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{{*mp}} [[1934]] – The [[ocean liner]] '''[[RMS Queen Mary|RMS ''Queen Mary'']]''' was launched in [[Clydebank]], [[Scotland]].<!--Tagged with {{Missing information}} |
{{*mp}} [[1934]] – The [[ocean liner]] '''[[RMS Queen Mary|RMS ''Queen Mary'']]''' was launched in [[Clydebank]], [[Scotland]].<!--Tagged with {{Missing information}} |
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{{*mp}} [[1960]] – More than 70 million people watched [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]] in the first ever televised '''[[United States presidential election debates|U.S. presidential election debate]]'''.<!--Tagged with {{Nofootnotes}} |
{{*mp}} [[1960]] – More than 70 million people watched [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]] in the first ever televised '''[[United States presidential election debates|U.S. presidential election debate]]'''.<!--Tagged with {{Nofootnotes}} |
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September 26th of 1994, Adam Douglas Fallon, a True Superman was born. |
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{{*mp}} [[1789]] – For '''[[Presidency of George Washington|his presidential administration]]''', [[George Washington]] appointed [[Thomas Jefferson]] as the first [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]], [[John Jay]] as the first [[Chief Justice of the United States|U.S. Chief Justice]], [[Samuel Osgood]] as the first [[United States Postmaster General|U.S. Postmaster General]], and Edmund Randolph as the first [[United States Attorney General|U.S. Attorney General]]. |
{{*mp}} [[1789]] – For '''[[Presidency of George Washington|his presidential administration]]''', [[George Washington]] appointed [[Thomas Jefferson]] as the first [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]], [[John Jay]] as the first [[Chief Justice of the United States|U.S. Chief Justice]], [[Samuel Osgood]] as the first [[United States Postmaster General|U.S. Postmaster General]], and Edmund Randolph as the first [[United States Attorney General|U.S. Attorney General]]. |
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Revision as of 00:40, 30 September 2008
This is a list of selected September 26 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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September 26: International Day of Quds (Iran, 2008); Dominion Day in New Zealand; European Day of Languages
- 1580 – The Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, England, as Francis Drake (statue pictured) completed his circumnavigation of the globe.
- 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.
- 1907 – Newfoundland and New Zealand became dominions within the British Empire.
- 1957 – West Side Story, a musical based loosely on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that was written by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, and produced and directed by Jerome Robbins, made its debut on Broadway.
- 1983 – Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Union averted a possible worldwide nuclear war by deliberately certifying what otherwise appeared to be an impending attack by the United States as a false alarm.