September 26: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1580 - Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
2. 1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
3. 1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
4. 1908 - Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
5. 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".
6. 1960 - In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
7. 1960 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
8. 1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
9. 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.
10. 2008 - Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
11. Famous Birthdays: Johnny Appleseed (American environmentalist), T. S. Eliot (American-born British writer and poet, Nobel laureate), Mark Haddon (English author), Olivia Newton-John (English-born Australian singer and actress), George Gershwin (American composer)

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