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Sep 26, 1776: Congress elects agents to negotiate treaty with France
On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress elects Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane and Arthur Lee as agents of the diplomatic commission that will be sent to secure a formal alliance and negotiate a treaty between the United States and France.
Franklin, Deane and Lee were given formal instructions by the members of the Continental Congress as to what concessions they would be authorized to make in negotiating the treaty. First and foremost, they were instructed to tell the king of France, that if a treaty were signed, the United States would never form an allegiance with Great Britain and, if war between France and Great Britain were ever declared, the United States would defend France.
Covert French aid began filtering into the colonies soon after the outbreak of hostilities in 1775. Silas Deane, the Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, left for France on a secret mission on March 3, 1776. The Committee of Congress for Secret Correspondence, consisting of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Harrison, John Dickinson, John Hay and Robert Morris, instructed Deane to meet with French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, Count de Vergennes, to stress America's need for military stores and assure the French that the colonies were moving toward "total separation" from Great Britain.
Deane managed to negotiate for unofficial assistance from France in the form of ships containing military supplies and recruited the Marquis de Lafayette to share his military expertise with the Continental Army's officer corps. However, it was not until the arrival of the suave Benjamin Franklin and the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 that the French became convinced that it was worth backing the Americans in a formal treaty.
On February 6, 1778, the Treaties of Amity and Commerce and Alliance were signed; they were ratified by the Continental Congress in May 1778. One month later, war between Britain and France formally began when a British squadron fired on two French ships. During the American Revolution, French naval fleets proved critical in the defeat of the British, which was assured at the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781.
Sep 26, 1944: Allies slaughtered by Germans in Arnhem
On this day in 1944, Operation Market-Garden, a plan to seize bridges in the Dutch town of Arnhem, fails, as thousands of British and Polish troops are killed, wounded, or taken prisoner.
British Gen. Bernard Montgomery conceived an operation to take control of bridges that crossed the Rhine River, from the Netherlands into Germany, as a strategy to make "a powerful full-blooded thrust to the heart of Germany." The plan seemed cursed from the beginning. It was launched on September 17, with parachute troops and gliders landing in Arnhem. Holding out as long as they could, waiting for reinforcements, they were compelled to surrender. Unfortunately, a similar drop of equipment was delayed, and there were errors in locating the proper drop location and bad intelligence on German troop strength. Added to this, bad weather and communication confused the coordination of the Allied troops on the ground.
The Germans quickly destroyed the railroad bridge and took control of the southern end of the road bridge. The Allies struggled to control the northern end of the road bridge, but soon lost it to the superior German forces. The only thing left was retreat-back behind Allied lines. But few made it: Of more than 10,000 British and Polish troops engaged at Arnhem, only 2,900 escaped.
Claims were made after the fact that a Dutch Resistance fighter, Christiaan Lindemans, betrayed the Allies, which would explain why the Germans were arrayed in such numbers at such strategic points. A conservative member of the British Parliament, Rupert Allason, writing under the named Nigel West, dismissed this conclusion in his A Thread of Deceit, arguing that Lindemans, while a double agent, "was never in a position to betray Arnhem."
Winston Churchill would lionize the courage of the fallen Allied soldiers with the epitaph "Not in vain." Arnhem was finally liberated on April 15, 1945.
Sep 26, 1989: Anti-censorship law approved by Soviet legislature
In one of the most heartening indications that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's promise of political openness in Russia was becoming a reality, committees in the Soviet legislature pass a bill allowing the publication of books, newspapers, and magazines without government approval. The law was a break with the Soviet past, in which government censorship of the press was a fact of life.
Throughout the post-World War II period, censorship in the Soviet Union grew even stronger than during the pre-war years. Under the cloak of "protecting" the Russian citizenry from "decadent" Western ideas and "reactionary" ideologies, the Soviet government routinely censored the press. Newspapers were merely organs of the Soviet Communist Party. Books and magazine articles had to be approved prior to publication. Authors like Boris Pasternak, whose novel Dr. Zhivago was banned in 1956, found it impossible to publish in the Soviet Union. Censorship also extended to the arts and music.
