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On this day - September 26
Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow ...
715 — Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1087 — William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
1142 — Stephen of Blois's army approached Oxford, beginning the ...
1212 — The Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary ...
1345 — Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of ...
1371 — Serbian–Turkish wars: Ottoman Turks fought against a Serbian ...
1423 — Hundred Years' War: A French army defeats the English at ...
1493 — Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the ...
1580 — Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth in ...
1687 — Morean War: The Parthenon in Athens, used as a gunpowder depot ...
1688 — The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of ...
1777 — American Revolutionary War: British troops capture and begin ...
1789 — George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United ...
1799 — War of the 2nd Coalition: French troops defeat Austro-Russian ...
1810 — A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the ...
1905 — Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis ...
1907 — Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand ...
1914 — The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by ...
1917 — World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
1918 — World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began which would ...
1919 — Ukrainian War of Independence: The Revolutionary Insurgent ...
1923 — The German government calls off the passive resistance to the ...
1933 — As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts ...
1936 — Spanish Civil War: Lluis Companys reshuffles the Generalitat ...
1942 — Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum ...
1950 — Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North ...
1953 — Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends.
1954 — The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in ...
1959 — Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded ...
1960 — In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between ...
1978 — Air Caribbean Flight 309 crashes in Residencial Las Casas in ...
1980 — A terrorist bombing at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, ...
1983 — Soyuz 7K-ST No. 16L, intended to launch a crew to the Salyut 7 ...
1983 — Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report ...
1984 — The United Kingdom and China agree to a transfer of ...
1992 — A Nigerian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes in ...
1994 — A Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes into a river near Vanavara, Russia, ...
1997 — An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the ...
1997 — A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, ...
2000 — The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea ...
2000 — Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) ...
2002 — The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MV Le Joola, capsizes off ...
2009 — Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, ...
2010 — The Philippine Bar exam bombing occurs near the De La Salle ...
2014 — A mass kidnapping of 43 students from a teaching college ...
2022 — A mass shooting occurs at a school in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, ...
2024 — Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Perry, Florida as a ...