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What happened in history on this day: September 26?
On September 26 in ...
- 578 - General Tiberius is made co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 1580 - Captain Francis Drake returns to England, completing circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1651 - Birth of Francis Daniel Pastorius in Sommerhausen; German lawyer, teacher, founded Germantown, Pennsylvania.
- 1669 - Venice loses Crete to the Ottomans.
- 1687 - Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians.
- 1774 - Birth of John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman (dies 1847).
- 1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
- 1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed first US Secretary of State; John Jay is appointed first chief justice; Samuel Osgood is appointed first Postmaster; Edmund J Randolph is appointed first Attorney General.
- 1789 - US President George Washington appoints Sanuel Osgood as first Postmaster General of the US.
- 1820 - Birth of Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar; father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita).
- 1820 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at age 85.
- 1824 - Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives.
- 1876 - Birth of Edith Abbott; dean of University of Chicago Social Sciences.
- 1888 - Birth of T.S. Eliot in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land - Nobel Prize 1948).
- 1889 - Birth of Martin Heidegger in Germany; existentialist (Being and Time).
- 1890 - US stops minting $1 and $3 gold coins and 3-cent piece.
- 1890 - US Congress passes a law requiring coinage designs be used for a minimum of 25 years before they can be redesigned without special Congressional approval.
- 1891 - Birth of Charles Munch in Strasbourg, Alsace, France; conductor (French Legion D'Honeur).
- 1895 - Birth of Fay Holden in Birmingham, England; actress (Mother - Andy Hardy films).
- 1897 - Birth of Pope Paul VI; 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78).
- 1898 - Birth of George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin] in Brooklyn, New York, USA; composer (Rhapsody in Blue).
- 1901 - Birth of Donald Cook in Portland, Oregon, USA; actor (Too Young To Go Steady).
- 1907 - Birth of Ralph Michael in London, England; actor (Quest, Doctor in the House).
- 1907 - The Dominion of New Zealand is created.
- 1914 - Federal Trade Commission is formed to regulate interstate commerce.
- 1918 - Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany.
- 1919 - Birth of Barbara Britton in Long Beach, California, USA; actress (Young and Willing).
- 1925 - Birth of Bobby Shantz; baseball player (1952 American League Most Valuable Player).
- 1925 - Birth of Marty Robbins in Glendale, Arizona, USA; singer ("Devil Woman", "I Walk Alone").
- 1925 - Italian submarine Sebastiano Veniero lost off Sicily with 54 dead.
- 1926 - Birth of Julie London in Santa Rosa, California, USA; actress (Nurse McCall - Emergency).
- 1926 - Shortest double header, New York Yankees lose 6-1 in 72 minutes and lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Saint Louis Browns. New York Yankees had already clinched pennant.
- 1927 - Birth of Patrick O'Neal in Ocala, Florida, USA; actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat).
- 1930 - Birth of Fritz Wunderlich in Kusel, Germany; tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58).
- 1930 - Birth of Philip Bosco in Jersey City, Jersey, USA; actor (Trading Places).
- 1932 - Birth of Clifton C Williams Junior in Mobile, Alabama, USA; Major US Marine Corp/astronaut.
- 1932 - Birth of Joyce Jameson in Chicago, Illinois, USA; comedienne (Spike Jones Show).
- 1933 - Birth of Donna Douglas [Dot Smith] in Pride, Louisiana, USA; actress (Beverly Hillbillies).
- 1934 - British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched; 80,700 tons, 1018-foot hull, 2139 passengers. The launch ceremony is performed by Queen Mary.
- 1938 - The British Foreign Office issues a statement saying if Germany attacks Czechoslovakia, France would assist, and Great Britain and Russia would stand by France.
- 1938 - Adolf Hitler makes speech to the Nazi party in Berlin, saying that once the Czech/German problem is solved, there would be no more territorial problems for Germany. And once Czechs settle with minorities peacefully, he will have no more interest in the Czech state. Quote by Adolf Hitler, on the desire to annex part of Czechoslovakia: "It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is the claim from which I will not recede.".
- 1942 - Birth of Kent McCord in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Officer Jim Reed - Adam 12).
- 1945 - Birth of Brian Ferry in England; rocker (Roxy Music - "Let's Stick Together", "Avalon").
- 1946 - Birth of Mary Beth Hurt in Iowa, USA; actress (Garp, Change of Seasons).
- 1947 - Birth of Graham Faulkner in London, England; actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon).
- 1947 - Birth of Lynn Anderson in North Dakota, USA; country singer ("I Never Promised you a Rose Garden").
