About September 26
September 26, 2025 is the 269th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 144 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 26
- 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.
- 1580 –Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
- 1783 –The first battle of Shays’ Rebellion begins.
- 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.
- 1918 –World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
- 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: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
- 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.
- 1960 –Fidel Castro announces Cuba’s support for the U.S.S.R.
- 1973 –Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
- 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.
- 2000 –The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
- 2009 –Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
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