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

  • 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.
  • 1777
    British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
  • 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.
  • 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”.
  • 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
    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
    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.
  • 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.

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