On this day in History - Sep. 26

1342 - John I, ruler of Poland, died.

1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
1626- Wakisaka Yasuharu dies (b. 1554). Japanese warrior
1687 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.

1729 - Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher, critic, Bible translator, was born.
1763 - John Byrom dies (b. 1692). English poet.
1764 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro dies (b. 1767). Spanish scholar.
1774 - Johnny Appleseed was born (d. 1847). American environmentalist.
1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.

1783 - Jane Taylor, children's writer best known as the author of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
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.
1791 - Théodore Géricault was born (d. 1824). French writer.

1795 - Nascimento de Bernardo de Sá Nogueira (1795-1876), em Santarém. Oficial de cavalaria durante as Invasões Francesas, perderá um braço no combate do Alto da Bandeira, durante o Cerco do Porto, no decurso da Guerra Civil de 1832-1834. Será nomeado sucessivamente visconde, conde e marquês de Sá da Bandeira, alcunha por que era conhecido desde o seu ferimento.
1802 - Baron Jurij Vega dies (b. 1754). Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and military officer.
1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1820 - Daniel Boone dies (b. 1734). American frontiersman.

1829 - Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.

1849 - Ivan Pavlov was born. Russian physiologist, famous for his Nobel Prize-winning behavioral studies on conditioned reflexes in dogs in the 1890s.

1854 - Percy Alexander MacMahon was born (d. 25 Dec 1929). English mathematician. Author of Combinatory analysis (2 volumes: 1915, 1916), An introduction to combinatory analysis (1920), New Mathematical Pastimes (1921).
1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius dies (b. 1790). German mathematician and astronomer.
1869 - Komitas was born (d. 1935). Armenian composer.
1870 - King Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm was born (d. 1947) . King of Denmark (1912-1947)
1871 - Winsor McCay was born (d. 1934). American cartoonist.
1873 - Aleksey Shchusev was born (d. 1949). Russian architect.
1874 - Lewis Hine was born (d. 1940). American photographer and social activist.
1877 - Alfred Cortot was born (d. 1962). Swiss pianist.
1875 - Edmund Gwenn was born (d. 1959). Welsh actor.
1876 - Edith Abbott was born (d. 1957). American social worker, educator, and author.
1877 - Hermann Grassmann dies (b. 1809). German mathematician and physicist.
1887 - Antonio Moreno was born (d. 1967). Spanish-born actor.

1887 - José Montealegre Fernández was born. President of Costa Rica (1859-1860 e 1860-1863)
1888 - J. Frank Dobie was born (d. 1964). American folklorist and newspaper columnist.
1888 - T. S. Eliot was born (d. 1965). American poet and editor. 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. (The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Poems)

1889 - Martin Heidegger was born (d. 1976). German philosopher.
1891 - Charles Munch was born (d. 1968). French conductor and violinist.
1895 - George Raft was born (d. 1980). American actor.
1897 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini) was born (d. 1978). 262nd Roman Pope.
1897 - Arthur Rhys Davids was born (d. 1917). English pilot.
1898 - George Gershwin was born in Brookly NY (d. 11 Jul 1937). American composer (Rhapsody in Blue). He wrote the music for many popular songs for musicals, with his brother Ira writing the lyrics. His greatest work work was the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), on a libretto by DuBose Heyward.

1901 - Leon Czolgosz [1873 – 31 Oct 1901], who on 06 September 1901 shot President William McKinley [29 Jan 1843 – 14 Sep 1901], is sentenced to death.
1904 - John F. Stairs dies (b. 1848). Canadian businessman and statesman.
1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland both become a dominion.
1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1914 - Jack LaLanne was born. American fitness advocate.

1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
1925 - Marty Robbins was born (d. 1982). American singer.

1925 - Cândido de Figueiredo dies. Portuguese lexicographer.
1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba was born. Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 - Fritz Wunderlich was born (d. 1966). German tenor.
1932 - Dr. Manmohan Singh was born. Prime Minister of India
1932 - Richard Herd was born. American actor
1933 - Donna Douglas was born. American actress
1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.

1935 - Federico Páez Chiriboga assume a presidência do Equador
1936 - Winnie Mandela was born. South African anti-apartheid activist
1937 - Bessie Smith dies (b. 1894). American singer.
1944 - Anne Robinson was born. British television host
1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1945 - Béla Bartók dies (b. 1881). Hungarian composer.
1945 - Bryan Ferry was born. British singer.

1945 - Gal Costa was born. Brazilian singer.
1946- Christine Todd Whitman was born. American politician
1947 - Lynn Anderson was born. American singer
1947 - Hugh Lofting dies (b. 1886). British writer.
1948 - Olivia Newton-John was born. Australian singer
1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
1951 - Stuart Tosh was born. Scottish musician
1952 - George Santayana dies (b. 1863). Spanish philosopher.
1954 - Kevin Kennedy was born. Baseball manager and television host
1956 - Linda Hamilton was born. American actress
1957 - Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on Broadway
1960 - In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

1960 - Longest speech in UN history (4h29m, by Fidel Castro)
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
1962 - Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day)
1962 - Premiere of The Beverly Hillbillies on CBS.
1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson was born. American actress.

1966 - Delfim Pinto dos Santos dies in Cascais (b. 1907). Portuguese philosopher.

1967 - Shannon Hoon was born (d. 1995). American singer (Blind Melon).
1968 - James Caviezel was born. American actor.

1968 - Portugal : O presidente da República anuncia oficialmente a nomeação de Marcelo Caetano para o cargo de Presidente do Conselho de Ministros, em substituição de António de Oliveira Salazar
1969 - The Chicago Seven trial begins.
1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1973 - Chris Small was born. Scottish snooker player
1975 - Emma Härdelin was born. Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
1976 - Michael Ballack was born. German footballer

1976 - Paul Turán dies in Budapest (b. 28 Aug 1910). Jewish mathematician.
1978 - Manne Siegbahn dies (b. 1886). Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1981 - Christina Milian was born. American actress and singer
1981 - Serena Williams was born. American tennis player.
1981 - Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.

1983 - Ricardo Quaresma was born in Lisbon. Portuguese footaball player (FC Porto).
1983 - Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.

1984 - Hong Kong to revert to China on 01 July 1997 : After two years of negotiation, Great Britain formally agreed to honor the expiration of its 99-year lease on the island of Hong Kong / O governo britânico aceitou o regresso de Hong-Kong à soberania Chinesa em 1997.
1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.

1989 - Um pequeno avião, que transporta três deputados portugueses, cai ao descolar da Jamba, ficando gravemente ferido João Soares, filho do então presidente da República Portuguesa.

1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America abolishes the "X" rating, replacing it with "NC-17," a rating designating a film with content inappropriate for viewers under age 17.

1990 - Alberto Pincherle ("Alberto Moravia") dies at 82. Italian writer (Woman in Red)
1991 - Biosphere 2 opens.

1993 - O primeiro satélite português, PoSat I, foi lançado para o espaço.
1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234; an earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
1998 - Betty Carter dies (b. 1930). American singer.

2000 - Baden Powell dies. Brazilian musician.
2001 - Star Trek: Enterprise begins airing in the US.
2002 - Thirty people are killed in a gun attack at a temple in Gandhinagar, India
2002 - Five people are shot dead in a botched bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, United States.
2003 - Robert Palmer dies (b. 1949). British singer.
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