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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 26 September.

1. Cabrillo discovers California
2. Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
3. British troops occupied Philadelphia in the American Revolution
4. Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl
5. Frontiersman Daniel Boone died in Missouri at the age of 85
6. Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
7. John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance in Plainfield NJ
8. Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
9. Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began during WWI
10. Shortest double header Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns Yanks already clinched pennant
11. UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
12. Yanks clinch pennant #19
13. Musical West Side Story opened on Broadway
14. 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place in Chicago
15. Roger Maris hits # 60 off Jack Fisher
16. Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
17. TV comedy The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS
18. Japan launches its 1st satellite in to space
19. The Staten Island is 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
20. Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
21. Anna Magnani dies at age 64
22. Sir Freddie Laker began cut-rate `Skytrain' service London to NY
23. Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
24. Australia II won the America's Cup yacht race
25. Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10

These famous people were born on 26 September.

1. 1729 - Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher, critic, Bible translator
2. 1774 - John Chapman, AKA Johnny Appleseed
3. 1888 - T.S. Eliot, in St Louis, Anglican (Waste Land) (Nobel 1948)
4. 1889 - Martin Heidegger, German Existentialist (Being & Time)
5. 1897 - Paul VI, 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
6. 1898 - George Gershwin, Bkln, composer (Rhapsody in Blue)
7. 1914 - Jack LaLanne, Exercise mogul
8. 1919 - Barbara Britton
9. 1926 - Julie London, in Cal, singer
10. 1927 - Patrick O'Neal, Actor
11. 1941 - Julio Iglesias, singer
12. 1942 - Kent McCord, Actor
13. 1946 - Mary Beth Hurt
14. 1947 - Lynn Anderson, Singer
15. 1948 - Olivia Newton-John, in Cambridge England - Lets Get Physical
16. 1948 - Vladimir Remek, 1st Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28)
17. 1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, in Cal