TODAY IN HISTORY, SEPTEMBER 26TH

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, September 26th!

1580	Sir Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, aboard the Golden Hind, after a 33-month voyage to circumnavigate the globe.
1777	The British army launches a major offensive, capturing Philadelphia.
1786	France and Britain sign a trade agreement in London.
1789	Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s first secretary of state and John Jay the first chief justice. Thomas Jefferson
1820	The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85.
1826	The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus.
1829	Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.
1864	General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men assault a Federal garrison near Pulaski, Tennessee.
1898	Composer George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1901	Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death..
1913	The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal.
1914	The Federal Trade Commission is established to foster competition by preventing monopolies in business.
1918	German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62.
1937	Bessie Smith, known as the ‘Empress of the Blues,’ dies in a car crash in Mississippi.
1940	During the London Blitz, the underground Cabinet War Room suffers a hit when a bomb explodes on the Clive Steps.
1941	The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps.
1950	General Douglas MacArthur’s American X Corps, fresh from the Inchon landing, links up with the U.S. Eighth Army after its breakout from the Pusan Perimeter.
1955	The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss.
1957	The musical “West Side Story” opened on Broadway.
1960	Vice President Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy participate in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates.
1961	Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde’s Folk City.
1967	Hanoi rejects a U.S. peace proposal.
1969	The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released.
1972	Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch.
1977	Israel announces a cease-fire on Lebanese border.
1983	In the USSR Stanislav Petrov disobeys procedures and ignores electronic alarms indicating five incoming nuclear missiles, believing the US would launch more than five if it wanted to start a war. His decision prevented a retaliatory attack that would have begun a nuclear war between the superpowers. Stanislav Petrov
1984	The UK agrees to transfer sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
1986	William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as an associate justice.