In 1985, however, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Russia, promising what he called "glasnost"--a freer political atmosphere in the Soviet Union. In the following years, he freed political prisoners and even permitted Pasternak to be posthumously readmitted to the Soviet writers' union. In September 1989, a particularly important step was taken to restrict the government's power of censorship. Important committees in the Soviet legislature approved a new law to which Gorbachev soon gave his own approval. It permitted Soviet citizens to publish books, newspapers, and magazines without prior government approval. Some restrictions still existed--all publishers had to register with the government, and their publications could be suspended if they were judged to "promote war or racism, advocate ethnic or religious intolerance, or appeal for the violent overthrow or change of the existing state and public order."
Despite the restrictions, the 1989 law was evidence that Gorbachev was intent on making good his promise to open up the Soviet political system. Soviet journalists and writers celebrated the act, but Gorbachev's reforms to the Soviet system may have been too little, too late. In a little more than two years, economic and political turmoil in the Soviet Union destroyed his power base. In December 1991, he resigned as president and the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical
ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of
Pharsalus.
715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of
Compiègne.
1212 - Golden Bull of Sicily certified hereditary royal
title in Bohemia for Přemyslid dynasty.
1371 - Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey
1396 - Sultan Bajezid I beheads 100s of crusaders
1404 - Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established
1580 - Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the
world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind
1629 - Sweden & Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1655 - Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from
Swedish in Delaware
1680 - Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal
1687 - Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying
to eject Turks Parthenon damaged in war between Turks & Venetians
1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support
William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1733 - France, Spain & Sardinia sign anti-German
covenant
1771 - Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel,"
premieres in Paris
1772 - New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to
practice medicine
1783 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
1786 - England & France sign trade agreement
1789 - 4th US Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood of Mass
takes office
1789 - Jefferson appointed 1st US Sec of State; John Jay
becomes 1st US Chief Justice;
Ist US Chief Justice John JayIst US Chief Justice John Jay
1789 - Edmund J Randolph becomes 1st US Attorney General
1792 - Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien
Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of
the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1815 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign Holy Alliance
1824 - Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess)
& lives
1831 - Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator,"
premieres in NYC
1835 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di
Lammermoor," premieres in Naples
1861 - 2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at
Prestwick Club
1872 - The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was
established in New York City.
1874 - 1st Grand International Rifle match held
1876 - 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux)
1884 - Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract
workers, 7 killed
1887 - Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1890 - US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 cent
piece
1892 - 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band
(NJ)
Composer John Philip SousaComposer John Philip Sousa 1892 -
Diamond Match Co patented book matches
1895 - Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa,
Eritrea
1898 - Victor Herbert/Harry Smith' musical premieres in NYC
1901 - Boer General Botha fails to capture Fort Itala in
Natal
1901 - Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana)
1904 - Charles Kleins "Music Master," premieres in
NYC
1904 - Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada
1904 - GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband,"
premieres in NYC
1906 - Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6
inning game
1907 - NZ declares independence from UK
1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions
within the British Empire.
