On this day in History - Sep. 26

• 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
• 0715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
• 1181 - Saint Francis of Assisi was born (d. 1226). Italian founder of the Franciscan Order.
• 1342 - John I, ruler of Poland, died.
• 1406 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros was born (d. 1430). English soldier and politician.
• 1417 - Francesco Zabarella dies (b. 1360). Italian jurist.
• 1468 - Juan de Torquemada dies (b. 1388). Spanish Catholic cardinal.
• 1501 - Džore Držić dies (b. 1461). Croatian writer.
• 1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
• 1620 - Taichang Emperor of China dies (b. 1582).
• 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.
• 1711 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple was born (d. 1779). English politician.
• 1716 - Antoine Parent dies (b. 1666). French mathematician.
• 1750 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was born (d. 1810). British admiral.
• 1758 - Cosme Argerich was born. Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
• 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 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania created.
• 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.
• 1792 - Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
• 1795 - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo was born (d. 1876). Portughuese politician. / Nascimento de Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo (m. 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.
• 1815 - The Holy Alliance of Russia, Austria, and Prussia was formed, after the final defeat of Napoleon.
• 1820 - Daniel Boone dies (b. 1734). American frontiersman.
• 1829 - Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.
• 1840 - Louis-Olivier Taillon was born (d. 1923). French Canadian politician.
• 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).
• 1865 - Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford was born. British pilot
• 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.
• 1873 - Wacław Berent was born (d. 1940). Polish novelist and translator.
• 1874 - Lewis Hine was born (d. 1940). American photographer and social activist.
• 1875 - Edmund Gwenn was born (d. 1959). Welsh actor.
• 1876 - Edith Abbott was born (d. 1957). American social worker, educator, and author.
• 1877 - Ugo Cerletti was born (d. 1963). Italian neurologist.
• 1877 - Alfred Cortot was born (d. 1962). Swiss pianist.
• 1877 - Hermann Grassmann dies (b. 1809). German mathematician and physicist.
• 1881 - Hiram Wesley Evans was born (d. 1966). Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard.
• 1886 - Archibald Vivian Hill was born (d. 1977). English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1887 - Edwin Keppel Bennett was born (d. 1958). British writer.
• 1887 - Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was born (d. 1979). British scientist, engineer and inventor.
• 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.
• 1893 - Gladys Brockwell was born (d. 1929). American actress.
• 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.
• 1902 - Levi Strauss dies (b. 1829). American clothing manufacturer.
• 1904 - John F. Stairs dies (b. 1848). Canadian businessman and statesman.
• 1904 - Lafcadio Hearn dies (b. 1850). Greek writer.
• 1905 - Emilio Navarro was born. Puerto Rican Baseball Player
• 1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
• 1907 - Anthony Blunt was born (d. 1983). English art historian and Soviet spy.
• 1907 - Bep van Klaveren was born (d. 1992). Dutch boxer.
• 1909 - Bill France, Sr. was born. American founder of NASCAR
• 1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• 1914 - Jack LaLanne was born. American fitness advocate.
• 1917 - Réal Caouette was born (d. 1976). French Canadian politician, leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada
• 1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
• 1919 - Matilde Camus was born. Spanish poet and researcher
• 1922 - Nicholas Romanov was born. French-born pretender to the Russian throne
• 1923 - Dev Anand was born. Indian actor and film producer.
• 1925 - Marty Robbins was born (d. 1982). American singer.
• 1925 - Norm Dussault was born. American-born ice hockey player.
• 1925 - Cândido de Figueiredo dies. Portuguese lexicographer.
• 1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba was born. Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1926 - Julie London was born (d. 2000). American singer and actress.
• 1927 - Patrick O'Neal was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1927 - Robert Blackburn was born (d. 1990). Irish educationist.
• 1928 - Bob Van der Veken was born. Belgian actor
• 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.
• 1932 - Vladimir Voinovich was born. Russian writer and dissident.
• 1933 - Donna Douglas was born. American actress.
• 1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
• 1935 - Federico Páez Chiriboga becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1935 - Joe Sherlock was born (d. 2007). Irish Labour Party politician.
• 1936 - Luis Fernando Verissimo was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1936 - Winnie Mandela was born. South African anti-apartheid activist.
