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What happened in history on this day: September 26?
On September 26 in ...
- 1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
- 1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed first US Secretary of State; John Jay is appointed first chief justice; Samuel Osgood is appointed first Postmaster; Edmund J Randolph is appointed first Attorney General.
- 1789 - US President George Washington appoints Sanuel Osgood as first Postmaster General of the US.
- 1861 - US President Abraham Lincoln appoints William L. Hodge as interim Treasury Secretary during absence of Secretary Salmon P. Chase.
- 1890 - US stops minting $1 and $3 gold coins and 3-cent piece.
- 1890 - US Congress passes a law requiring coinage designs be used for a minimum of 25 years before they can be redesigned without special Congressional approval.
- 1914 - Federal Trade Commission is formed to regulate interstate commerce.
- 1955 - New York Stock Exchange suffers worst stock prices decline since 1929.
- 1957 - Musical West Side Story opens on Broadway.
- 1960 - First of four televised US Presidential debates take place: Richard Nixon and John Kennedy (Chicago, Illinois).
- 1960 - Longest speech in United Nations history (4 hours, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro).
- 1972 - American Museum of Immigration dedicated.
- 1973 - Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris, France, in record-breaking 3 hours 33 minutes.
- 1977 - Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to New York.
- 1981 - First flight of the Boeing 767 airliner.
- 1984 - US President Ronald Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa.
- 1986 - Antonin Scalia becomes a US Supreme Court Justice.
- 1986 - William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
- 1988 - New York City's Rockefeller Center is declared a national landmark.
- 1990 - Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating.
- 1991 - Two-year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona begins.
- 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.
Births on September 26
- 1888 - Birth of T.S. Eliot in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land - Nobel Prize 1948).
- 1898 - Birth of George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin] in Brooklyn, New York, USA; composer (Rhapsody in Blue).
- 1901 - Birth of Donald Cook in Portland, Oregon, USA; actor (Too Young To Go Steady).
- 1919 - Birth of Barbara Britton in Long Beach, California, USA; actress (Young and Willing).
- 1925 - Birth of Marty Robbins in Glendale, Arizona, USA; singer ("Devil Woman", "I Walk Alone").
- 1926 - Birth of Julie London in Santa Rosa, California, USA; actress (Nurse McCall - Emergency).
- 1927 - Birth of Patrick O'Neal in Ocala, Florida, USA; actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat).
- 1930 - Birth of Philip Bosco in Jersey City, Jersey, USA; actor (Trading Places).
- 1932 - Birth of Clifton C Williams Junior in Mobile, Alabama, USA; Major US Marine Corp/astronaut.
- 1932 - Birth of Joyce Jameson in Chicago, Illinois, USA; comedienne (Spike Jones Show).
- 1933 - Birth of Donna Douglas [Dot Smith] in Pride, Louisiana, USA; actress (Beverly Hillbillies).
- 1942 - Birth of Kent McCord in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Officer Jim Reed - Adam 12).
- 1946 - Birth of Mary Beth Hurt in Iowa, USA; actress (Garp, Change of Seasons).
- 1947 - Birth of Lynn Anderson in North Dakota, USA; country singer ("I Never Promised you a Rose Garden").
- 1952 - Birth of James Keane in Buffalo, New York, USA; actor (Willis Bell - Paper Chase).
- 1956 - Birth of Linda Hamilton in Salisbury, Maryland, USA; actress (Catherine - Beauty and the Beast).
- 1962 - Birth of Melissa Sue Anderson in California, USA; actress (Little House on the Prairie).
- 1967 - Birth of Martha Nix in Orange County, California, USA; actress (Serena - The Waltons).
- 1972 - Birth of Shann Stockman [Slim] in Philadelphia Pennsylvania; rapper (Boyz II Men).
Deaths on September 26
- 1820 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at age 85.
- 2004 - Death of Marianna Komlos American professional wrestler and fitness model (born 1969).
- 2005 - Death of Jerry Juhl, American writer (born 1938).
- 2005 - Death of Shawntinice Polk, American basketball player (born 1983).
- 2016 - Death of Herschell Gordon Lewis, American film director and screenwriter (born 1929).
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