Skelepedia:Selected anniversaries/September 26
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Francis Drake
The Statue of Sir Francis Drake in Plymouth, England
Ruins of the Parthenon (painting by Pierre Peytier)
Yves Rossy
William II of England
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| European Day of Languages | refimprove |
| 1687 – The Parthenon in Athens was partly destroyed in an explosion while being used as a gunpowder magazine by Ottoman forces during an armed conflict against the Venetians. | Unreferenced material |
| 1810 – The Riksdag of the Estates adopted a new Act of Succession to regulate the right of members of the House of Bernadotte to accede to the Swedish throne. | refimprove |
| 1907 – Newfoundland and New Zealand became dominions within the British Empire. | Newfoundland has unreferenced section |
| 1914 – The Federal Trade Commission, an independent agency of the United States government to promote consumer protection, was established. | unreferenced section |
| 1918 – World War I: The Meuse–Argonne offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, began. | refimprove section |
| 1934 – The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, now a museum ship in Long Beach, California, was launched in Clydebank, Scotland. | unreferenced section |
| 1942 – The Holocaust: Nazi official August Frank issued a memorandum setting out how the belongings of murdered Jews were to be disposed of. | Single source |
| 1957 – West Side Story, a musical written by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim and based loosely on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, made its debut on Broadway. | expansion, refimprove section, one section has many CN tags |
| 1960 – More than 70 million people watched U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever televised U.S. presidential election debate. | needs more footnotes |
| 2002 – Template:MV, a Senegalese government-owned ferry, capsized off the coast of The Gambia, resulting in the deaths of at least 1,863 people. | refimprove |
| 2009 – Typhoon Ketsana struck the Philippines, the most devastating typhoon ever to hit Manila, before moving on to affect Southeast Asia. | unreferenced section |
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- 1087 – William II, son of William the Conqueror, was crowned king of England.
- 1580 – Explorer Francis Drake's galleon Golden Hind (replica pictured) sailed into Plymouth, England, completing his circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1907 – The British Colony of New Zealand officially became a dominion to reflect its political independence since the 1850s.
- 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the Battle of Passchendaele, began near Ypres, Belgium.
- 1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he supposedly shouted "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which became a nickname for FBI agents.
- 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Army completed the Tallinn Offensive, driving German forces out of Estonia.
- 1968 – The Beatles completed the recording of John Lennon's song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", regarded by all the band members as their favourite on the album The Beatles.
- 1983 – The racing yacht Australia II, captained by John Bertrand, won the America's Cup and ended the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the trophy.
- 1983 – Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a potential nuclear war by identifying as a false alarm signals that appeared to indicate an impending U.S. missile attack.
- 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy flew a wingpack powered by jet engines across the English Channel.
- Born/died: | Francis Daniel Pastorius |b|1651| Richard Grenville-Temple |b|1711| Théodore Géricault |b|1791| Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford |b|1865| Edith Abbott |b|1876| Bertha De Vriese |b|1877| Henri Fertet |d|1943| Wendy Saddington |b|1949| Leslie Morshead |d|1959| Jeanie Buss |b|1961| Ramang |d|1987
September 26: First day of Rosh Hashanah (Judaism, 2022, AM 5783)
Yuen Ren Chao, designer of Gwoyeu Romatzyh
- 1493 – Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem, one of the Bulls of Donation, marking the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
- 1928 – The Republic of China adopted Gwoyeu Romatzyh (designer pictured) as the official system for romanization of Mandarin Chinese.
- 1959 – Japan was struck by Typhoon Vera, the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country, causing damage in excess of US$261 million and more than 5,000 deaths.
- 2010 – Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
- 2014 – Forty-three students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in Iguala, Mexico, were kidnapped and probably later killed.
- Fujiwara no Teika (d. 1241)
- Vladimir Voinovich (b. 1932)
- Lynn Anderson (b. 1947)
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