Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
September 26
| 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 | Vice President 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. | |
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Born on September 26 |
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| 1783 | Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), American pioneer. | |
| 1783 | Jane Taylor, children's writer best known as the author of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. | |
| 1887 | Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer who invented the "Bouncing Bombs" used to destroy German dams during World War II. | |
| 1888 | T.S. Eliot, poet, critic, and dramatist whose work includes The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral. | |
| 1898 | George Gershwin, composer who wrote many popular songs for musicals, along with his brother Ira. | |
| 1949 | Jane Smiley, novelist (A Thousand Acres, Moo). | |
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