Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 26
- 1687 - The Parthenon in Athens was partially destroyed during an armed conflict between Venetian and Ottoman forces.
- 1907 - New Zealand became a dominion within the British Empire.
- 1957 - West Side Story, a musical written by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, and produced and directed by Jerome Robbins, made its debut on Broadway.
- 1983 - Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Union averted a worldwide nuclear war.
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