• 1937 - Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program featuring the announcer for its "Detective Stories" radio show, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.
• 1937 - Jerry Weintraub was born. American film producer.
• 1937 - Valentin Pavlov was born (d. 2003). Soviet Union politician.
• 1937 - Bessie Smith dies (b. 1894). American singer.
• 1941 - Salvatore Accardo was born. Italian violinist and conductor.
• 1942 - Kent McCord was born. American actor.
• 1943 - Ian Chappell was born. Australian test cricket player and broadcaster
• 1943 - Tim Schenken was born. Australian racing driver
• 1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
• 1944 - Anne Robinson was born. British television host
• 1945 - Béla Bartók dies (b. 1881). Hungarian composer.
• 1945 - Bryan Ferry was born. British singer.
• 1945 - Gal Costa was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1945 - Louise Beaudoin was born. Quebec politician
• 1946 - Andrea Dworkin was born (d. 2005). American feminist.
• 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.
• 1949 - Clodoaldo was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1949 - Jane Smiley was born. American novelist.
• 1949 - Minette Walters was born. British novelist.
• 1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
• 1950 - Indonesia admitted to the United Nations.
• 1951 - Stuart Tosh was born. Scottish musician.
• 1951 - Hans Cloos dies (b. 1885).German geologist.
• 1952 - Predrag Miletić was born. Serbian actor from Nis
• 1952 - George Santayana dies (b. 1863). Spanish philosopher.
• 1953 - Aivars Lembergs was born. Latvian politician.
• 1953 - Joe Benigno was born. American radio personality.
• 1953 - Xu Beihong dies (b. 1895). Chinese painter.
• 1954 - Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
• 1954 - Kevin Kennedy was born. Baseball manager and television host
• 1955 - Carlene Carter was born. American singer
• 1956 - Linda Hamilton was born. American actress.
• 1956 - Steve Butler was born. American racecar driver.
• 1957 - West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins opens on Broadway .
• 1958 - Richard B. Weldon, Jr. was born. American politician
• 1959 - Rich Gedman was born. American baseball player.
• 1960 - In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1960 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R. in the longest speech in UN history (4h 29m)
• 1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
• 1961 - Will Self was born. British author
• 1961 - Cindy Herron was born. American singer (En Vogue)
• 1962 - Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day)
• 1962 - Premiere of The Beverly Hillbillies on CBS.
• 1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Peter Foster was born. Australian con-man
• 1963 - Lysette Anthony was born. British actress
• 1964 - Nicki French was born. British singer.
• 1965 - Alexandra Lencastre was born. Portuguese actress
• 1965 - Cindy Herron was born. American singer (En Vogue)
• 1965 - James Fitzmaurice dies (b. 1898). Irish aviation pioneer.
• 1966 - The first Chevrolet Camaro appeared.
• 1966 - Christos Dantis was born. Greek composer and singer.
• 1966 - Jillian Barberie was born. Canadian actress and television hostess
• 1966 - Delfim Pinto dos Santos dies in Cascais (b. 1907). Portuguese thinker, philosopher.
• 1967 - Shannon Hoon was born (d. 1995). American singer (Blind Melon).
• 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
• 1968 - James Caviezel was born. American actor.
• 1968 - Daniel Johnson, Sr dies (b. 1915). Politician, premier of Québec.
• 1969 - The Chicago Seven trial begins.
• 1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
• 1969 - The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.
• 1969 - Paul Warhurst was born. English football player.
• 1969 - Anthony Kavanagh was born. Canadian comedian, actor and singer
• 1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
• 1970 - Sheri Moon Zombie was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Melanie Paxson was born. American actress
• 1972 - Ras Kass was born. American rapper.
• 1972 - Shawn Stockman was born. American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1972 - Charles Correll dies (b. 1890). American radio actor.
• 1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• 1973 - Chris Small was born. Scottish snooker player.
• 1973 - Marty Casey was born. American singer (Lovehammers)
• 1973 - Olga Vasdeki was born. Greek triple jumper.
• 1973 - Ralph Earnhardt dies (b. 1923). American race car driver.
• 1973 - Anna Magnani dies (b. 1908). Italian actress.
• 1974 - Martin Müürsepp was born. Estonian basketball player.