1908 - Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader
1914 - Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate
interstate commerce
1914 - Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
1916 - Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions
1917 - British assault on Menin-street, France
1918 - Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I
1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
1919 - US President Wilson hit by a heart attack
1921 - Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7
1923 - Stresemann government ends resistance against
occupiers in Ruhrgebied
1925 - 8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields
CC Matteson Ill
1925 - Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off
Sicily with 54 dead
1926 - JB Fagan's "And So to Bed," premieres in
London
1926 - Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes
& lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched
pennant
1927 - St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St
NYC
1929 - John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria
1933 - Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White," premieres
in NYC
1934 - British liner Queen Mary is launched
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi
Germany Adolf Hitler 1938 - Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government,
demanding Sudenten Land
1939 - German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed)
1940 - Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed
1940 - Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
1941 - Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev
1944 - British & Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek
(Arnhem)
1944 - Soviet forces occupy Estonia
1945 - All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1946 - 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June
1993
1947 - Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to
sponsor World Series
1948 - Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1950 - Australia wins Davis Cup tennis tournament
1950 - Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon
appears in England
1950 - Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st
appearance of year
1950 - UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean
capital of Seoul
1951 - Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in
Paris
1952 - Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant,
beating A's 5-2
1953 - Billy Hunter is last St Louis Browns player to homer
in a game
1953 - KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS/NBC)
begins broadcasting
1953 - Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski
1953 - US & Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in
Spain)
1954 - Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of
Tsugaru, 1172 die
1954 - KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins
broadcasting
1954 - KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins
broadcasting
1954 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open
1954 - Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about
1,600
1954 - WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins
broadcasting
1954 - WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins
broadcasting
1954 - A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will
play in Phila
1954 - Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey
Mantle plays shortstop
1955 - NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957 - "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden
Theater NYC for 734 perfs
1957 - Bernstein & Sondheim's musical "West Side
Story," premieres in NYC
1957 - Dag Hammarskjoeld re-elected secretary-general of UN
1957 - Musical "West Side Story," opens on
Broadway
1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1958 - Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th
America's Cup
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL
lefty
1959 - SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis
Cards, 4-0
1959 - Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing
the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing
1960 - 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place
(Chicago)
1960 - Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by
Fidel Castro)
1961 - "From the Second City" opens at Royale
Theater NYC for 87 performances
1961 - Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe
Ruth's record
1962 - LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases
(en route to 104)
1962 - TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies"
premieres on CBS
1962 - Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
1963 - 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways
bus to Mexico
1964 - Braves (25) & Phillies (18) set record by using
43 players in 9 inn
1965 - 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1965 - Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating
Washington, 2-1
1965 - Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of the
British Empire
1966 - "Staten Island," 1st icebreaker to enter SF
bay
1967 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Violin concert, premieres
in Moscow
Ex-soldier, drifter Lee Harvey OswaldEx-soldier, drifter Lee
Harvey Oswald 1968 - 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV
1968 - Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal
1968 - St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with
1.12 ERA
1968 - Theatre censorship ends in Britain
1969 - Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
1969 - Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia
1969 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1970 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County,
California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1971 - Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games
this season
1971 - Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1971 - WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1972 - American Museum of Immigration dedicated
1972 - Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
1973 - Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
1973 - Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2½ years)
1973 - Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego
Conquistadors
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the
Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends
at 3:15 AM
1976 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1976 - Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs
against Cleveland
1976 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf
1976 - Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
1977 - Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat
Patriots 30-27
1977 - Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate
"Skytrain" service, London to NY
1978 - RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of
rail service
1978 - NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules
that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
1979 - 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225
million
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed
1980 - Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending
"freedom flotilla"
1980 - Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
1981 - Houston Astro Nolan Ryan 5th no-hitter beats LA
Dodgers, 5-0
1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - "Doll's Life" closes at Mark Hellinger
Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1982 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 - Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field
goal
1983 - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st
non-US winner)
1983 - Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from
exploding Soyuz T-10
1983 - Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1983 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1983 - St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal
Expos, 3-0
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a
worldwide nuclear war.
1984 - 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea
Stadium
1984 - Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a
paternity suit
1984 - Britain & China initial agreement return Hong
Kong to China in 1997
1984 - Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
1984 - Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a
rookie with his 72nd
US President & Actor Ronald ReaganUS President &
Actor Ronald Reagan 1984 - President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South
Africa
1985 - Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
1986 - Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1986 - RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell)
1986 - William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of
Supreme Court
1986 - Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is
attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
1987 - Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to
28 games
1988 - Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold
failing drug test
1988 - NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
1988 - Polish communist party picks propaganda chief
Rakowski as new PM
1988 - US space shuttle STS-26 launched
1989 - Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
1989 - MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult
themes
1989 - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for
total destruction of Soviet & US chemical weapons
1990 - Motion Picture Association of America creates new
NC-17 rating
1991 - 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona
begins
Tennis Player Martina NavratilovaTennis Player Martina
Navratilova 1992 - Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3
1992 - Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die
1992 - Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk
of Fame
1992 - Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle
1992 - 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets,
Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
1993 - 30th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry,
England
1993 - Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning
1993 - Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium,
beating Brewers 6-4
1993 - Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1993 - Seattle's Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club
1994 - Estonia government of Laar flees
1994 - Switzerland bans racist propaganda
1995 - "George" magazine premieres, published by
John F Kennedy Jr
1995 - Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v
Western Prov)
1995 - Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in
Pakistan from 0-1
Publisher and Lawyer John F. Kennedy Jr.Publisher and Lawyer
John F. Kennedy Jr. 1996 - SF Giant Bobby Bonds is 2nd player to hit 40 HRs
& steal 40 bases
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
1997 - Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 56th HR of
1997
1997 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria
and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to
collapse.
