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- 0046 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
- 0715 Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compigne.
- 1212 Golden Bull of Sicily certified hereditary royal title in Bohemia for Pemyslid dynasty.
- 1580 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe
- 1687 Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
- 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.
- 1687 The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
- 1783 Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
- 1789 Jefferson appointed first Sec of State; John Jay first chief justice; Samuel Osgood first Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph first Attorney Genl
- 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) & lives
- 1835 The opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" is produced (Naples)
- 1890 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3. piece
- 1898 George Gershwin, composer born
- 1907 New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
- 1907 New Zealand becomes a dominion
- 1914 The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
- 1917 Compulsory military service went into effect in Canada.
- 1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany began during WW I
- 1925 Country singer Marty Robbins born
- 1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
- 1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched
- 1934 Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
- 1937 Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program featuring the announcer for its "Detective Stories" radio show, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.
- 1943 Operation Jaywick – an Australian SOA (Special Operations Australia) unit, operating from the fishing vessel Krait, mines Japanese ships in Singapore harbour The operation sinks 37,000 tons of enemy shipping
- 1947 Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series
- 1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
- 1950 Indonesia admitted to the United Nations.
- 1950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
- 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.
- 1954 Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay Japan, killing over 1,600
- 1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
- 1956 Linda Hamilton, actress (Beauty and the Beast, Terminator) born
- 1957 Dag Hammarskjld re-elected secretary-general of the UN
- 1957 Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
- 1957 West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins opens on Broadway.
- 1958 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup 0
- 1960 First of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
- 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)
- 1961 Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
- 1962 TV comedy series "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS
- 1962 Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.
- 1962 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
- 1966 "Staten Island," first icebreaker to enter SF bay
- 1966 The first Chevrolet Camaro appeared.
- 1968 Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS
- 1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
- 1969 The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
- 1969 The Chicago Seven trial begins.
- 1970 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km).
- 1971 Visitor posting - The famous Sally Plummer born Bath UK - United Kingdom
- 1972 American Museum of Immigration dedicated
- 1973 Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
- 1973 Steve Bernfeld born.
- 1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
- 1978 Railroad clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
- 1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
- 1980 Andrew Crawford is born
- 1980 Cuban govt closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
- 1980 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
- 1980 The Lonie Report in Victoria, Australia recommends rail line closures and freeway expansion.
- 1981 Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
- 1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
- 1983 Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
- 1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
- 1983 Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
- 1984 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
- 1984 Pres Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
- 1984 United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong.
- 1986 Antonin Scalia becomes a Supreme Court Justice
- 1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
- 1986 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
- 1988 Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.
- 1988 Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
- 1988 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
- 1988 Visitor posting - Ashley Tetreault was born!!
- 1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
- 1990 Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating
- 1991 Visitor posting - Tiffany Kate Wood (NZ) future famed composer borne - New Zealand
- 1991 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
- 1997 A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
- 1997 Visitor posting - The Famous Alana Lewis was Born in September 26th - Australia
- 2000 Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
- 2000 Express Samina, capsized after running aground near the isle of Paros. 82 people were killed.
- 2002 The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
- 2002 Thirty people are killed in a shooting by terrorists at a temple in Gandhinagar, India.
- 2009 Visitor posting - SEPT 26 2009 IN LYNBROOK NY CATHY AND JIMMIE START THEIR LIVES TOGETHER
- 2010 Twelve people were killed and 19 severely injured when a Polish tour bus crashed near Berlin, Germany
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