BC 46: Julius Caesar dedicated a temple to his legendary ancestor Venus Genetrix.
SEPTEMBER 26
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26 September: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 26 September.
Year 1777
American Revolutionary War: British troops invaded Philadelphia.
Year 1905
Albert Einstein published the first article on the special theory of relativity.
Year 1910
Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
Year 1919
Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held.
Year 1931
At Lancashire, Gandhi sees textile workers hurt by Indian boycott but says home spinning must go on.
Year 1932
Gandhiji breaks fast on Indian government's acceptance of his demand regarding Harijans.
Year 1950
Indonesia joined the United Nations.
Year 1954
Toya Maru was swept away by a storm in Japan. 1,172 people died.
Year 1973
The Concorde (turbojet passenger airliner), which travels faster than sound, crossed the Atlantic Ocean in record time without stopping.
Year 1975
Constitution (39th Amendment) Bill 1975, placing election of the President, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Speaker of the Lok Sabha beyond the scrutiny of the judiciary, approved by Parliament.
Year 1979
Charan Singh launches a new party called the Lok Dal.
Year 1984
Britain and China agreed that Hong Kong would revert to Chinese rule when the lease expires in 1997.
Year 1985
P.T. Usha sets record for 100m (Women) in 11.39 seconds at Jakarta.
Year 1990
Ranganath Mishra became the 21st Chief Justice of India.
Born 1793
Rani Rashmoni, great nationalist and social worker, was born in Kona village, 24 Parganas (north), West Bengal. He was the father of Bengali prose and gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855.
Born 1820
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, an Indian educator, and social reformer.
Born 1849
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Nobel Prize-winning Russian scientist.
Born 1858
Manilal Nathubhai Trivedi, Indian author.
Born 1870
Christian X, King of Denmark.
Born 1876
Ghulam Kabir Nairang, Indian poet, lawyer, and politician.
Born 1888
T. S. Eliot, American-born British poet, playwright, critic, and Nobel laureate.
Born 1889
Martin Heidegger, a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition of philosophy.
Born 1894
Acharya Shankar Dattatreya Javadekar, Indian commentator and philosopher.
Born 1904
R. V. Jagirdar, famous Kannad play writer, was born.
Born 1909
Bill France Sr., founder of NASCAR.
Born 1918
Eric Morley, a British businessman, and the founder of the Miss World pageant.
Born 1923
Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
Born 1927
James Robert Cade, an American physician, university professor, research scientist, and inventor.
Born 1932
Manmohan Singh, an Indian economist, academic, and politician who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India.
Born 1943
Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer.
Born 1981
Serena Williams, American tennis player.
Born 1962
Chunky Pandey, Indian actor
Died 1902
Levi Strauss, a German-born American businessman, founder of the Levi Strauss Company.
Died 1952
George Santayana, a Spanish philosopher.
Died 1954
Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai, an Indian Tamil poet.
Died 1956
Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great social reformer, industrialist, patriot and founder of the Kirloskar Industries, passed away at the age of 88.
Died 1956
Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great social reformer, industrialist, patriot and founder of the Kirloskar Industries, passed away at the age of 88.
Died 1977
Uday Shankar (Chowdhury), producer and director of dance-based film 'Kalpana', passed away. He was the elder brother of Pandit Ravishankar. His main achievement was the blending of the Indian classical style with the Western Ballet and various folk dances.
Died 1989
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1920)
Died 2008
Paul Newman, American actor.