Notable Historical Events on September 26th
September 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
46 |
Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus. |
BC AD | |
715 |
Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne. |
1212 |
Golden Bull of Sicily certified hereditary royal title in Bohemia for Přemyslid dynasty. |
1371 |
Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey |
1396 |
Sultan Bajezid I beheads 100s of crusaders |
1404 |
Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established |
1580 |
Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind |
1629 |
Sweden & Poland signs Peace of Altmark |
1655 |
Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware |
1680 |
Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal |
1687 |
Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks, the Parthenon is subsequently damaged in the war. |
1687 |
The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution. |
1733 |
France, Spain & Sardinia sign anti-German covenant |
1771 |
Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel" premieres in Paris |
1772 |
New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine |
1783 |
Fayette County, Pennsylvania created |
1786 |
Britain & France sign trade agreement |
1789 |
4th US Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood of Mass takes office |
1789 |
Thomas Jefferson appointed 1st US Sec of State; John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice; |
1789 |
Edmund J Randolph becomes 1st US 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. |
1815 |
Russia, Prussia & Austria sign Holy Alliance |
1824 |
Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives |
1831 |
Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator" premieres in NYC |
1835 |
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" premieres in Naples |
1861 |
2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club |
1872 |
The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City. |
1874 |
1st Grand International Rifle match held |
1876 |
1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux) |
1884 |
Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed |
1887 |
Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone |
1890 |
US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 cent piece |
1892 |
1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ) |
1895 |
Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea |
1898 |
Victor Herbert/Harry Smith's musical premieres in NYC |
1901 |
Boer General Botha fails to capture Fort Itala in Natal |
1901 |
Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana) |
1904 |
Charles Kleins "Music Master" premieres in NYC |
1904 |
Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada |
1904 |
GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband" premieres in NYC |
1906 |
Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game |
1907 |
New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire. |
1908 |
Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader |
1914 |
Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce |
1914 |
Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels |
1916 |
Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions |
1917 |
British assault on Menin-street, France |
1918 |
Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I |
1918 |
World War I: Battle of Meuse. |
1919 |
US President Wilson hit by a heart attack |
1921 |
Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7 |
1923 |
Stresemann government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied |
1925 |
8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields CC Matteson Ill |
1925 |
Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead |
1926 |
JB Fagan's "And So to Bed" premieres in London |
1926 |
Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant |
1927 |
St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St NYC |
1929 |
John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria |
1933 |
Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White" premieres in NYC |
1934 |
British liner Queen Mary is launched |
1938 |
Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land |
1939 |
German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed) |
1940 |
Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed |
1940 |
Japanese troops attack French Indo-China |
1941 |
Nazis slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev |
1944 |
British & Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem) |
1944 |
Soviet forces occupy Estonia |
1945 |
All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid |
1946 |
1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993 |
1947 |
Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series |
1948 |
Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914 |
1950 |
Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England |
1950 |
Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year |
1950 |
UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul |
1951 |
Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris |
1952 |
Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2 |
1953 |
Billy Hunter is last St Louis Browns player to homer in a game |
1953 |
KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski |
1953 |
US & Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in Spain) |
1954 |
Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die |
1954 |
KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open |
1954 |
Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600 |
1954 |
WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Phila |
1954 |
Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop |
1955 |
NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929 |
1957 |
"West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 734 perfs |
1957 |
Bernstein & Sondheim's musical "West Side Story" premieres in NYC |
1957 |
Dag Hammarskjoeld re-elected secretary-general of UN |
1957 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1958 |
Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (Britain) in 18th America's Cup |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1959 |
Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty |
1959 |
SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0 |
1959 |
Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing |
1960 |
1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago) |
1960 |
Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro) |
1961 |
"From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances |
1961 |
Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record |
1962 |
LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104) |
1962 |
TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS |
1962 |
Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day) |
1963 |
1st edition of NYC Review of Books |
1963 |
Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways bus to Mexico |
1964 |
Braves (25) & Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn |
1964 |
"Gilligan's Island", starring Bob Denver as Gilligan, debuts on CBS |
1965 |
11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
1965 |
Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1 |
1965 |
Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of the British Empire |
1966 |
"Staten Island" 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay |
1967 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Violin concert premieres in Moscow |
1968 |
1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV |
1968 |
Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal |
1968 |
St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout ends with 1.12 ERA |
1968 |
Theatre censorship ends in Britain |
1969 |
Beatles release "Abbey Road" album |
1969 |
Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia |
1969 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1970 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
1970 |
The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²). |
1970 |
A groups of Protestant youths attack the Catholic Unity Flats as rioting continues in the Protestant Shankill Road area |
1971 |
Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season |
1971 |
Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
1971 |
WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
MP David Bleakley resigns in protest over the introduction of Internment and the lack of any new political initiatives by the Northern Ireland government |
1972 |
American Museum of Immigration dedicated |
1972 |
Norway rejects membership in European Common Market |
1973 |
Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2½ years) |
1973 |
Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors |
1973 |
Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington DC to Paris) in record-breaking time (3h33m). |
1974 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1975 |
Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM |
1976 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1976 |
Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against Cleveland |
1976 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf |
1976 |
Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title |
1977 |
Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27 |
1977 |
Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY |
1978 |
RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service |
1978 |
NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms |
1979 |
1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million |
1979 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980 |
Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed |
1980 |
Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla" |
1980 |
Soyuz 38 returns to Earth |
1981 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982 |
"Doll's Life" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 5 perfs |
1982 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1982 |
"Knight Rider", starring David Hasselhoff, debuts on NBC |
1983 |
Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal |
1983 |
Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner) |
1983 |
Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10 |
1983 |
Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns |
1983 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
1983 |
St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0 |
1983 |
Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging missile attack from the US an error. |
1984 |
5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium |
1984 |
Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit |
1984 |
Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
1984 |
Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University |
1984 |
Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd |
1984 |
President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa |
1985 |
Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya |
1986 |
Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1986 |
RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell) |
1986 |
William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
1986 |
Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season) |
1987 |
Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games |
1988 |
Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test |
1988 |
NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark |
1988 |
Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM |
1988 |
US space shuttle STS-26 launched |
1989 |
Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia |
1989 |
MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes |
1989 |
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet & US chemical weapons |
1990 |
Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating |
1991 |
2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins |
1992 |
Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3 |
1992 |
Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die |
1992 |
Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
1992 |
Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle |
1992 |
1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates |
1993 |
30th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England |
1993 |
Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning |
1993 |
Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4 |
1993 |
Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
1993 |
Seattle's Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club |
1994 |
Estonia government of Laar flees |
1994 |
Switzerland bans racist propaganda |
1995 |
"George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr |
1995 |
Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov) |
1995 |
Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1 |
1996 |
SF Giant Bobby Bonds is 2nd player to hit 40 HRs & steal 40 bases |
1996 |
Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands |
1997 |
Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 56th HR of 1997 |
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) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits. |
2000 |
M/S Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers. |
2002 |
The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000. |
2006 |
Martin Scorsese's "The Departed", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg, premieres in New York City |
2007 |
Shinzo Abe formally ends his term as Prime Minister of Japan. |
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. |
2012 |
Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus |
2012 |
Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures |
2012 |
Japanese automakers suspend operations in China |
2017 |
Jennifer Lopez donates $1M to Puerto Rico relief |
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