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Historical Events
on September 26th
- Lead Story
- First Kennedy-Nixon debate,1960
- American Revolution
- Congress elects agents to negotiate treaty with France,1776
- Automotive
- First day of work at the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation,1928
- Civil War
- Battle at Pilot Knob, Missouri,1864
- Cold War
- Anti-censorship law approved by Soviet legislature,1989
- Crime
- Mistrial declared in Phil Spector murder case,2007
- Disaster
- Ferry sinks off Gambian coast,2002
- General Interest
- Drake circumnavigates the globe,1580
- Bernstein's West Side Story opens,1957
- Shannon Lucid returns to Earth,1996
- Hollywood
- The Brady Bunch premieres,1969
- Screen legend Paul Newman dies,2008
- Literary
- T.S. Eliot is born,1888
- Music
- West Side Story premieres on Broadway,1957
- Old West
- The famous frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri,1820
- Presidential
- Kennedy and Nixon square off in a televised presidential debate,1960
- Sports
- Four 20-game winners,1971
- Vietnam War
- First American soldier killed in Vietnam,1945
- Nixon responds to critics,1969
- World War I
- Meuse-Argonne offensive opens,1918
- World War II
- Allies slaughtered by Germans in Arnhem,1944
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