September 26
1777 - British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State.
1820 - Frontiersman Daniel Boone died in Missouri.
1914 - The Federal Trade Commission was established.
1950 - United Nations troops recaptured Seoul, the capital of South Korea, from the North Koreans during the Korean War.
1954 - The Japanese commercial ferry Toya Maru sank during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, claiming more than 1,150 lives.
1960 - Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took part in the first televised presidential debate.
1986 - William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; Antonin Scalia was sworn in on the same day as the 103rd associate justice of the high court.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new film rating, NC-17, to replace the X rating.
1991 - Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Arizona, called Biosphere 2. They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993.
1996 - President Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies.
2003 - President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a two-day summit at Camp David.
2005 - Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury in Fort Hood, Texas, on six of seven counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
2008 - Hollywood screen legend and philanthropist Paul Newman died in Westport, Connecticut, at age 83.
2016 - Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton participated in their first debate of the presidential campaign at Hofstra University in New York.
2019 - As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh prepared for a public Senate hearing on an allegation from a California professor that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were teens, a third accusation of sexual misconduct came from a woman who said she saw Kavanaugh "consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature."
2020 - President Donald Trump nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to the Supreme Court, to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Barrett would be confirmed the following month.)
2021 - The Rolling Stones launched their pandemic-delayed "No Filter" tour in St. Louis without their drummer of nearly six decades, Charlie Watts, who had died in August at age 80.
2022 - NASA spacecraft Dart rammed an asteroid at blistering speed in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.
Birthdays
28 - Chloe Burrows (reality star)
31 - Megan McKenna (reality star)
32 - Ant Clemons (singer)
35 - Buddy Matthews (professional wrestler)
38 - Talulah Riley (actress)
40 - Zoe Perry (actress)
41 - Damian Priest (professional wrestler)
42 - Asuka (professional wrestler)
42 - Serena Williams (tennis player)
42 - Christina Milian (singer/actress)
44 - Mark Famiglietti (actor)
51 - Melanie Paxson (actress)
55 - Ben Shenkman (actor)
55 - Tricia O'Kelley (actress)
55 - Jim Caviezel (actor)
57 - Jillian Barberie (TV personality)
61 - Tracey Thorn (singer)
61 - Patrick Bristow (actor)
61 - Melissa Sue Anderson (actress)
62 - Cindy Herron (singer)
67 - Linda Hamilton (actress)
68 - Carlene Carter (singer)
71 - James Keane (actor)
77 - Mary Beth Hurt (actress)
78 - Bryan Ferry (singer)
79 - Anne Robinson (TV host)
81 - Kent McCord (actor)
82 - David Frizzell (actor)
98 - Bobby Shantz (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - September 26
1903 - Nebraska defeats Grand Island 64-0.
1908 - Nebraska opens the season with a 20-0 win over Peru State.
1919 - The St. Louis Browns defeated the New York Yankees 6-2 in a game that lasted 55 minutes. The game was the second game of a doubleheader.
1931 - Nebraska opens the season with a 44-6 win over South Dakota.
1942 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach Glenn Presnell with a 27-0 loss to Cockeye.
1953 - Nebraska and Illinois play to a 21-21 tie.
1959 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 32-12.
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 60th home run of the year, tying Babe Ruth's single-season major league record.
1962 - Maury Wills (LA Dodgers) became the first player to steal 100 bases. He ended the season with 104.
1964 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 26-21.
1970 - #8 Nebraska defeats Army 28-0.
1978 - New York District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that female sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms.
1981 - #3 Penn State defeats #15 Nebraska 30-24.
1981 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) became the first player to pitch five no-hitters with a 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1983 - The Australia II won the America's Cup. It was the first time in 132 years that a U.S. yacht lost the cup.
1987 - #2 Nebraska defeats #12 Arizona State 35-28.
1992 - #15 Nebraska defeats Arizona State 45-24.
