Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 26
September 26: Sukkot begins at sunset (Judaism, 2007); European Day of Languages; Dominion Day in New Zealand.
- 1580 – The Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, England, as Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1687 – The Parthenon in Athens (pictured) was partially destroyed during an armed conflict between the Venetians under Francesco Morosini and Ottoman forces.
- 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.
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