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46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.

715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.

1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.

1687 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.

1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.

1783 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania created

1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.

1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.

1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each becomes a dominion of the British Empire.

1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.

1934 - Steamship RMS ''Queen Mary'' is launched.

1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.

1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.

1954 - Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.

1957 - West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins opens on Broadway.

1960 - In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

1960 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.

1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut.

1962 - Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.

1969 - The Chicago Seven trial begins.

1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.

1969 - The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.

1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).

1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.

1981 - Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.

1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.

1983 - Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.

1984 - United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong.

1986 - Metallica Bassist Cliff Burton killed in tour bus accident.

1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.

1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.

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 - ''Express Samina'', capsized after running aground near the isle of Paros. 82 people where killed.

2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.

2002 - Thirty people are killed in a shooting by terrorists at a temple in Gandhinagar, India.

2006 - Diet of Japan elects Shinzō Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Junichiro Koizumi.

2006 - Charity concert by Green Day and U2 at New Orleans Superdome

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1406 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)

1711 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)

1750 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810)

1758 - Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.

1774 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1847)

1791 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)

1840 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)

1865 - Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, British pilot

1869 - Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)

1870 - King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)

1871 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)

1873 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)

1873 - Wacław Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940)

1874 - Lewis Hine, American photographer and social activist (d. 1940)

1875 - Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (d. 1959)

1876 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (d. 1957)

1877 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)

1877 - Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)

1886 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)

1887 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (d. 1958)

1887 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (d. 1967)

1887 - Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)

1888 - J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)

1888 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)

1891 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)

1893 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929)

1895 - George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)

1897 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)

1897 - Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)

1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)

1905 - Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican Baseball Player

1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)

1907 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)

1909 - Bill France, Sr., American founder of NASCAR (d. 1992)

1914 - Jack LaLanne, American fitness advocate

1917 - Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician, leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada (d. 1976)

1923 - Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer

1925 - Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982)

1926 - Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)

1927 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (d. 1994)

1930 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)

1932 - Richard Herd, American actor

1932 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India

1932 - Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident

1933 - Donna Douglas, American actress

1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist

1937 - Jerry Weintraub, American film producer

1941 - Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor

1942 - Kent McCord, American actor

1943 - Ian Chappell, Australian test cricket player and broadcaster

1944 - Anne Robinson, British television host

1945 - Bryan Ferry, British singer

1945 - Gal Costa, Brazilian singer

1945 - Louise Beaudoin, Quebec politician

1946 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)

1946 - Christine Todd Whitman, American politician

1947 - Lynn Anderson, American singer

1948 - Olivia Newton-John, British-born Australian singer and actress

1949 - Clodoaldo, Brazilian football player

1949 - Jane Smiley, American novelist

1951 - Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician

1953 - Aivars Lembergs, Latvian politician

1954 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager and television host

1956 - Linda Hamilton, American actress

1956 - Steve Butler, American racecar driver

1959 - Rich Gedman, American baseball player

1961 - Will Self, British author

1961 - Cindy Herron, American singer (En Vogue)

1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress

1962 - Peter Foster, Australian con-man

1963 - Lysette Anthony, British actress

1964 - Nicki French, British singer

1965 - Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress

1966 - Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and television hostess

1967 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)

1968 - James Caviezel, American actor

1969 - Paul Warhurst, English football player

1969 - Anthony Kavanagh, Québécois comedian, actor and singer

1972 - Ras Kass, American rapper

1972 - Shawn Stockman, American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)

1973 - Chris Small, Scottish snooker player

1974 - Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player

1975 - Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)

1976 - Michael Ballack, German footballer

1977 - Kaylynn, porn star

1978 - Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Boston Marathon record holder

1979 - Fuifui Moimoi, New Zealand (Tongan) Rugby League Player

1979 - Jon Harley, English footballer

1980 - Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver

1980 - Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Swedish professional ice hockey players

1981 - Christina Milian, American actress and singer

1981 - Serena Williams, American tennis player

1983 - Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer

1986 - Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress

1987 - Rosie Munter, Swedish singer and model (Play)

1988 - Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater

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1417 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)

1468 - Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)

1501 - Džore Držić, Croatian writer (b. 1461)

1620 - Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)

1626 - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)

1716 - Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)

1763 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)

1764 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)

1802 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and military officer (b. 1754)

1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)

1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)

1877 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)

1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)

1904 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)

1937 - Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)

1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)

1947 - Hugh Lofting, British writer (b. 1886)

1951 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)

1952 - George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)

1965 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)

1968 - Daniel Johnson, Sr, politician, premier of Québec (b. 1915)

1972 - Charles Correll, American radio actor (b. 1890)

1973 - Ralph Earnhardt, Race car driver (b. 1923)

1973 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)

1976 - Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

1978 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)

1983 - Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (b. 1907)

1984 - John Facenda, American broadcaster and sports announcer (b. 1913)

1990 - Alberto Moravia, Italian author

1991 - Billy Vaughn, orchestra leader (b. 1919)

1998 - Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)

2000 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)

2000 - Baden Powell, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)

2003 - Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)

2003 - Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)

2004 - Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)

2006 - Muharrem Qena, Kosovar actor, director and singer (b. 1930)

2006 - Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)

2006 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)

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Calendar of Saints - Sts. Cosmas and Damian.

Also see September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

Discordianism - Bureflux.

European Day of Languages.

French Republican Calendar - Cheval (Horse) Day, fifth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.