About September 26
September 26, 2021 is the 269th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 128 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 26
- 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.
- 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.
- 1810 –A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
- 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.
- 1934 –Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
- 1950 –Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
- 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 –Fidel Castro announces Cuba’s support for the U.S.S.R.
- 1971 –The Freetown Christiania was founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –Polish Wikipedia was started.
- 2008 –Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
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