- 1947 - Birth of Richard Roth; American 400m swim medley (Olympic-gold-1964).
- 1947 - Happy Chandler announces Ford and Gillette to sponsor World Series.
- 1948 - Birth of Olivia Newton-John in Cambridge, England; singer ("I Honestly Love You", "Physical").
- 1948 - Birth of Vladimir Remek; first Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28).
- 1948 - Boston Braves win first National League championship since 1914.
- 1950 - Because of forest fire in British Columbia, blue moon appears in England.
- 1952 - Birth of James Keane in Buffalo, New York, USA; actor (Willis Bell - Paper Chase).
- 1952 - New York Yankees clinch pennant #19.
- 1954 - Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay, Japan, killing over 1,600.
- 1955 - New York Stock Exchange suffers worst stock prices decline since 1929.
- 1956 - Birth of Linda Hamilton in Salisbury, Maryland, USA; actress (Catherine - Beauty and the Beast).
- 1957 - Dag Hammarskjöld re-elected secretary-general of the United Nations.
- 1957 - Musical West Side Story opens on Broadway.
- 1958 - Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup.
- 1959 - San Francisco Giants' Sam Jones second no-hitter, beats Saint Louis Cardinals, 4-0.
- 1960 - First of four televised US Presidential debates take place: Richard Nixon and John Kennedy (Chicago, Illinois).
- 1960 - Longest speech in United Nations history (4 hours, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro).
- 1961 - NBC premieres The Dick Powell Theatre 60-minute anthology TV show.
- 1961 - New York Yankees' Roger Maris hits home run number 60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record.
- 1962 - Maury Will is first to steal 100 bases in a season (goes on to 104).
- 1962 - Birth of Melissa Sue Anderson in California, USA; actress (Little House on the Prairie).
- 1962 - Birth of Tracey Thorn; rocker (Everything But the Girls).
- 1962 - TV comedy series The Beverly Hillbillies premieres on CBS.
- 1962 - Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed.
- 1963 - Birth of Lysette Anthony in London, England; actress (Angelique - Dark Shadows, Switch).
- 1964 - Birth of Ty Miller in Granada Hills, California, USA; actor (The Kid - The Young Riders).
- 1964 - Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter - One Man's Family), dies at age 79.
- 1967 - Birth of Martha Nix in Orange County, California, USA; actress (Serena - The Waltons).
- 1968 - The CBS TV network airs the first Hawaii Five-O 60-minute crime drama TV show in the USA.
- 1968 - Saint Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA.
- 1969 - The Beatles release "Abbey Road" album.
- 1969 - CBS begins airing the Get Smart 30-minute TV show.
- 1969 - ABC-TV debuts The Brady Bunch TV show.
- 1972 - American Museum of Immigration dedicated.
- 1972 - Birth of Shann Stockman [Slim] in Philadelphia Pennsylvania; rapper (Boyz II Men).
- 1972 - Charles Correll, actor (Calvin and the Colonel), dies at age 82.
- 1973 - Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris, France, in record-breaking 3 hours 33 minutes.
- 1973 - Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors.
- 1975 - Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM.
- 1976 - Philadelphia Phillies clinch their first National League East Division title.
- 1976 - Death of Leopold Ruzicka in Zürich, Switzerland; professor of chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1939 for his research on ringed molecules and terpenes.
- 1977 - Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to New York.
- 1978 - Death of Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886).
- 1979 - 1984 summer Los Angeles Olympic coverage sold to ABC for US$225 million.
- 1980 - Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla".
- 1980 - Soyuz 38 returns to Earth.
- 1981 - Nolan Ryan sets a Major League Baseball record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
- 1981 - First flight of the Boeing 767 airliner.
- 1981 - Houston Astros' Nolan Ryan's fifth no-hitter, beats Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-0.
- 1981 - Disney's weekly TV show moves to CBS, making it the first prime-time series to have appeared on all three major networks. The show is renamed Walt Disney, airing on Saturdays from 8:00 to 9:00.
- 1982 - NBC TV airs the first episode of TV show Knight Rider, starring David Hasselhoff.
- 1983 - Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks New York Giants' record 56-yard field goal.
- 1983 - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (first non-US winner).
- 1983 - Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10.
- 1983 - Saint Louis Cardinals' pitcher Bob Forsch second no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0.
- 1984 - Birth of Keisha Buchanan; British singer (Sugababes).
- 1984 - The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
- 1984 - 5,251 turn out to see the Philadelphia Phillies play the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.
- 1984 - US President Ronald Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa.
- 1986 - Antonin Scalia becomes a US Supreme Court Justice.
