historic events on any 26 september?

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any world wide

Answer 1

http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/september_26.html

Answer 2

26 September 1917 was the opening day of the Battle of Polygon Wood. This was the fourth of eight phases in what becamse known as the Third Battle of Ypres (31 July-12 November 1917). The initial assault on 26 September 1917 was carried out by a force of 20 Infantry Divisions (each consisting of around 15,000-18,000 men), including the Australian Corps of 4 Divisions. Although not widely remembered today (outside WW1 buffs), the scale of battles such as Polygon Wood certainly set today's operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into context.

Also, on 26 September 1944, the Soviet Army occupied Estonia, while in Holland, the surviving troops of the British 1st Airborne Division were evacuated acorss the Lower Rhine, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem.

Answer 3

1815 The Holy Alliance is signed by Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Francis I of Austria ( formerly Holy Roman Emperor Francis II), and Frederick William III , King of Prussia.

1820 Death of US frontiersman Daniel Boone.

1903 Women get the vote in the Conneticut state elections.

1907 New Zealand becomes a Dominion

1945 Hungarian composer Bela Bartok dies.

1957 The first performance of the Bernstein-Sondheim musical West Side Story is given in New York

1984 Britain and China agree that Hong Kong will revert to Chinese rule when lease expires in 1997

1989 The last Vietnamese troops pull out of Cambodia.

Also 1937 The Empress of Blues, Bessie smith died. 1988 Ben johnson flew home from the Olympics after drug scandal. 1983 Austrailia win the Americas Cup with the yacht Austrailia II

Birthdays:
1888 T.S.Eliot
1895 George Raft
1898 George Gershwin
1945 Bryan Ferry
1948 Olivia Newton-John

Going further back, in 1687 the masterpiece of ancient Greek architecture, the Parthenon, became a casualty of war when Turkish forces besieged the Acropolis (using it as a powder magazine)and the attacking Venetian army scored a direct hit with a mortar bomb, the powder exploded blowing the roof off.



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Answer 4

On Sept 26, 1997, an Indonesian Airbus A-300 crashed near Medan, an Indonesian airport .

Answer 5

1875: Mary Dreier born (reformer: labor unions, WTUL; suffrage)

1876: Edith Abbott born (reformer, social worker, educator)

1893: Freda Kirchway born (educator, publisher)




1996 : Shannon Lucid returns to Earth

U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returns to Earth in the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis following six months in orbit aboard the Russian space station Mir.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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