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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