September 26

September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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 is certified as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
• 1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
• 1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are 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.
• 1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
• 1783 – The first battle of Shays' Rebellion begins.
• 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.
• 1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
• 1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
• 1908 – Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
• 1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
• 1923 – Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations.
• 1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: August Frank, a higher official of the SS concentration camp administration department, issues a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be "evacuated".
• 1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
• 1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
• 1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
• 1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
• 1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
• 1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
• 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
• 1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km²).
• 1971 – The Freetown Christiania was founded.
• 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
• 1983 – Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending the longest winning streak in sporting history.
• 1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
• 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) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
• 2001 – Polish Wikipedia was started.
• 2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of The Gambia killing more than 1,000.
• 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
• 2009 – Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.

Births

• 1329 – Queen Anna of Bavaria of the Romans (d. 1353)
• 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)
• 1758 – Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician (d. 1820)
• 1767 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1835)
• 1774 – Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1845)
• 1791 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
• 1792 – William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842)
• 1820 – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar (d. 1891)
• 1840 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
• 1843 – Joseph Furphy, Australian novelist (as "Tom Collins"; d. 1912)
• 1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
• 1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)
• 1867 – Winsor McCay, American animator (d. 1934)
• 1869 – Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
• 1870 – King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
• 1872 – Max Ehrmann, American poet (Desiderata) (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Wacław Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940)
• 1873 – Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
• 1874 – Lewis Hine, American photographer and activist (d. 1940)
• 1875 – Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (d. 1959)
• 1876 – Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian poet and Muslim nationalist (d. 1952)
• 1876 – Edith Abbott, American social worker and author (d. 1957)
• 1877 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
• 1877 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
• 1881 – Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan figure (d. 1966)
• 1884 – J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. 1951)
• 1886 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1977)
• 1887 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958)
• 1887 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (d. 1967)
• 1887 – Sir Barnes Wallis, English scientist and inventor (d. 1979)
• 1888 – J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)
• 1888 – T. S. Eliot, American-born British writer and poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
• 1889 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
• 1891 – Charles Münch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Robert Staughton Lynd, American historian (d. 1970)
• 1893 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929)
• 1895 – George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1895 – Jürgen Stroop, German Nazi SS officer (d. 1952)
• 1897 – Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
• 1897 – Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)
• 1898 – George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
• 1905 – Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1907 – Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
• 1907 – Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Bill France, Sr., American car racing executive (d. 1992)
• 1911 – Al Helfer, American radio sportscaster (d. 1975)
• 1913 – Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (d. 1976)
• 1917 – Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher (d. 1993)
• 1918 – John Zacherle, American television host
• 1919 – Barbara Britton, American actress (d. 1980)
• 1919 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
• 1922 – Takis Miliadis, Greek actor (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, French-born pretender to the Russian throne
• 1923 – Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
• 1925 – Norm Dussault, American ice hockey player
• 1925 – Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982)
• 1926 – Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian philologist
• 1927 – Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (d. 1990)
• 1927 – Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1927 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian football player and manager (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor
• 1930 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
• 1930 – Joe Brown, English mountaineer
• 1931 – Kenneth Parnell, American convicted sex offender (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Richard Herd, American actor
• 1932 – Dr. Manmohan Singh, Indian politician
• 1932 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident
• 1933 – Donna Douglas, American actress
• 1935 – Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
• 1937 – Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (d. 2003)
• 1937 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer
• 1938 – Lars Jacob Krogh, Norwegian journalist (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
• 1941 – Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
• 1941 – Martine Beswick, English actress and model
• 1942 – Kent McCord, American actor
• 1943 – Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and broadcaster
• 1943 – Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver
• 1944 – Anne Robinson, English television host
• 1945 – Louise Beaudoin, French-Canadian politician
• 1945 – Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
• 1945 – Bryan Ferry, English singer (Roxy Music)
• 1946 – Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
• 1946 – Togo Igawa, Japanese actor
• 1946 – Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
• 1946 – Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
• 1946 – Louise Simonson, American comic book writer and editor
• 1947 – Lynn Anderson, American country music singer
• 1947 – Philippe Lavil, French singer
• 1948 – Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer and actress
• 1949 – Clodoaldo, Brazilian football player
• 1949 – Jane Smiley, American novelist
• 1949 – Marie Tifo, Canadian actress
• 1949 – Minette Walters, English novelist
• 1951 – Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
• 1952 – Predrag Miletić, Serbian actor
• 1953 – Joe Benigno, American radio personality
• 1953 – Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer
• 1954 – Kevin Kennedy, American baseball manager
• 1954 – Craig Chaquico, American guitarist
• 1955 – Carlene Carter, American singer
• 1956 – Steve Butler, American racing driver
• 1956 – Linda Hamilton, American actress
• 1958 – Richard B. Weldon, Jr., American politician
• 1958 – Robert Kagan, American historian
• 1958 – Darby Crash, American singer (The Germs) (d. 1980)
• 1959 – Rich Gedman, American baseball player
• 1961 – Charlotte Fich, Danish actress
• 1961 – Cindy Herron, American singer (En Vogue)
• 1961 – Will Self, English author
• 1962 – Mark Haddon, English author
• 1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
• 1962 – Peter Foster, Australian con artist
• 1962 – Lawrence Leritz, Broadway dancer, choreographer, producer
• 1962 – Al Pitrelli, American guitarist (Megadeth)
• 1963 – Lysette Anthony, English actress
• 1963 – Joe Nemechek, American NASCAR driver
• 1964 – Nicki French, English singer
• 1964 – Dave Martinez, American baseball player
• 1964 – John Tempesta, American drummer (White Zombie, Helmet, Testament)
• 1965 – Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress
• 1966 – Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and television hostess
• 1966 – Christos Dantis, Greek composer and singer
• 1966 – Craig Heyward, American football player (d. 2006)
• 1967 – Bruno Akrapović, Bosnian footballer
• 1967 – Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
• 1967 – Kara Saun, American designer
• 1968 – James Caviezel, American actor
• 1968 – Ben Shenkman, American actor
• 1969 – Anthony Kavanagh, French-Canadian comedian, actor and singer
• 1969 – Andy Petterson, Australian footballer
• 1969 – Holger Stanislawski, German footballer
• 1969 – Paul Warhurst, English footballer
• 1970 – Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress
• 1972 – Ras Kass, American rapper
• 1972 – Melanie Paxson, American actress
• 1972 – Shawn Stockman, American singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1973 – Marty Casey, American singer (Lovehammers)
• 1973 – Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
• 1973 – Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper
• 1974 – Boris Cepeda, German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat
• 1974 – Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer
• 1974 – Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player
• 1975 – Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer (Garmarna, Triakel)
• 1975 – Jake Paltrow, American film director
• 1976 – Michael Ballack, German footballer
• 1976 – Tyler Denk, American model and reality show contestant
• 1976 – Sami Vanska, Finnish bassist (Nightwish)
• 1977 – André Hunger, German artist and designer
• 1977 – Kaylynn, American pornographic actress
• 1978 – Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
• 1979 – Jon Harley, English footballer
• 1979 – Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1979 – Fuifui Moimoi, New Zealand rugby league footballer
• 1979 – Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast
• 1979 – Jacob Tierney, Canadian actor
• 1980 – Jane Darling, Czech porn model/actress
• 1980 – Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
• 1980 – Brooks Orpik, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 – Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1981 – Aras Baskauskas, American reality show contestant
• 1981 – Christina Milian, American actress and singer
• 1981 – Collien Ulmen-Fernandes, German TV host and actress
• 1981 – Serena Williams, American tennis player
• 1982 – Rob Burrow, English rugby player
• 1982 – Simon Picone, Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer
• 1982 – Jon Richardson, British comedian
• 1983 – Samantha Hammel, American record producer and actress
• 1983 – D'Qwell Jackson, American football player
• 1983 – Archimede Morleo, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
• 1984 – Thore Schölermann, German actor
• 1985 – Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
• 1985 – Talulah Riley, English actress
• 1986 – Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
• 1987 – Rosie Munter, Swedish singer (Play)
• 1988 – Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
• 1988 – Marina Kuroki, Japanese actress
• 1988 – Mark Simpson, English clarinetist and composer
• 1989 – Nesma Mahgoub, Egyptian singer
• 1989 – Emma Rigby, English actress
• 2000 – Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan

Deaths

• 1417 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
• 1468 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
• 1501 – Džore Držić, Croatian writer (b. 1461)
• 1620 – Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
• 1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
• 1716 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
• 1763 – John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
• 1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)
• 1800 – William Billings, American choral composer (b. 1746)
• 1802 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician 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)
• 1902 – Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
• 1904 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek writer (b. 1850)
• 1904 – John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
• 1935 – Iván Persa, Hungarian Slovene writer and catholic priest (b. 1861)
• 1937 – Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)
• 1945 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
• 1947 – Hugh Lofting, English writer (b. 1886)
• 1951 – Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
• 1952 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)
• 1953 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
• 1954 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
• 1957 – Arthur Powell Davies, American religious minister (b. 1902)
• 1959 – Sir Leslie Morshead, Australian soldier (b. 1889)
• 1965 – James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)
• 1968 – Lipman Heilprin, Israeli physician and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., French-Canadian politician (b. 1915)
• 1968 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (b. 1918)
• 1972 – Charles Correll, American radio actor (b. 1890)
• 1973 – Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1923)
• 1973 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
• 1978 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
• 1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1983 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (b. 1907)
• 1984 – John Facenda, American sports announcer (b. 1913)
• 1984 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
• 1987 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer, made the first ascent of Cho Oyu in 1954 (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Ramang, Indonesian former footballer (b. 1928)
• 1989 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer and composer (b. 1920)
• 1990 – Alberto Moravia, Italian author (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Billy Vaughn, American bandleader (b. 1919)
• 1998 – Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)

*  1999   – Bernadette O'Farrell, Irish actress (b. 1924)

• 2000 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2000 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
• 2003 – Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)
• 2005 – Helen Cresswell, British author (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Bill Wirtz, American sports team owner (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Marc Moulin, Belgian musician and journalist (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2011 – Bob Cassilly, American Artist and Founder of the St. Louis City Museum (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Days:
  • Cosmas and Damian
  • John of Meda
  • Nilus the Younger
  • September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the National Flag (Ecuador)
• Dominion Day (New Zealand)
• European Day of Languages (European Union)
• Revolution Day (Yemen)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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