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
- 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.
- 1792 –Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
- 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.
- 1917 –World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
- 1923 –Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic’s payment of reparations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971 –The Freetown Christiania was founded.
- 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.
- 2000 –Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
- 2002 –The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of The Gambia killing more than 1,000.
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