| 1580 |
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Sir Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, aboard the Golden Hind, after a 33-month voyage to circumvent the globe. |
| 1777 |
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The British army launches a major offensive, capturing Philadelphia. |
| 1786 |
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France and Britain sign a trade agreement in London. |
| 1820 |
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The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85. |
| 1826 |
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The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus. |
| 1829 |
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Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed. |
| 1864 |
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General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men assault a Federal garrison near Pulaski, Tennessee. |
| 1901 |
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Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death.. |
| 1913 |
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The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal. |
| 1914 |
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The Federal Trade Commission is established to foster competition by preventing monopolies in business. |
| 1918 |
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German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62. |
| 1937 |
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Bessie Smith, known as the 'Empress of the Blues,' dies in a car crash in Mississippi. |
| 1940 |
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During the London Blitz, the underground Cabinet War Room suffers a hit when a bomb explodes on the Clive Steps. |
| 1941 |
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The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps. |
| 1950 |
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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 |
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The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss. |
| 1960 |
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Vice President Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy participate in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates. |
| 1961 |
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Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde's Folk City. |
| 1967 |
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Hanoi rejects a U.S. peace proposal. |
| 1969 |
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The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released. |
| 1972 |
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Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch. |
| 1977 |
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Israel announces a cease-fire on Lebanese border. |
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Born on September 26 |
| 1783 |
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Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), American pioneer. |
| 1783 |
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Jane Taylor, children's writer best known as the author of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. |
| 1887 |
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Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer who invented the "Bouncing Bombs" used to destroy German dams during World War II. |
| 1888 |
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T.S. Eliot, poet, critic, and dramatist whose work includes The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral. |
| 1898 |
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George Gershwin, composer who wrote many popular songs for musicals, along with his brother Ira. |
| 1949 |
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Jane Smiley, novelist (A Thousand Acres, Moo). |
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