• 1975 - Emma Härdelin was born. Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
• 1975 - Jake Paltrow was born. Director and the brother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow
• 1976 - Michael Ballack was born. German football player
• 1976 - Lavoslav Ružička dies (b. 1887). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1976 - Paul Turán dies in Budapest (b. 28 Aug 1910). Jewish mathematician.
• 1977 - Kaylynn was born. American porn star
• 1978 - Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot was born. Boston Marathon record holder
• 1978 - Manne Siegbahn dies (b. 1886). Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1979 - Fuifui Moimoi was born. New Zealand (Tongan) Rugby League player
• 1979 - Jon Harley was born. English footballer.
• 1979 - Jaycie Phelps was born. American gymnast.
• 1979 - Arthur Hunnicutt dies (b. 1910). American actor.
• 1980 - The Lonie Report in Victoria, Australia recommends rail line closures and freeway expansion.
• 1980 - Henrik and Daniel Sedin was born. Swedish professional ice hockey players.
• 1980 - Patrick Friesacher was born. Austrian race car driver.
• 1981 - Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1981 - Collien Fernandes was born. German TV host and actress (See Collien Fernandes wallpaper)
• 1981 - Christina Milian was born. American actress and singer. (See Christina Milian high resolution wallpaper)
• 1981 - Serena Williams was born. American tennis player.
• 1981 - Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1982 - Miguel Alfredo Portillo was born. Argentine footballer
• 1982 - Alec Hurwood dies (b. 1902). Australian cricketer.
• 1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
• 1983 - Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
• 1983 - Ricardo Quaresma was born in Lisbon. Portuguese footaball player (FC Porto).
• 1983 - Samantha Hammel was born. American record producer and actress
• 1983 - Tino Rossi dies (b. 1907). French singer and actor.
• 1984 - United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong 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.
• 1984 - Keisha Buchanan was born. English singer and a member of the girlgroup Sugababes
• 1984 - John Facenda dies (b. 1913). American broadcaster and sports announcer.
• 1984 - Paquirri dies (b. 1948). Spanish bullfighter.
• 1985 - Lenna Kuurmaa was born. Estonian singer and a member of the girlgroup Vanilla Ninja
• 1986 - Ashley Leggat was born. Canadian actress.
• 1986 - Hugh Franklin dues (b. 1916). American soap opera actor.
• 1987 - Keith Allen was born. College Radio Personality (WDBK The Real 91.5 FM)
• 1987 - Rosie Munter was born. Swedish singer and model (Play)
• 1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.
• 1988 - Kiira Korpi was born. Finnish figure skater.
• 1988 - Mark Simpson was born. English Clarinetist and Composer.
• 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.
• 1991 - Billy Vaughn dies (b. 1919). American instrumentalist, singer and bandleader.
• 1993 - Posat I is launched, the first Portuguese satelite. / 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;
• 1997 - 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.
• 1999 - Oseola McCarty dies (b. 1908). Notable benefactor of Southern Miss.
• 2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 2000 - Express Samina, capsized after running aground near the isle of Paros. 82 people where killed.
• 2000 - Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan was born.
• 2000 - Richard Mulligan dies (b. 1932). American actor.
• 2000 - Baden Powell dies. Brazilian musician.
• 2001 - Star Trek: Enterprise begins airing in the US.
• 2001 - Walter Avancini dies (b. 18 Apr 1935). Brazilian actor and director.
• 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.
• 2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
• 2003 - Shawn Lane dies (b. 1963). American guitarist.
• 2003 - Robert Palmer dies (b. 1949). British singer.
• 2004 - Marianna Komlos dies (b. 1969). Professional wrestling valet
• 2005 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli Airstrikes on Palestinian targets continue, with the Israel Defense Forces firing missiles in Gaza, knocking out the power supply to the East of the city, the Khan Yunis refugee camp and Rafah. Hamas had earlier declared an end to rocket attacks following pressure from the Palestinian National Authority and Egypt
• 2006 - Benfica lost against Manchester United 0-1 for the Champions League.
• 2006 - Byron Nelson dies (b. 1912). American golfer
• 2006 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose dies (b. 1916)
• Bureflux (Discordianism)
• European Day of Languages
• Calendar of Saints - Sts. Cosmas and Damian.