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September 26
1777 - British forces occupied Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed America's first Secretary of State; John Jay was appointed American's first chief justice and Edmund Randolph the nation's first attorney general.
1820 - Frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri.
1914 - The Federal Trade Commission is established.
1950 - United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from North Korean forces.
1960 - Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the first televised presidential debate.
1986 - William H. Rehnquist is sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court and Antonin Scalia was sworn in as an associate justice of the high court.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, to replace the X rating.
1991 - Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Arizona, called Biosphere 2. (They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993.)
1996 - President Bill Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies.
2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election. Milosevic declared a runoff, a move that prompted mass protests leading to his ouster.
2003 - President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a two-day summit at Camp David.
2005 - Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. (England was sentenced to three years in prison; she ended up serving half that time.)
2005 - International weapons inspectors announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.
2007 - Myanmar began a violent crackdown on protests, beating and dragging away dozens of monks.
2011 - Ending weeks of political brinkmanship, Congress advanced legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown. President Barack Obama appeared at a town hall meeting in Mountain View, California, hosted by the social networking company LinkedIn; the president plugged his jobs agenda in fielding questions on the employment picture, education, Medicare and Social Security.
2016 - Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton participated in their first debate of the presidential campaign at Hofstra University in New York; Clinton emphatically denounced Trump for keeping his personal tax returns and business dealings secret from voters while Trump repeatedly cast Clinton as a “typical politician.”
2020 - President Donald Trump nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to the Supreme Court, to fill the seat left vacant by the death of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Barrett would be confirmed the following month, days before the November election.)
Birthdays
29 - Megan McKenna (reality star)
38 - Zoe Perry (actress)
39 - Damian Priest (professional wrestler)
40 - Serena Williams (tennis player)
40 - Christina Milian (singer/actress)
40 - Asuka (professional wrestler)
42 - Mark Famiglietti (actor)
49 - Melanie Paxson (actress)
53 - Ben Shenkman (actor)
53 - Tricia O'Kelley (actress)
53 - Jim Caviezel (actor)
55 - Jillian Barberie (TV personality)
59 - Tracey Thorn (singer)
59 - Patrick Bristow (actor)
59 - Melissa Sue Anderson (actress)
65 - Linda Hamilton (actress)
69 - James Keane (actor)
73 - Olivia Newton-John (singer/actress)
75 - Mary Beth Hurt (actress)
76 - Bryan Ferry (singer)
77 - Anne Robinson (TV host)
79 - Kent McCord (actor)
96 - Bobby Shantz (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - September 26
1919 - The St. Louis Browns defeated the New York Yankees 6-2 in a game that lasted just 55 minutes.
1961 - Roger Maris hits his 60th home run of the season, tying Babe Ruth's single-season MLB record.
1962 - Maury Wills (LA Dodgers) became the first player to steal 100 bases. He ended the season with 104.
1973 - Wilt Chamberlain signs a contract to play for the ABA's San Diego Conquistadors.
1998 - Mark McGwire hit home runs 67 and 68 for the season.
1998 - Dennis Eckersly (Boston Red Sox) appeared in his 1,071st game.
2012 - The National Football League and the NFL Referees Association reached an agreement to end an ongoing referee lockout. On June 4, 2012, the NFL had announced it would be hiring replacement officials after a failed attempts to resolve a labor dispute.
1777 - British forces occupied Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed America's first Secretary of State; John Jay was appointed American's first chief justice and Edmund Randolph the nation's first attorney general.
1820 - Frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri.
1914 - The Federal Trade Commission is established.
1950 - United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from North Korean forces.
1960 - Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the first televised presidential debate.
1986 - William H. Rehnquist is sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court and Antonin Scalia was sworn in as an associate justice of the high court.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new rating, NC-17, to replace the X rating.
1991 - Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Arizona, called Biosphere 2. (They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993.)
1996 - President Bill Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies.
2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election. Milosevic declared a runoff, a move that prompted mass protests leading to his ouster.
2003 - President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a two-day summit at Camp David.
2005 - Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. (England was sentenced to three years in prison; she ended up serving half that time.)
2005 - International weapons inspectors announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.
2007 - Myanmar began a violent crackdown on protests, beating and dragging away dozens of monks.
2011 - Ending weeks of political brinkmanship, Congress advanced legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown. President Barack Obama appeared at a town hall meeting in Mountain View, California, hosted by the social networking company LinkedIn; the president plugged his jobs agenda in fielding questions on the employment picture, education, Medicare and Social Security.
2016 - Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton participated in their first debate of the presidential campaign at Hofstra University in New York; Clinton emphatically denounced Trump for keeping his personal tax returns and business dealings secret from voters while Trump repeatedly cast Clinton as a “typical politician.”
2020 - President Donald Trump nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to the Supreme Court, to fill the seat left vacant by the death of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Barrett would be confirmed the following month, days before the November election.)
Birthdays
29 - Megan McKenna (reality star)
38 - Zoe Perry (actress)
39 - Damian Priest (professional wrestler)
40 - Serena Williams (tennis player)
40 - Christina Milian (singer/actress)
40 - Asuka (professional wrestler)
42 - Mark Famiglietti (actor)
49 - Melanie Paxson (actress)
53 - Ben Shenkman (actor)
53 - Tricia O'Kelley (actress)
53 - Jim Caviezel (actor)
55 - Jillian Barberie (TV personality)
59 - Tracey Thorn (singer)
59 - Patrick Bristow (actor)
59 - Melissa Sue Anderson (actress)
65 - Linda Hamilton (actress)
69 - James Keane (actor)
73 - Olivia Newton-John (singer/actress)
75 - Mary Beth Hurt (actress)
76 - Bryan Ferry (singer)
77 - Anne Robinson (TV host)
79 - Kent McCord (actor)
96 - Bobby Shantz (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - September 26
1919 - The St. Louis Browns defeated the New York Yankees 6-2 in a game that lasted just 55 minutes.
1961 - Roger Maris hits his 60th home run of the season, tying Babe Ruth's single-season MLB record.
1962 - Maury Wills (LA Dodgers) became the first player to steal 100 bases. He ended the season with 104.
1973 - Wilt Chamberlain signs a contract to play for the ABA's San Diego Conquistadors.
1998 - Mark McGwire hit home runs 67 and 68 for the season.
1998 - Dennis Eckersly (Boston Red Sox) appeared in his 1,071st game.
2012 - The National Football League and the NFL Referees Association reached an agreement to end an ongoing referee lockout. On June 4, 2012, the NFL had announced it would be hiring replacement officials after a failed attempts to resolve a labor dispute.