TRIVIA FOR SEPTEMBER 26TH--------------- 1.1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth. 2. 1777 – American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia 3. 1786 – Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays Rebellion. 4.1789 – 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. 5. 1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City. 6. 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins. 7. 1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins. 8.1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, Don’t shoot, G-Men!, which becomes a nickname for FBI agents. 9. 1933 – Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger 10.1942 – 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. 11.1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails. 12.1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces. 13.1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. 14.1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cubas support for the U.S.S.R. 15.1969 – – At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people died and 211 were injured. 16. 1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released. 17.1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter. 18.1983 – 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. 19.2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
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