Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 26
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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Francis Drake -
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Golden Hind -
The Parthenon -
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Yves Rossy
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1580 – The Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, England, as explorer Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe. | unreferenced section |
| 1789 – For his presidential administration, George Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson as the first U.S. Secretary of State, John Jay as the first Chief Justice, Samuel Osgood as the first Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph as the first Attorney General. | unreferenced sections, essay |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 1907 – Newfoundland and New Zealand became dominions within the British Empire. | Newfoundland needs more footnotes |
| 1914 – The Federal Trade Commission, an independent agency of the United States government to promote consumer protection, was established. | unreferenced section |
| 1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, began. | multiple issues |
| 1934 – The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, now a museum ship in Long Beach, California, was launched in Clydebank, Scotland. | refimprove section |
| 1957 – West Side Story, a musical written by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim and based loosely on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, made its debut on Broadway. | refimprove sections |
| 1960 – More than 70 million people watched U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever televised U.S. presidential election debate. | needs more footnotes, refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1687 – The Parthenon in Athens was partially destroyed during an armed conflict between the Venetians under Francesco Morosini and Ottoman forces.
- 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the Third Battle of Ypres, began near Ypres, Belgium.
- 1983 – The racing yacht Australia II, captained by John Bertrand, won the America's Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defense of the trophy.
- 2002 – MV Le Joola, a Senegalese government-owned ferry, capsized off the coast of The Gambia, resulting in the deaths of at least 1,863 people.
- 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy became the first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
September 26: European Day of Languages; Dominion Day in New Zealand (1907)
- 1087 – William II (pictured), son of William the Conqueror, was crowned King of England.
- 1493 – Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem, the last of the Bulls of Donation, marking the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
- 1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he supposedly shouted out, "Don't shoot, G-Men ('government men')!", which became a nickname for FBI agents.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: Nazi official August Frank issued a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail on how Jews should be "evacuated".
- 1983 – Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov 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.