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Events on the 26th of September in history

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26 Sep 2046 Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
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26 Sep 0715 Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
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26 Sep 1087 William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
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26 Sep 1212 Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
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26 Sep 1345 Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
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26 Sep 1371 Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey
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26 Sep 1371 Serbian–Turkish wars: The forces of the Ottoman sultan Murad I's lieutenant Lala Şahin Pasha and the Serbian army under the command of Vukašin Mrnjavčević and Jovan Uglješa clash at the Battle of Maritsa.
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26 Sep 1396 Sultan Bajezid I beheads 100s of crusaders
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26 Sep 1404 Brussels Brabants / Limburgse audit-office established
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26 Sep 1493 Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera
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26 Sep 1580 Francis Drake with Spanish treasure returns to England
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26 Sep 1580 Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
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26 Sep 1629 Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark
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26 Sep 1655 Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware
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26 Sep 1680 Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal
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26 Sep 1687 Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians
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26 Sep 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.
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26 Sep 1687 The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
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26 Sep 1687 Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
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26 Sep 1733 France, Spain and Sardinia sign anti-German covenant
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26 Sep 1772 New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine
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26 Sep 1777 American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia.
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26 Sep 1777 British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution
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26 Sep 1786 England and France sign trade agreement
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26 Sep 1786 Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays' Rebellion.
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26 Sep 1789 4th Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood of Mass takes office
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26 Sep 1789 Jefferson appointed 1st Secretary of State; John Jay 1st chief justice;
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26 Sep 1789 Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster and Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney General
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26 Sep 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.
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26 Sep 1789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl
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26 Sep 1792 Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
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26 Sep 1810 A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
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26 Sep 1815 Russia, Prussia and Austria sign Holy Alliance
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26 Sep 1824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
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26 Sep 1835 The opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" is produced (Naples)
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26 Sep 1861 2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club
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26 Sep 1872 The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
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26 Sep 1874 1st Grand International Rifle match held
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26 Sep 1876 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux)
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26 Sep 1884 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
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26 Sep 1887 Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
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26 Sep 1890 US stops minting $1 and $3 gold coin and 3 cent piece
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26 Sep 1892 Diamond Match Co patented book matches
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26 Sep 1892 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
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26 Sep 1895 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
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26 Sep 1896 John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance (Plainfield, NJ)
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26 Sep 1901 Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal
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26 Sep 1901 Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana)
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26 Sep 1904 Charles Kleins "Music Master, " premieres in New York City
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26 Sep 1904 Earl Grey is named British Governor-General of Canada
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26 Sep 1906 Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game
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26 Sep 1907 New Zealand declares independence from the UK
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26 Sep 1907 New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
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26 Sep 1907 New Zealand becomes a dominion
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26 Sep 1908 the Norwegian football club SK Brann was founded.
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26 Sep 1908 Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader
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26 Sep 1910 Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and exiled.
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26 Sep 1914 Germans arrest A Max, Mayor of Brussels
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26 Sep 1914 The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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26 Sep 1914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
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26 Sep 1916 Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions
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26 Sep 1917 British assault on Menin-street, France
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26 Sep 1917 World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
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26 Sep 1918 Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WWI
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26 Sep 1918 World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
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26 Sep 1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany began during WW I
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26 Sep 1919 US President Wilson hit by a heart attack
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26 Sep 1921 Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 and 58 to beat Indians 8-7
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26 Sep 1923 Stresemann Government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied
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26 Sep 1923 Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations.
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26 Sep 1925 8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields Country Club - Matteson, Illinois
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26 Sep 1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
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26 Sep 1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
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26 Sep 1927 St. James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St, New York City
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26 Sep 1929 John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria
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26 Sep 1931 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld
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26 Sep 1933 As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don’t shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
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26 Sep 1933 Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger
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26 Sep 1934 Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
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26 Sep 1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched
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26 Sep 1938 Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
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26 Sep 1939 German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed)
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26 Sep 1940 Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed
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26 Sep 1940 Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
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26 Sep 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".
