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46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
1212 – Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
1345 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
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.
1396 Ottoman Sultan Bajezid I beheads hundreds of crusaders after the Battle of Nicopolis
1404 Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established
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.
1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1629 Sweden & Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1655 Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware
1665 Height of the Great Plague of London as 7,165 people die throughout the previous week
1680 Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal
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.
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
1738 Scottish philosopher David Hume enters into a contract to publish the first two volumes of his seminal work "A Treatise of Human Nature" with John Noon in London
1771 Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel" premieres in Paris
1772 New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practise medicine
1777 – American Revolution: British General William Howe occupie Philadelphia.
1783 Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
1786 Britain & France sign trade agreement
1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph the first United States 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 and Austria sign the Holy Alliance
1824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
1831 Robert Montgomery Bird's play "The Gladiator" premieres in NYC
1835 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy)
1861 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. beats Willie Park Sr. by 4 strokes
1867 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. wins 4th title; beats rival Willie Park Sr. by 2 strokes; at 46, Morris remains oldest Open champion
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
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 – John Philip Sousa’s band makes its first public appearance at Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, New Jersey.
1895 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
1898 Victor Herbert and Harry Smith's operetta "The Fortune Teller" premieres at Wallack's Theater, New York City
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
1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1910 – Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and exiled.
1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1914 Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
1916 Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions
1917 British assault on Menin-street, France
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
1923 – Gustav Stresemann government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied and resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations.
1923 The Commonwealth Conference is held in London, where Britain recognizes the right of the Dominions to make treaties with foreign powers
1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
1926 JB Fagan's stage drama "And So to Bed", based on the life of Samuel Pepys, premieres in London
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
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.
1933 – Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger.
1934 – British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched; "wins" Blue Riband for fastest passenger crossing of Atlantic, 1936 & 1938-52; retired in 1967, permanently moored and converted to a hotel in Long Beach, California
1938 Adolf Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
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".
1943 – Henri Fertet was executed by the Nazis. The 16-year-old French schoolboy became a symbol of the French Resistance.
1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden: Battle of Arnhem ends in Allied failure as German forces link up on both sides of the Lower Rhine river and mop up last British resistance
1944 Soviet forces occupy Estonia
1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
1945 – All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1945 – The first American soldier was killed in Vietnam. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Dewey, a member of the Office of Strategic Services, was in Vietnam to report on the situation following the end of World War II.
1949 Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1951 Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
1953 Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski
1953 US & Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in Spain)
1954 – Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957: Leornard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins' musical "West Side Story" premieres at the Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 732 performances, wins 2 Tony Awards. whatwasthere.com
1957 Dag Hammarskjöld re-elected secretary-general of UN
1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1959 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing
1960 – A Presidential debate was shown on television for the first time ever. The debate was between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy, and it was held in Chicago, Illinois in a sound studio, the first debate out of four.
1960 Cuban leader Fidel Castro delivers a 4 hour and 29 minute long speech at the United Nations
1961 "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
1939 German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed)
1940 Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed
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".
1943 – Henri Fertet was executed by the Nazis. The 16-year-old French schoolboy became a symbol of the French Resistance.
1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden: Battle of Arnhem ends in Allied failure as German forces link up on both sides of the Lower Rhine river and mop up last British resistance
1944 Soviet forces occupy Estonia
1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
1945 – All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1945 – The first American soldier was killed in Vietnam. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Dewey, a member of the Office of Strategic Services, was in Vietnam to report on the situation following the end of World War II.
1949 Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1951 Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
1953 Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski
1953 US & Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in Spain)
1954 – Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957: Leornard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins' musical "West Side Story" premieres at the Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 732 performances, wins 2 Tony Awards. whatwasthere.com
1957 Dag Hammarskjöld re-elected secretary-general of UN
1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1959 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing
1960 – A Presidential debate was shown on television for the first time ever. The debate was between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy, and it was held in Chicago, Illinois in a sound studio, the first debate out of four.
1960 Cuban leader Fidel Castro delivers a 4 hour and 29 minute long speech at the United Nations
1961 "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
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 City, Mexico
1964 – CBS debuts the sitcom "Gilligan's Island" starring Bob Denver as Gilligan.
