26 September

The **26t o September** is the 269t day o the year (270t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 96 days bidin.

## Events

* 1087 - William II o Ingland is crouned.
* 1345 - Friso-Hollandic Wars: The Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle o Warns.
* 1580 - Francis Drake completes his circumnavigation o the globe.
* 1789 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the first Unitit States Secretar o State.
* 1860 - Ecuador adopts its current banner.
* 1907 - New Zealand an Newfoundland become Dominions o the Breetish Empire.
* 1933 - A hurricane hits Tampico, Mexico, killin 1,000 fowk.
* 1934 - The steamship "RMS Queen Mary" is launched.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Breetish passenger steamer "Avoceta" is torpedoed bi a German U-boat aff the Azores, killin 123 fowk.
* 1944 - Warld War II: Launch o Operation Market Garden.
* 1950 - NATO admits Wast Germany as a member.
* 1950 - Indonesie jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1954 - Japanese railwey ferry "Toya Maru" sinks durin a typhoon, killin 1,172 fowk.
* 1960 - Fidel Castro propales Cuba's support for the Soviet Union.
* 1960 - First telly debate atween candidates for Preses o the Unitit States: John F. Kennedy an Richard Nixon.
* 1962 - The Republic o Yemen is declarit.
* 1969 - The Beatles release thair Abbey Road album.
* 1973 - The Concorde aircraft crosses the Atlantic Ocean in record time.
* 1980 - A terrorist attack on the Munich Oktoberfest kills 13 fowk.
* 1984 - The Unitit Kinrick agrees tae the haundower o Hong Kong tae the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae on 1 Julie 1997.
* 1992 - A Nigerie troop transporter crashes shortly efter tak-aff frae Lagos, killin 163 sodgers.
* 1997 - An Airbus A-300 plane crashes in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesie, killin 234 fowk.
* 1997 - A major yirdquauk strikes central Italy.
* 2000 - The Ship "MS Samina" sinks aff Paros in the Aegean Sea, killin 80 fowk.
* 2001 - The Pols leid Wikipaedia is creatit.
* 2002 - An owerloadit ferry capsizes off The Gambie, killin 950 fowk.
* 2006 - Shinzo Abe becomes Prime meenister o Japan.
* 2007 - Yasuo Fukuda becomes Prime meenister o Japan.
* 2009 - Typhoon Ketsana strikes Sooth-East Asie, incluidin Vietnam an the Philippines, killin at least 700 fowk.
* 2014 - 43 male students are kidnapped in Iguala, Mexico.
* 2017 - Scots baund Runrig propales a farewell tour for the simmer o 2018.
* 2017 - It is propaled that the Republic o Ireland is tae hauld a referendum on abortion in 2018.
* 2017 - Saudi Arabie propales an end o the ban on weemen drivin.
* 2019 - New Sooth Wales becomes the last state in Australie tae legalise abortion.
* 2020 - US Preses Donald Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett tae succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Coort o the Unitit States.

## Births

* 1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Roushie pheesiologist (d. 1936)
* 1870 - Christian X, Keeng o Denmark an Iceland (d. 1947)
* 1888 - T. S. Eliot, American-Inglis poet (d. 1965)
* 1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
* 1897 - Pape Paul VI (d. 1978)
* 1898 - George Gershwin, American componer (d. 1937)
* 1914 - Jack LaLanne, American fitness instructor an actor (d. 2011)
* 1923 - Dev Anand, Indian film producer, director an actor (d. 2011)
* 1927 - Enzo Bearzot, Italian fitbawer an manager (d. 2010)
* 1932 - Donna Douglas, American actress (d. 2015)
* 1932 - Manmohan Singh, umwhile Prime meenister o Indie
* 1945 - Bobby Clark, Scots fitbawer
* 1948 - Dame Olivia Newton-John, Australian sangster an actress
* 1952 - George Wood, Scots fitbawer
* 1956 - Linda Hamilton, American actress
* 1960 - Stephen Kerr, Scots politeecian
* 1963 - Adam Hunter, Scots gowfer (d. 2011)
* 1965 - Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian businessman an politeecian, umwhile Preses o Ukraine
* 1972 - Beto O'Rourke, American politeecian
* 1976 - Michael Ballack, German fitbawer
* 1981 - Serena Williams, American profeesional tennis player an umwhile Warld No. 1.
* 1983 - Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese fitbawer
* 1987 - Kim Yo-jong, North Korean politeecian, sister o Kim Jong-un

## Daiths
* 1290 - Margaret, Maid o Norawa (b. 1283)
* 1820 - Daniel Boone, American pioneer (b. 1734)
* 1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (b. 1790)
* 1915 - Keir Hardie, Scots politeecian (b. 1856)
* 1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian componer (b. 1881)
* 1973 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
* 1978 - Manne Siegbahn, Swadish pheesicist (b. 1886)
* 1989 - Jimmy Delaney, Scots fitbawer (b. 1914)
* 1990 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist an jurnalist (b. 1907)
* 2008 - Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
* 2010 - Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
* 2019 - Jacques Chirac, Preses o Fraunce (b. 1932)

## Halidays
* European Day o leids
* Dominion Day (New Zealand)
* Republic Day (Yemen)