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Events on September 26

• 1580 Sir Francis Drake returns to England after his three-year circumnavigation of the globe.
• 1887 Emil Berliner from Hanover patents a gramophone that uses records as sound carriers.
• 1905 Albert Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity in Annalen der Physik.
• 1923 Chancellor Gustav Stresemann ends the passive resistance in the Ruhr struggle.
• 1957 The world premiere of the musical West Side Story takes place at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. The music is by Leonard Bernstein, the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and the book by Arthur Laurents based on an idea by choreographer Jerome Robbins.
• 1960 For the first time during a presidential election campaign in the United States, two candidates, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, face each other in a televised debate.
• 1969 In the United Kingdom, Abbey Road is released – the last album recorded together by the Beatles. The photo on the album cover, taken by Iain MacMillan, further fuels the 'Paul is dead' conspiracy theory.
• 1972 As a consequence of the attack at the Olympic Games in Munich, the Border Protection Group 9 (GSG 9) is founded in Germany as a special unit for counter-terrorism.
• 1980 A right-wing extremist bomb attack on the Munich Oktoberfest claims 13 dead and 218 injured, among them many seriously injured.
• 1983 Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov prevents a nuclear war by refusing, contrary to the indications of his electronic early warning system, to consider an apparent missile attack by the USA on the USSR as real.
• 1987 Thomas Gottschalk hosts the television show Wetten, dass..? for the first time at the Hofer Freiheitshalle.
• 2022 In the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, both pipeline strings of Nord Stream 1 and one of the two pipeline strings of Nord Stream 2 are blown up in sections near Bornholm.

Born on September 26

• 1870 Christian X., King of Denmark
• 1871 Winsor McCay, American caricaturist and comic artist
• 1886 Archibald Vivian Hill, British physiologist, Nobel laureate
• 1913 Berthold Beitz, German entrepreneur, manager, sports official, and Righteous Among the Nations
• 1930 Fritz Wunderlich, German opera singer
• 1941 Vadim Glowna, German actor, director, screenwriter, and film producer
• 1950 Rolf Töpperwien, German sports reporter
• 1960 Uwe Bein, German football player
• 1980 Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 Niko Gießelmann, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „26. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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