2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000
protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 - M/S Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea
killing 80 passengers.
2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes
off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2007 - Shinzo Abe formally ends his term as Prime Minister
of Japan.
2008 - Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first
person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
2009 - Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
2012 - Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh,
Damascus
2012 - Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest
austerity measures
2012 - Japanese automakers suspend operations in China
1777 - Philadelphia was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War. 1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State. John Jay was appointed the first chief justice of the U.S. Samuel Osgood was appointed the first Postmaster-General. Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General. 1892 - "The King of Marches" was introduced to the general public. 1908 - Ed Eulbach of the Chicago Cubs became the first baseball player to pitch both games of a doubleheader and win both with shutouts. 1908 - In "The Saturday Evening Post" an ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared. 1914 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission was established. 1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front. 1950 - U.N. troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean Conflict. 1955 - The New York Stock Exchange suffered its worst decline since 1929 when the word was released concerning U.S. President Eisenhower's heart attack. 1960 - The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago, IL. 1962 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS-TV. 1964 - "Gilligan's Island" premiered on CBS-TV. The show aired for the last time on September 4, 1967. 1969 - "The Brady Bunch" series premiered on ABC-TV. 1980 - The Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April. 1981 - The Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in Everett, WA. 1984 - Britain and China initialed a draft agreement on the future of Hong Kong when the Chinese take over ruling the British Colony. 1985 - Shamu was born at Sea World in Orlando, FL. Shamu was the first killer whale to survive being born in captivity. 1986 - The episode of "Dallas" that had Bobby Ewing returning from the dead was aired. 1986 - William H. Rehnquist became chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court following the retirement of Warren Burger. 1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had created a new rating. The new NC17 rating was to keep moviegoers under the age of 17 from seeing certain films. 1991 - Four men and four women began their two-year stay inside the "Biosphere II." The project was intended to develop technology for future space colonies. 1991 - The U.S. Congress heard a plea from Kimberly Bergalis concerning mandatory AIDS testing for health care workers. 1993 - The eight people who had stayed in "Biosphere II" emerged from their sealed off environment. 1995 - The warring factions of Bosnia agreed on guidelines for elections and a future government. 1996 - Shannon Lucid returned to Earth after being in space for 188 days. she set a time record for a U.S. astronaut in space and in the world for time spent by a woman in space. 2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. The act states that an infant would be considered to have been born alive if he or she is completely extracted or expelled from the mother and breathes and has a beating heart and definite movement of the voluntary muscles. 2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded that Vojislav Kostunica had won Yugoslavia's presidential election and declared a runoff. The declared runoff prompted mass protests. 2001 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, the abandoned U.S. Embassy was stormed by protesters. It was the largest anti-Amercian protest since the terror attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, on September 11. 2001 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announced plans to formalize a cease-fire and end a year of fighting in the region.
1789 Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State. 1820 Frontiersman, Daniel Boone, died in Missouri. 1914 The Federal Trade Commission was established. 1950 United Nations troops recaptured Seoul, the capital of South Korea, from the North Koreans. 1960 Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took part in the first televised presidential debate. 1986 William H. Rehnquist was sworn as the 16th chief justice of the Supreme Court.
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http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/sep26.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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