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September 26 Historical Events

The following events took place on September 26. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 51 events. Showing 31 - 51.

  • 1959
    Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
  • 1960
    In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
  • 1960
    Fidel Castro announces Cuba’s support for the U.S.S.R.
  • 1969
    Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
  • 1970
    The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acre.
  • 1971
    The Freetown Christiania was founded.
  • 1973
    Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
  • 1980
    At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people died and 211 were injured.
  • 1981
    Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
  • 1983
    Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
  • 1983
    Australia II wins the America’s Cup ending the New York Yacht Club’s 132-year domination of the race.
  • 1984
    The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong.
  • 1997
    A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
  • 1997
    An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
  • 2000
    Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
  • 2000
    The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
  • 2002
    The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
  • 2008
    Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
  • 2009
    Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
  • 2010
    Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues are kidnapped by members of the Taliban in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan.
  • 2014
    A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico.

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