September 26

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 26. From 1900 until now. September 26 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Serena Williams (1981), M Pokora (1985) and Olivia Newton-John (1948). Several movies were released around September 26 over the years, such as Intersection in 2015 directed by Tim French and The Lost Weekend in 1945 directed by Billy Wilder.
But much more happened on September 26 over the years: find out below

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2018 Battle of Tripoli (2018): A ceasefire has ended heavy fighting in Tripoli that has killed over 100 people in a month from different militias. (Fox News)
2017 2017 Har Adar shooting: Three Israelis are killed and one other is wounded after a Palestinian gunman opens fire in an entrance to the Israeli settlement of Har Adar in the West Bank. (Reuters)
2016 Colombian conflict: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC guerrilla leader Rodrigo Londoño, also known as Timochenko, sign a peace accord in Cartagena, ending the longest running armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere. The final agreement will be submitted to popular ratification in a referendum on October 2.(Reuters)
2015 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: Two Saudi border guards, including a district commander, are killed following clashes with Yemeni forces near the border with Yemen. (Reuters)
2014 The People's Republic of China says that 50 people died in recent violence in the western province of Xinjiang. (Voice of America)
2013 Terrorists attack a police station in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, killing six people, before attacking an Army camp. (Reuters)
2012 Syrian civil war:: Twin explosions near the headquarters of the Syrian Armed Forces in central Damascus kill at least four military guards. (Al Jazeera)Press TV correspondent Maya Nasser is killed by sniper fire while reporting from the scene of twin bomb blasts in Damascus. (The Guardian)Qatar calls for Arab intervention in Syria. (Al Jazeera)Local activists report a massacre of over 40 civilians by the Syrian army in the Damascus suburb of Thiabieh. (TIME)
2011 2011 Libyan civil war: Forces loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC) enter Muammar Gaddafi's stronghold of Sirte, as the NTC's three-day assault on the city intensifies. (BBC)
2010 A clash between ethnic Bugis and Tidung (Tarakan indigenous people) claimed one life in Juwata sub-district, Tarakan, East Kalimantan. (Jakarta Post)
2009 Second South America-Africa Summit (ASA) on Isla Margarita:
2008 Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
2007 More than half a million Chinese-manufactured toys are recalled in the United States due to excess levels of lead paint including 269,000 of RC2 Corp's ampquotThomas Friendsampquot toy trains. (Reuters)
2006 Riots break in Dhaka, Bangladesh, due to frequent power outages. Hundreds are injured in confrontations with riot police . (AP)
2005 U.S. Army Reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on six of seven counts in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
2004 Conflict in Iraq: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says, in an interview on the ABC television interview program This Week, that the insurgency in Iraq is worsening, and that the aim of the insurgents is to disrupt the upcoming elections. (BBC) (Reuters)
2003 Medicine: An experimental treatment given to a British man has halted the progress of brain damage caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
2002 The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2001 The fifth Star Trek television series Enterprise debuts on UPN.
2000 The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 56th HR of 1997
1996 Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
1995 George magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr
1994 Estonia government of Laar flees
1993 30th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England
1992 1st time a positional player pitches for New York Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
1991 Two-year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona begins.
1990 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating.
1989 Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched
1987 Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
1986 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
1985 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
1984 Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit
1983 Lebanon Premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1982 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1981 First flight of the Boeing 767 airliner.
1980 Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed
1979 1984 summer Los Angeles Olympic coverage sold to ABC for US$225 million.
1978 New York District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
1977 Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27
1976 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf
1973 Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors.
1972 Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
1971 Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season
1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1969 Beatles release Abbey Road album
1968 1st broadcast of Hawaii Five-O on CBS-TV
1966 Staten Island, 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
1965 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1964 Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
1963 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
1962 LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
1961 From the Second City opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
1960 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon and Kennedy took place (Chicago)
1959 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
1957 West Side Story opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 734 performances
1955 New York Stock Exchange suffers worst stock prices decline since 1929.
1954 Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die
1953 Billy Hunter is last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game
1951 Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
1950 Australia wins Davis Cup tennis tournament
1948 Boston Braves win first National League championship since 1914.
1947 Happy Chandler announces Ford and Gillette to sponsor World Series.
1946 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993
1945 All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1944 British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)
1940 Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed
1939 German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed)
1938 Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
1937 Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program, ''The Shadow'', with Orson Welles in the title role.
1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched
1933 A tornado destroys the town of Tampico, Mexico.
1931 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld
1929 John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria
1927 St. James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St, New York City
1926 Shortest double header, New York Yankees lose 6-1 in 72 minutes and lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Saint Louis Browns. New York Yankees had already clinched pennant.
1925 8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields Country Club - Matteson, Illinois
1923 Stresemann Government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied
1921 Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 and 58 to beat Indians 8-7
1919 US President Wilson hit by a heart attack
1918 Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WWI
1917 British assault on Menin-street, France
1916 Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions
1914 Germans arrest A Max, Mayor of Brussels
1908 Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Brooklyn Dodgers in a doubleheader.
1907 New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1904 Charles Kleins Music Master, premieres in New York City
1901 Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal
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