SEPTEMBER
26
What Happened Today in History
Historical Events
1580 Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind
1687 Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks, damaging the Parthenon
1687 City council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution
1815 Russia, Prussia and Austria sign the Holy Alliance
1901 Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana)
1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1968 "Oliver!" directed by Carol Reed and starring Mark Lester and Ron Moody premieres in London (Best Picture 1969)
Today in Music
1969 Apple Records releases The Beatles 11th studio album "Abbey Road", their final recordings as a quartet; tops the charts in 11 countries
Today in Sport
1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race - 1st non-US winner
Do you know this fact about today?Did You Know?
Cuban leader Fidel Castro delivers a 4 hour and 29 minute long speech at the United Nations
Today in History in 1960
Would You Believe?
Soviet military officer Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error
Today in History in 1983