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1396Sep 26Sultan Bajezid I beheaded several hundred crusaders.
1669Sep 26The island of Crete fell to the Ottoman Turks after 465 years as a colony of Venice.
1772Sep 26New Jersey passed a bill requiring a license to practice medicine.
1786Sep 26France and Britain signed a trade agreement in London.
1820Sep 26The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone died quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85.
1826Sep 26The Persian cavalry was routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus.
1835Sep 26Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Lucia di Lammermoor,” premiered in Naples.
1892Sep 26The Diamond Match Co. patented book matches.
1901Sep 26Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, was sentenced to death.
1904Sep 26GB Shaw’s “How He Lied to Her Husband,” premiered in NYC.
1907Sep 26New Zealand went from being a colony to a dominion within the British Empire.
1913Sep 26The first boat was raised in the locks of the Panama Canal.
1918Sep 26German Ace Ernst Udet shot down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62.
1925Sep 26The Italian submarine “Sebastiano Veniero” was lost off Sicily with 54 dead.
1934Sep 26The British liner Queen Mary was launched.
1937Sep 26Bessie Smith, known as the ”˜Empress of the Blues,’ died in a car crash on Highway 61 near Clarksdale, Mississippi.
1938Sep 26Hitler issued his ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudetenland.
1945Sep 26Bela Bartok (b.1881), Hungarian pianist and composer, died at age 64.
1950Sep 26Indonesia was admitted to the UN.
1951Sep 26Prof. Youngblood demonstrated an artificial heart in Paris.
1953Sep 26US and Spain signed a defense treaty with 4 US bases to be set in Spain.
1954Sep 26A typhoon hit Japan. 5 ferryboats sank killing about 1,600. The Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sank in the Strait of Tsugaru and 1172 died.
1956Sep 26Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), died at 78.
1959Sep 26Vera, Japan, was hit by a typhoon; about 5,000 died
1960Sep 26Ted Williams hit his 521st HR off Jack Fisher for his last time at bat.
1961Sep 26Roger Maris hit HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth’s record.
1963Sep 26Lee Harvey Oswald traveled on a Continental Trailways bus to Mexico.
1965Sep 26Queen Elizabeth decorated the Beatles with the Order of the British Empire.
1968Sep 26In Portugal Prof. Marcello Caetano replaced Antonio Salazar as Prime Minister.
1973Sep 26Anna Magnani (b.1908), Academy Award winning Italian actress, died in Rome.
1977Sep 26Israel announced a cease-fire on Lebanese border.
1981Sep 26The twin-engine Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in Everett, Wash.
1983Sep 26Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov were saved by their escape system when the rocket that was to carry their Soyuz T-10-1 mission into space caught fire on the launchpad.
1987Sep 26“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” debuted on TV.
1988Sep 26In a farewell speech to the U.N. General Assembly, President Reagan saw “a moment for hope” for peace in the world, citing a new U.S.-Soviet treaty to sharply reduce nuclear arms due during the following year.
1990Sep 26Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), died at 82.
1994Sep 26Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, President Clinton announced he had lifted most U.S. sanctions against Haiti and urged other nations to follow suit.
1995Sep 26The prosecution began its closing argument in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson.
1996Sep 26President Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies.
1997Sep 26Gap Inc. dressed the NY stock exchange in khakis fashion, the first casual dress day in exchange history
1999Sep 26In Afghanistan the Taliban bombed Taloqan for a 2nd day and 11 people, most of them children were killed.
2000Sep 26At the Sydney Olympics, the U.S. softball team completed a stunning comeback by edging Japan 2-to-1 in extra innings to win its second straight gold medal.
2001Sep 26Pres. Bush met with US Sikh and Muslim leaders and declared that discrimination against such groups would not be tolerated.
2002Sep 26Gap Inc, 6 other US firms and 23 local manufacturers settled a class-action lawsuit over alleged sweatshop abuses on Saipan. The deal created a $20 million fund for back wages and a monitoring system.
2003Sep 26President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a two-day summit at Camp David.
2004Sep 26Hurricane Jeanne blasted ashore in Florida with drenching rains and 120 mph wind. At least 1.5 million people were without power. An estimated 6 people were killed.
2005Sep 26Typhoon Damrey slammed into southern China’s resort island of Hainan, killing at least two people, collapsing houses and sweeping away rice, rubber and banana crops.
2006Sep 26Researchers reported that Earth’s temperature has climbed to a 12,000-year high and that it has been warming at a rate of .36° Fahrenheit per decade for the last 30 years.
2007Sep 26A judge declared a mistrial in Phil Spector’s murder trial because the jury was deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convicting the music producer of killing actress Lana Clarkson.
2008Sep 26Barack Obama and John McCain shared a stage in their first of three presidential debates. It primarily focused on foreign policy.
2009Sep 26The Australian town of Bundanoon pulled all bottled water from its shelves and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban.
2010Sep 26San Francisco held its 27th annual Folsom Street Fair, a celebration of fetishes and aggressive sexuality.
2011Sep 26The US Congress finessed a dispute over disaster aid and advanced legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown only days away.
2012Sep 26California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill banning the use of dogs for hunting bears and bobcats.
2013Sep 26An Afghan man wearing the uniform of the country’s security forces turned his weapon on NATO troops in Paktia province, killing a US service member of the international coalition.
2014Sep 26In Arizona the Navajo Nation held a signing ceremony for a $554 milion settlement of a 2006 lawsuit over federal government mismanagement of tribal resources.

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