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Monday, September 26, 2016

Today in History

1580
Sir Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, aboard the Golden Hind, after a 33-month voyage to circumnavigate the globe.
1777
The British army launches a major offensive, capturing Philadelphia.
1786
France and Britain sign a trade agreement in London.
1820
The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85.
1826
The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus.
1829
Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.
1864
General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men assault a Federal garrison near Pulaski, Tennessee.
1901
Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death..
1913
The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal.
1914
The Federal Trade Commission is established to foster competition by preventing monopolies in business.
1918
German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62.
1937
Bessie Smith, known as the ‘Empress of the Blues,’ dies in a car crash in Mississippi.
1940
During the London Blitz, the underground Cabinet War Room suffers a hit when a bomb explodes on the Clive Steps.
1941
The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps.
1950
General Douglas MacArthur‘s American X Corps, fresh from the Inchon landing, links up with the U.S. Eighth Army after its breakout from the Pusan Perimeter.
1955
The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss.
1960
Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy participate in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates.
1961
Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde’s Folk City.
1967
Hanoi rejects a U.S. peace proposal.
1969
The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released.
1972
Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch.
1977
Israel announces a cease-fire on Lebanese border.
1983
In the USSR Stanislav Petrov disobeys procedures and ignores electronic alarms indicating five incoming nuclear missiles, believing the US would launch more than five if it wanted to start a war. His decision prevented a retaliatory attack that would have begun a nuclear war between the superpowers..
1984
The UK agrees to transfer sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
1997
Two earthquakes strike Italy, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis to collapse, killing four people and destroying much of the cycle of frescoes depicting the saint’s life.
2008
Yves Rossy, a Swiss pilot and inventor, is the first person to fly a jet-powered wing across the English Channel.

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