 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.
• 2001 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 2001 - Star Trek: Enterprise begins airing in the US.
• 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
• 2002 - Five people are shot dead in a botched bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, United States.

• 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)
• 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)
• 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 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
• 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, Australian singer
• 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
• 1961 - Will Self, British author
• 1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
• 1963 - Lysette Anthony, British actress
• 1967 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
• 1968 - James Caviezel, American actor
• 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
• 1981 - Christina Milian, American actress and singer
• 1981 - Serena Williams, American tennis player

• 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 Byrom, 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)
• 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)

• Calendar of Saints - Sts. Cosmas and Damian

Also see September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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