September 26th 2014 - This Date in History.

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46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
1212 – Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
1345 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
1371 – Serbian–Turkish wars: The forces of the Ottoman sultan Murad I's lieutenant Lala Şahin Pasha and the Serbian army under the command of Vukašin Mrnjavčević and Jovan Uglješa clash at the Battle of Maritsa.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera
1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1786 – Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays' Rebellion.
1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 – the Norwegian football club SK Brann was founded.
1910 – Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and exiled.
1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
1923 – Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations.
1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don’t shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
1933 – Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger
1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1942 – The Holocaust: August Frank, a higher official of the SS concentration camp administration department, issues a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be "evacuated".
1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1954 – Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km2).
1971 – The Freetown Christiania was founded.
1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1980 – At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people died and 211 were injured.
1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.

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Today's Canadian Headline....

1976 SWEET KICKS FOR WORLD RECORD IN BIG O
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Alouette kicker Don Sweet notches his 17th and 18th consecutive field goals, setting a world record before 68,500 fans in the first football game played in Olympic Stadium; Sweet will run the string to 21 before missing.

1904
London England - Albert Henry George, Earl Grey 1851-1917 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from December 10, 1904 to October 12, 1911. An MP and former administrator of Rhodesia, Grey was a strong believer in the Empire and promoted imperial loyalty in his speeches. In 1909, he donated the Grey Cup to the championship of Canadian football.




In Other Events....

1995 Toronto Ontario - AT&T Canada and three Canadian banks pay $250. million to become new owners of long-distance carrier Unitel Communications Inc; two biggest shareholders, Canadian Pacific Ltd. and Rogers Communications Inc., drop out of deal.
1994 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau sworn in as Quebec's 26th Premier; after defeating Daniel Johnson in election.
1993 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Dave Munday takes his second plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel; 53-year-old diesel mechanic from Caistor Centre, Ontario, the first person to make two trips over the Falls; previous trip in 1985.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Angus Reid/Southam News release poll saying Yes forces rapidly losing ground in referendum battle.
1991 Guiane - European Space Agency rocket launches Canada's Anik-E1 (mass 2,977 kg) comsat from Kourou, French Guyana, aboard an Ariane 44P rocket.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Danek Mozdzenski's statue of Lester B. Pearson unveiled on Parliament Hill.
1990 Oka Quebec - Army officials take 34 men, 16 women and six children into custody from their stronghold in a drug treatment centre; most taken to military base at Farnham, Quebec; 78-day standoff ends.
1988 Seoul Korea - Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100 Metre Olympic Gold Medal and world record following a positive drug test; forced by the lOC to return the medal and disqualified from the games.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park extends $500,000 line of credit to ailing publisher McClelland & Stewart.
1984 California - Walter Pidgeon 1897-1984 dies at age 87; born Sept. 23, 1897 in Saint John, NB; TV/movie actor, singer; a major star for MGM, his movie career lasted from 1925 to 1978, best known for his performances in Madame Curie, Forbidden Planet, Mrs. Miniver.
1981 Moscow Russia - Canada signs five-year agricultural agreement with USSR; scientific cooperation, crop data exchange; Canada-Soviet Commission on agricultural issues founded.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post opens the National Postal Museum.
1972 Moscow Russia - Canadian NHL All Stars fight back to tie series, defeating the Soviet team 4-3 in the third game in the USSR; series now tied 3-3 with one tie.
1970 New York City - Anne Murray's hit song Snowbird peaks at #8 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1969 Manicouagan Quebec - Hydro-Quebec names Manic 5 power dam the Daniel Johnson Dam in honour of late Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson 1915-1968.
1969 Manicouagan Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 (père) dies after visit to open Hydro Quebec's Manic 5 power dam; succeeded by Jean-Jacques Bertrand as Union Nationale Premier.
1966 New York City - Two FLQ members go on hunger strike in New York.
1963 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists hold up a branch of the Royal Bank in Montreal.
1960 United Nations, New York - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 asks Soviet Union to resume disarmament negotiations; offers proposals for world peace; in address to UN General Assembly.
1958 Yukon - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 the first prime minister to visit the Yukon while in office.
1950 England - Sun turns blur over parts of the United Kingdom due to airborne sulphur particles from forest fires in Northern Alberta and BC.
1939 London England - Britain asks Canada to train Commonwealth airmen.
1918 France/Belgium - General Sir Arthur Currie's Canadians lead final offensive against the Germans on the Western Front.
1896 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange lists first mining stocks.
1884 Montreal Quebec - St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway leased to the Canadian Pacific Railway for 999 years.
1851 Kingston Ontario - Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine 1807-1864 resigns as co-Premier of the Province of Canada; will be appointed Chief Justice of Lower Canada.
1842 Montreal Quebec - Robert Baldwin & Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine asked by Lord Elgin to form the Province of Canada's first liberal Executive Council; victory for Reformers, responsible government and French rights.
1826 Ottawa Ontario - Incorporation of Bytown; becomes City of Ottawa in 1855.
1819 Melville Island, NWT - Edward Parry anchors off Melville Island; first explorer to winter in the Arctic by choice.
1813 Amherstburg Ontario - William Henry Harrison's 4,500 US troops land near Fort Malden to move against Proctor up the Thames; beginning of American military rule in western Ontario for the remainder of the War of 1812.
1766 Quebec Quebec - Government passes regulations licensing the sale of alcohol.
1751 Halifax, Nova Scotia - 1,000 immigrants from Wurtemburg, Germany arrive.
1634 Quebec - Father Jean de Brébeuf baptizes the mother of an Indian chief.
1613 France - Samuel de Champlain tries to get support for colonization and exploration in France.

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