Men Who Made History…TODAY

Men who made History

1918        Sep 26, German Ace Ernst Udet shot down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62. 1992        Sep 26, South African President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela held their first meeting in three months, during which they agreed on the urgent need for an interim government. 1996        Sep 26, President Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies. 1999        Sep 26, In Egypt a weekend referendum for Pres. Mubarek (71) gave him 94% support with a 79% turnout. Opposition groups boycotted the vote and called for democracy and the lifting of the state of emergency in force since 1981. 2000        Sep 26, Philippine Abu Sayyaf rebels claimed to have escaped from Jolo Island. 2000        Sep 26, Actor Richard Mulligan died at age 67. 2001         Sep 26, Israel’s Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat met for peace talks at the urging of the United States. They pledged a new drive for peace and agreed to resume cooperation between their security forces as Palestinian gunmen and Israeli troops exchanged gunfire. Gaza fighting left a Palestinian youth dead. 2003        Sep 26, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a two-day summit at Camp David. 2005        Sep 26, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi was cleared of charges of false bookkeeping in a case involving funding for the former Socialist party. 2006        Sep 26, In Florida, brothers Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (67) and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela (62), who headed the Colombia’s Cali cocaine cartel, were sentenced to 30 years in prison. They agreed to forfeit $2.1 billion worth of assets linked to the drug trade as part of their plea agreement. In exchange half a dozen of their relatives would not face prosecution. 2006        Sep 26, Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft Corp., announced a $41 million computerized atlas of the 20,000 genes in the brain of a mouse. The atlas was made available online at www.brainatlas.org. 2008        Sep 26, Barack Obama and John McCain shared a stage in their first of three presidential debates. It primarily focused on foreign policy. 2009        Sep 26, Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s nuclear chief, said his country will allow the UN nuclear agency to inspect its newly revealed, still unfinished uranium enrichment facility2011        Sep 26, In Nevada Arthur Gerald Jones (73), a former Chicago commodities trader arrested in July, pleaded guilty to fraud. He had disappeared over three decades ago from Highland Park, Illinois, and was discovered living in Las Vegas under the assumed name of Joseph Richard Sandelli. 2011        Sep 26, Russia’s influential finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, was forced out after a television confrontation with Pres. Dmitri Medvedev. 2012        Sep 26, Radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri (54) won a delay in his extradition from Britain to the United States, days after he lost an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.