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Historical Events -  September 26

BC 46: Julius Caesar dedicated a temple to his legendary ancestor Venus Genetrix.

1777: American Revolutionary War: British troops invaded Philadelphia.

1905: Albert Einstein published the first article on the special theory of relativity.

1910: Indian journalist Swadeshbhimani Ramakrishna Pillai was arrested and deported for criticizing the Travancore government.

1950: Indonesia joined the United Nations.

1954: Toya Maru was swept away by a storm in Japan. 1,172 people died.

1973: The Concorde (turbojet passenger airliner), which travels faster than sound, crossed the Atlantic Ocean in record time without stopping.

1984: Britain and China agreed that Hong Kong would revert to Chinese rule when the lease expires in 1997.

1990: Ranganath Mishra became the 21st Chief Justice of India.

 

Famous Birthdays– September 26

1820: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, an Indian educator, and social reformer.

1849: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Nobel Prize-winning Russian scientist.

1858: Manilal Nathubhai Trivedi, Indian author.

1870: Christian X, King of Denmark.

1876: Ghulam Kabir Nairang, Indian poet, lawyer, and politician.

1888: T. S. Eliot, American-born British poet, playwright, critic, and Nobel laureate.

1889: Martin Heidegger, a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition of philosophy.

1894: Acharya Shankar Dattatreya Javadekar, Indian commentator and philosopher.

1909: Bill France Sr., founder of NASCAR.

1918: Eric Morley, a British businessman, and the founder of the Miss World pageant.

1923: Dev Anand, Indian Hindi film actor, producer, director.

1927: James Robert Cade, an American physician, university professor, research scientist, and inventor.

1932: Manmohan Singh, an Indian economist, academic, and politician who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India.

1943: Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer.

1981: Serena Williams, American tennis player.

 

Death Anniversaries – September 26

1902: Levi Strauss, a German-born American businessman, founder of the Levi Strauss Company.

1952: George Santayana, a Spanish philosopher.

1954: Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai, an Indian Tamil poet.

1956: Laxmanrao Kirloskar, an Indian industrialist.

1977: Uday Shankar, Indian dancer.

1989: Hemant Kumar, Indian singer, composer, and producer.

2008: Paul Newman, American actor.

 

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