About September 26
September 26, 2024 is the 270th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 125 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.
- 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.
- 1783 –The first battle of Shays’ Rebellion begins.
- 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.
- 1907 –New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
- 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.
- 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 –Australia II wins the America’s Cup, ending the longest winning streak in sporting history.
- 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.
- 2002 –The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of The Gambia killing more than 1,000.
- 2009 –Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
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