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26 Sep 1944 British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)
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26 Sep 1944 Soviet forces occupy Estonia
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26 Sep 1944 World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
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26 Sep 1944 World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
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26 Sep 1945 All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
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26 Sep 1946 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993
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26 Sep 1947 Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series
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26 Sep 1948 Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
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26 Sep 1950 Australia wins Davis Cup tennis tournament
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26 Sep 1950 Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year
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26 Sep 1950 United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
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26 Sep 1950 Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
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26 Sep 1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
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26 Sep 1950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
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26 Sep 1951 Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
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26 Sep 1952 Yanks clinch pennant #19
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26 Sep 1953 Billy Hunter is last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game
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26 Sep 1953 KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS / NBC) begins broadcasting
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26 Sep 1953 Polish government fires / imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski
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26 Sep 1953 US and Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in Spain)
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26 Sep 1954 Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die
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26 Sep 1954 KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
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26 Sep 1954 KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins broadcasting
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26 Sep 1954 Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open
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26 Sep 1954 Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600
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26 Sep 1954 WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Sep 1954 WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Sep 1954 Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd and Mickey Mantle plays shortstop
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26 Sep 1954 Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
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26 Sep 1954 Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay Japan, killing over 1,600
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26 Sep 1955 New York Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
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26 Sep 1957 "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 734 performances
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26 Sep 1957 Musical "West Side Story, " opens on Broadway
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26 Sep 1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh / Semipalitinsk USSR
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26 Sep 1957 Dag Hammarskj
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26 Sep 1957 Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
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26 Sep 1958 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup
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26 Sep 1959 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
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26 Sep 1959 San Francisco Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0
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26 Sep 1959 Vera, Japan hit by a typhoon; about 5,000 die
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26 Sep 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.
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26 Sep 1960 Ted Williams last at bat is his 521st HR (off Jack Fisher)
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26 Sep 1960 In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
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26 Sep 1960 Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
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26 Sep 1960 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
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26 Sep 1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
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26 Sep 1961 "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
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26 Sep 1961 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
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26 Sep 1962 LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
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26 Sep 1962 TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS
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26 Sep 1962 1st to steal 100 bases in a season (Maury Wills goes on to 104)
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26 Sep 1962 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
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26 Sep 1963 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
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26 Sep 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways bus to Mexico
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26 Sep 1964 Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
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26 Sep 1965 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
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26 Sep 1965 Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1
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26 Sep 1965 Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire
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26 Sep 1966 "Staten Island, " 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
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26 Sep 1968 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV
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26 Sep 1968 Marcelo Caetano elected Premier of Portugal
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26 Sep 1968 Theatre censorship ends in Britain
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26 Sep 1968 Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS
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26 Sep 1968 St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA
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26 Sep 1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
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26 Sep 1969 Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia
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26 Sep 1969 Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
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26 Sep 1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
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26 Sep 1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
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26 Sep 1970 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km2).
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26 Sep 1971 Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season
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26 Sep 1971 Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
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26 Sep 1971 WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Sep 1971 The Freetown Christiania was founded.
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26 Sep 1972 Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
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26 Sep 1972 American Museum of Immigration dedicated
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26 Sep 1973 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
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26 Sep 1973 Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
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26 Sep 1973 Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors
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26 Sep 1975 Phillies and New York Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
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26 Sep 1976 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf
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26 Sep 1976 Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
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26 Sep 1977 Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27
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26 Sep 1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to New York
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26 Sep 1978 New York District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
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26 Sep 1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
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26 Sep 1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
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26 Sep 1980 Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed
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26 Sep 1980 Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
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26 Sep 1980 At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people died and 211 were injured.
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26 Sep 1980 Cuban govt closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
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26 Sep 1980 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
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26 Sep 1981 Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
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26 Sep 1981 Houston Astro Nolan Ryan 5th no-hitter beats LA Dodgers, 5-0
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26 Sep 1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks New York Giant record 56 yard field goal
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26 Sep 1983 Lebanon Premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
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26 Sep 1983 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
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26 Sep 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident, military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
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26 Sep 1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
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26 Sep 1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
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26 Sep 1983 St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0
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26 Sep 1984 Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit
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26 Sep 1984 Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
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26 Sep 1984 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
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26 Sep 1984 The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
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26 Sep 1984 5,251 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
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26 Sep 1984 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
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26 Sep 1985 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
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26 Sep 1986 Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
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26 Sep 1986 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
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26 Sep 1986 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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26 Sep 1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
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26 Sep 1987 Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
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26 Sep 1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new Prime Minister
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26 Sep 1988 Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
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26 Sep 1988 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
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26 Sep 1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched
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26 Sep 1989 Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
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26 Sep 1989 MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes
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26 Sep 1989 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and US chemical weapons
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26 Sep 1990 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating
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26 Sep 1991 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
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26 Sep 1992 1st time a positional player pitches for New York Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
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26 Sep 1992 Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die
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26 Sep 1992 Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle
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26 Sep 1993 30th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England
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26 Sep 1993 Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning
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26 Sep 1993 Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4
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26 Sep 1993 Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
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26 Sep 1994 Estonia government of Laar flees
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26 Sep 1994 Switzerland bans racist propaganda
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26 Sep 1995 "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr
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26 Sep 1996 Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
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26 Sep 1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 56th HR of 1997
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26 Sep 1997 A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
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26 Sep 1997 An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
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26 Sep 2000 Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
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26 Sep 2000 The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
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26 Sep 2002 The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
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26 Sep 2008 Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
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26 Sep 2009 Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
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26 Sep 2014 Ayotzinapa mass kidnapping
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