Independence
day
New Zealand
UN
Day
International
Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons
Events
of the day
The
European Day of Languages
The European Day of Languages (EDL), a Council
of Europe initiative, is held annually on
the 26September to celebrate language and
cultural diversity. The Day was first celebrated
in 2001, theEuropean Year of Languages and
involves more people every year
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.
1212 – Golden Bull of Sicily is certified
as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia
for the Přemyslid dynasty.
1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation
of the Earth.
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.
1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
1783 – The first battle of Shays' Rebellion
begins.
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.
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.
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called
Mecca) is established in New York City.
1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each
become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 – Ed Reulbach becomes the first and
only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one
day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) is established by the Federal Trade
Commission Act.
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 resumes the Weimar
Republic's payment of reparations.
1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
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".
1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden
fails.
1944 – World War II: On the central front
of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control
the Serchio valley region after ten days
of fighting.
1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul
from North Korean forces.
1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United
Nations.
1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks
during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait,
Japan killing 1,172.
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.
1960 – In Chicago, 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.
1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego
County, California, burning 175,425 acres
(709.92 km²).
1971 – The Freetown Christiania was founded.
1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop
crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking
time.
1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major
League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav
Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear
war by correctly identifying a report of
an incoming nuclear missile as a computer
error and not an American first strike.
1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the
handover of Hong Kong
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.
2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague
(some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during
the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros
in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2001 – Polish Wikipedia was started.
2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry
MV Joola capsizes off the coast of The Gambia
killing more than 1,000.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Days:
Cosmas and Damian
John of Meda
Nilus the Younger
September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the National Flag (Ecuador)
Dominion Day (New Zealand)
European Day of Languages (European Union)
Revolution Day (Yemen)
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