What are the important events that happened on September 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 26: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 26 is the 270th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 13, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,727,308,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontagon’ day.
Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 125 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,297 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 26 Historical Events
- 1212 –Golden Bull of Sicily is certified as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
- 1687 –The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange’s invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
- 1792 –Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
- 1872 –The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
- 1907 –New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
- 1908 –Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1917 –World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
- 1983 –Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
- 1997 –A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
- 2000 –Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
Who were born on September 26?
- 1874 –Lewis Hine, American photographer and activist (d. 1940)
- 1888 –T. S. Eliot, American-born British writer and poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
- 1889 –Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
- 1891 –Charles Münch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
- 1892 –Robert Staughton Lynd, American historian (d. 1970)
- 1911 –Al Helfer, American radio sportscaster (d. 1975)
- 1939 –Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
- 1970 –Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress
- 1981 –Serena Williams, American tennis player
- 1982 –Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer
Who died on September 26?
- 1620 –Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
- 1764 –Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)
- 1802 –Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
- 1820 –Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
- 1952 –George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)
- 1968 –Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (b. 1918)
- 1990 –Alberto Moravia, Italian author (b. 1907)
- 2000 –Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
- 2008 –Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2010 –Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
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