- 1986 - Paramount releases the film Crocodile Dundee to theaters.
- 1986 - William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
- 1986 - The syndicated TV show Today's Business premieres. The early-morning show airs on 133 stations.
- 1986 - The ABC TV network debuts the Disney-produced Sidekicks show.
- 1987 - The first episode of US TV show Jake and the Fatman airs.
- 1988 - Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his Olympic 100m gold for failing drug test.
- 1988 - New York City's Rockefeller Center is declared a national landmark.
- 1988 - Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new Prime Minister.
- 1990 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at age 82 (born 1907).
- 1990 - Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating.
- 1991 - Two-year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona begins.
- 1991 - Death of Billy Vaughn at age 72 of cancer; singer/bandleader ("Melody of Love", "A Swingin' Safari", "Blue Hawaii", "Blue Velvet", "Chapel By The Sea", "Cimarron (Roll On)", "Hawaiian War Chant", "La Paloma", "Look For A Star", "Orange Blossom Special", "Sail Along Silvery Moon", "The Shifting Whispering Sands", "Wheels").
- 1992 - In Canada, three people share a CDN$18 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot.
- 1995 - The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, accused of Mafia connections, begins.
- 1996 - Death of Nicu Ceausescu, son of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu (born 1951).
- 1997 - An air crash in Indonesia kills 234 people (likely caused by smoke rising from numerous forest fires in the area).
- 1997 - In Central Italy, magnitude 5.7 and 6.4 earthquakes occurs. As a result of these two earthquakes, a total of eleven people killed, more than 100 injured and about 80,000 homes destroyed. Part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi collapses.
- 1997 - The ABC TV network begins airing the Teen Angel show.
- 1997 - The ABC TV network debuts the series You Wish.
- 1998 - The Adelaide Crows defeat the North Melbourne Kangaroos in the AFL Grand Final to become the first club to win back-to-back premierships since the VFL became the AFL in 1990.
- 1998 - Death of Betty Carter AKA Lillie Mae Jones at age 68 from pancreatic cancer; jazz singer (album "Look What I Got!" (1988 Grammy award)).
- 2000 - The Greek Express Samina ferry sinks off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.
- 2000 - Birth of Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II.
- 2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague, Czech Republic, (some 15,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
- 2003 - Death of Robert Palmer at age 54 of a heart attack; singer ("Addicted to Love" (Grammy award)).
- 2004 - Death of Marianna Komlos American professional wrestler and fitness model (born 1969).
- 2005 - Death of Jerry Juhl, American writer (born 1938).
- 2005 - Death of Shawntinice Polk, American basketball player (born 1983).
- 2005 - U.S. Army Reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on six of seven counts in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
- 2006 - Diet of Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Junichiro Koizumi.
- 2006 - Death of Tokyo Rose AKA Iva Toguri D'Aquino at age 90; made WWII Japanese propaganda broadcasts from Radio Tokyo (never convicted of treason).
- 2007 - In southern Vietnam the Can Tho Bridge, which is under construction, collapses, killing scores of workers.
- 2007 - Emperor Akihito formally swears in Yasuo Fukuda as the 91st Prime Minister of Japan.
- 2007 - First confirmed deaths resulting from the Myanmar military's crackdown on weeks long anti-government protests. Buddhist monks are arrested and Internet access is cut from the public.
- 2008 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announces it plans to build a space defense system and a new fleet of nuclear submarines by 2020.
- 2009 - Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, causing 246 deaths and nearly US$100 million in damage. More than 3,000 houses are either damaged or destroyed. Worst flooding in 40 years, 300,000 people are left homeless.
- 2010 - National elections in Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez's Socialist Party wins 98 seats in the National Assembly, with the opposition Democratic Unity bloc (of over 30 parties) taking 65.
- 2010 - British millionaire businessman owner of Segway, Jimi Heselden, is found dead at age 62 at the bottom of a cliff in a river near Leeds, England with one of the two-wheeled electric scooters near his body. Heselden was also chairman of Hesco Bastion.
- 2011 - In Everett, Washington, Boeing delivers the first 787 Dreamliner jet plane to customer All Nippon Airways.
- 2014 - The 2014 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, to be held in Cape Town from 13 to 15 October, is suspended after a boycott of Nobel Laureates to protest the third time refusal of a visa to the 14th Dalai Lama.
- 2019 - Death of Jacques Chirac at age 86; 84th Prime Minister and 22nd President of France (born 1932).
- 2021 - The 2021 German federal election is held, with the Social Democratic Party beating out the CDU/CSU coalition.
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