September 26

September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining.

Events

   * 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 Morozini
     who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
   * 1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the
     American Revolution.
   * 1789 - Thomas Jefferson appointed first United States Secretary of
     State; John Jay appointed first Chief Justice of the United States;
     Samuel Osgood appointed first United States Postmaster General; Edmund
     Randolph appointed first United States Attorney General.
   * 1907 - New Zealand becomes a dominion
   * 1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the
     Federal Trade Commission Act.
   * 1918 - Battle of Meuse
   * 1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched
   * 1944 - Operation Market Garden fails
   * 1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
   * 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 - Chicago Seven trial begins
   * 1981 - Nolan Ryan sets a Major League Baseball record by throwing his
     fifth no-hitter.
   * 1983 - Australia II, first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup
   * 1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic gold medal in the 100
     meter dash for failing a drug test
   * 1991 - Biosphere 2 opens

Births

   * 1729 - Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher
   * 1774 - John Chapman ("Johnny Appleseed"), environmentalist
   * 1870 - King Christian X of Denmark (+ 1947)
   * 1871 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (+ 1934)
   * 1874 - Lewis Hine, photographer, social actvist (+ 1940)
   * 1875 - Edmund Gwenn, actor (+ 1959)
   * 1888 - T. S. Eliot, American poet (+ 1965)
   * 1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (+ 1976)
   * 1897 - Pope Paul VI (+ 1978)
   * 1895 - George Raft, acor (+ 1980)
   * 1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (+ 1937) born in Brooklyn,
     New York
   * 1914 - Jack LaLanne, fitness advocate
   * 1925 - Marty Robbins, country music singer
   * 1926 - John Coltrane, American musician (+ 1967)
   * 1926 - Julie London, singer, actress
   * 1933 - Donna Douglas, actress
   * 1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
   * 1955 - Carlene Carter, country music singer
   * 1956 - Linda Hamilton, American actress
   * 1967 - Shannon Hoon, singer ("Blind Melon") (+ 1995)
   * 1948 - Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer
   * 1951 - Dave Casper, Football Hall of Famerr
   * 1956 - Clip Payne, musician (P Funk)
   * 1956 - Linda Hamilton, actress
   * 1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
   * 1963 - Lysette Anthony, actress
   * 1964 - Les Claypool, American musician
   * 1968 - James Caviezel, actor
   * 1981 - Serena Williams, American tennis player

Deaths

   * 1802 - Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician
   * 1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman
   * 1868 - August Ferdinand Mšbius, German mathematician and astronomer
   * 1904 - John F. Stairs, businessman, statesman
   * 1937 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer
   * 1945 - BŽla Bart—k, Hungarian composer
   * 1947 - Hugh Lofting, British writer
   * 1952 - Philosopher George Santayana in Rome at age 88.
   * 1991 - Miles Davis, American jazz musician
   * 1998 - Betty Carter, jazz singer