This Day in History
26 Sep 1212
Golden Bull of Sicily certified hereditary royal title in Bohemia for Pemyslid dynasty
26 Sep 1396
Sultan Bajezid I beheads hundreds of crusaders
26 Sep 1404
Brussels BrabantsLimburgse audit-office established
26 Sep 1580
Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind
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Shannon Lucid returns to Earth
U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returns to Earth in the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis following six months in orbit aboard the Russian space station Mir.On March 23...
West Side Story opens on Broadway
On September 26 1957 West Side Story composed by Leonard Bernstein opens at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. For the groundbreaking musical Bernstein...
Kennedy and Nixon square off in first televised presidential debate
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Meuse Argonne offensive opens
At 530 on the morning of September 26 1918 after a six-hour-long bombardment over the previous night more than 700 Allied tanks followed closely by infantr...
First American soldier killed in American Phase of Vietnam War
Lt. Col. Peter Dewey a U.S. Army officer with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Vietnam is shot and killed in Saigon. Dewey was the head of a seven-m...
Four 20 game winners
On September 26 1971 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer wins his 20th game of the year becoming the fourth Orioles pitcher to win 20 games in the 1971 seas...
The famous frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri
On September 26 1820 the great pioneering frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly in his sleep at his sons home near present-day Defiance Missouri. Th...
T S Eliot is born
Poet T.S. Eliot is born in St. Louis Missouri on September 26 1888. Eliots distinguished family tree included an ancestor who arrived in Boston ...
The Brady Bunch premieres
On September 26 1969 American television audiences hear the soon-to-be-famous opening lyrics Heres the story of a lovely lady who was living wi...
Mistrial declared in Phil Spector murder case
Music producer Phil Spectors trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson ends in a mistrial when the jury cannot come to a unanimous verdict.On Februa...
Work begins at company that designs first mass produced car radios
On September 26 1928 work begins at Chicagos new Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. (The company had officially incorporated the day before.) In 1930 ...
Allies slaughtered by Germans in Arnhem
On September 26 1944 Operation Market Garden a plan to seize bridges in the Dutch town of Arnhem fails as thousands of British and Polish troops are killed...
'I Have Heard The Voice of Adolf Hitler . . .'
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1914 Trusts taken to task
The Federal Trade Commission was established....
1738 Scottish philosopher David Hume enters into a contract to publish the first two volumes of his seminal work "A Treatise of Human Nature" with John Noon in London
David Hume started writing his most important philosopher work A treatise of Human Nature at just 23. It was published in 1739 and 1740 to little success yet...
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