1966 "Staten Island" 1st icebreaker to enter San Francisco Bay
1967 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Violin concert premieres in Moscow
1968 "Oliver!" directed by Carol Reed and starring Mark Lester and Ron Moody premieres in London (Best Picture 1969)
1968 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV
1968 Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal
1968 Theatre censorship ends in Britain
1969 Apple Records releases The Beatles 11th studio album "Abbey Road", their final recordings as a quartet; tops the charts in 11 countries
1969 Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia
1969 TV sitcom "The Brady Bunch" created by Sherwood Schwartz premieres on ABC in the US
1969 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1970 Groups of Protestant youth attack the Catholic Unity Flats as rioting continues in the Protestant Shankill Road area
1970 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
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 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington, D.C. to Paris) in record-breaking time (3h33m).
1973 Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2½ years)
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
1978 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
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 performances
1982 "Knight Rider", starring David Hasselhoff, debuts on NBC
1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
1983 Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1983 Soviet military officer Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error
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 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1985 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
1986 Antonin Scalia, sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to TV show "Dallas", his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
1986 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
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 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 Nigerian Air Force Hercules C-130 crashes three minutes after take-off from Lagos, Nigeria, killing 163
1992 Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 Tsuruhiko Kiuchi rediscovers Comet Swift-Tuttle, the first time it has been spotted since 1862
1994 Estonia government of Prime Minister Mart Laar was defeated by no-confidence vote
1994 Switzerland bans racist propaganda
1995 "George" magazine premieres, published by John F. Kennedy Jr
1996 Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
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 M/S Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 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 (Best Picture 2007)
2007 Shinzō Abe formally ends his first 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.
2010 TV Period drama "Downton Abbey" premieres in the UK created by Julian Fellowes, starring Hugh Bonnevillle and an ensemble cast
2012 Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures
2012 Japanese automakers suspend operations in China
2012 Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus
2014 43 students from Ayotzinapa Teachers College go missing (and presumed murdered) in Iguala on their way to a protest - one of Mexico's worst human rights cases
2014 World Health Organizations estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091 - with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit hardest
2016 First US Presidential debate: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton vs Republican Donald Trump at Hofstra University
2017 Fights break out in Uganda's parliament during debate to raise presidential age limit
2017 Saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving - last country in the world to do so
2017 The video game Fortnite: Battle Royale is released, eventually becoming one of the most popular games worldwide
2017 World's second-largest gem-quality diamond, the "Lesedi La Rona", sells for $53m
2019 Abortion is decriminalized in New South Wales, the last remaining Australian state to do so
2019 US Income inequality widest for over 50 years, worst in California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and New York, according to new census figures
2019 WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in worlds's largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives
2020 108 pilot whales survive, while 350 die in Australia's largest mass stranding at Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania
2020 President Donald Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2021 German election: centre-left Social Democrats win most seats but not a majority over ruling conservative Christian Democratic Union without its retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel
2021 Switzerland votes to legalize same-sex marriage in nationwide referendum
2022 Edward Snowden , former US intelligence contractor who exposed NSA surveillance program granted Russian citizenship by Vladimir Putin
2022 Gunman opens fire on a school in Izhevsk, central Russia, killing 15 people including 11 children and injuring 24
2022 NASA's DART mission successfully crashes into the Dimorphos asteroid in the first planetary defense test
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, Confessor Double
Commemoration of SS. Cyprian and Justina, Martyrs
Commemoration of SS. Cyprian and Justina, Martyrs
Contemporary Western
Cosmas and Damian
John of Meda
Nilus the Younger
John of Meda
Nilus the Younger
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Lancelot Andrewes (commemoration, Anglicanism)
Wilson Carlile (Anglican)
Wilson Carlile (Anglican)
Eastern Orthodox
September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
(presumed author of the Gospel of John, 1, 2 and 3 John, and the Book of Revelation)
Righteous Gideon, Judge of Israel (1307 BC)
Saint Ephraim, abbot of Perekop, wonderworker of Novgorod (1492)
Saint Nilus of Rossano (Calabria) (1004)
Martyr Cyra
Glorification (1989) of New Hiero-confessor Tikhon;
patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1925)
Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
(presumed author of the Gospel of John, 1, 2 and 3 John, and the Book of Revelation)
Righteous Gideon, Judge of Israel (1307 BC)
Saint Ephraim, abbot of Perekop, wonderworker of Novgorod (1492)
Saint Nilus of Rossano (Calabria) (1004)
Martyr Cyra
Glorification (1989) of New Hiero-confessor Tikhon;
patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1925)
Coptic Orthodox
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