1996 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants becomes the second player in MLB history with 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in the same season.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals extended his new single-season home run record by hitting his 67th and 68th homers of the year.
1998 - #2 Nebraska defeats #9 Washington 55-7.
2009 - #25 Nebraska defeats Lousiana-Lafayette 55-0 in the a game that marked the 300th consecutive sellout at Memorial Stadium.
2012 - The National Football League and the NFL Referees Association reached an agreement to end an ongoing referee lockout. On June 4, 2012, the NFL had announced it would be hiring replacement officials after a failed attempts to resolve a labor dispute.
2015 - Nebraska defeats Southern Mississippi 36-28.
2021 - Ryder Cup Golf, Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin: United States regain title beating Team Europe by a record, 19-9; Dustin Johnson 5-0-0.
1777 - British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State.
1820 - Frontiersman Daniel Boone died in Missouri.
1914 - The Federal Trade Commission was established.
1950 - United Nations troops recaptured Seoul, the capital of South Korea, from the North Koreans during the Korean War.
1954 - The Japanese commercial ferry Toya Maru sank during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, claiming more than 1,150 lives.
1960 - Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took part in the first televised presidential debate.
1986 - William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; Antonin Scalia was sworn in on the same day as the 103rd associate justice of the high court.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new film rating, NC-17, to replace the X rating.
1991 - Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Arizona, called Biosphere 2. They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993.
1996 - President Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies.
2003 - President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a two-day summit at Camp David.
2005 - Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury in Fort Hood, Texas, on six of seven counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
2008 - Hollywood screen legend and philanthropist Paul Newman died in Westport, Connecticut, at age 83.
2016 - Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton participated in their first debate of the presidential campaign at Hofstra University in New York.
2019 - As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh prepared for a public Senate hearing on an allegation from a California professor that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were teens, a third accusation of sexual misconduct came from a woman who said she saw Kavanaugh "consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature."
2020 - President Donald Trump nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to the Supreme Court, to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Barrett would be confirmed the following month.)
2021 - The Rolling Stones launched their pandemic-delayed "No Filter" tour in St. Louis without their drummer of nearly six decades, Charlie Watts, who had died in August at age 80.
2022 - NASA spacecraft Dart rammed an asteroid at blistering speed in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.
Birthdays
28 - Chloe Burrows (reality star)
31 - Megan McKenna (reality star)
32 - Ant Clemons (singer)
35 - Buddy Matthews (professional wrestler)
38 - Talulah Riley (actress)
40 - Zoe Perry (actress)
41 - Damian Priest (professional wrestler)
42 - Asuka (professional wrestler)
42 - Serena Williams (tennis player)
42 - Christina Milian (singer/actress)
44 - Mark Famiglietti (actor)
51 - Melanie Paxson (actress)
55 - Ben Shenkman (actor)
55 - Tricia O'Kelley (actress)
55 - Jim Caviezel (actor)
57 - Jillian Barberie (TV personality)
61 - Tracey Thorn (singer)
61 - Patrick Bristow (actor)
61 - Melissa Sue Anderson (actress)
62 - Cindy Herron (singer)
67 - Linda Hamilton (actress)
68 - Carlene Carter (singer)
71 - James Keane (actor)
77 - Mary Beth Hurt (actress)
78 - Bryan Ferry (singer)
79 - Anne Robinson (TV host)
81 - Kent McCord (actor)
82 - David Frizzell (actor)
98 - Bobby Shantz (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - September 26
1903 - Nebraska defeats Grand Island 64-0.
1908 - Nebraska opens the season with a 20-0 win over Peru State.
1919 - The St. Louis Browns defeated the New York Yankees 6-2 in a game that lasted 55 minutes. The game was the second game of a doubleheader.
1931 - Nebraska opens the season with a 44-6 win over South Dakota.
1942 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach Glenn Presnell with a 27-0 loss to Cockeye.
1953 - Nebraska and Illinois play to a 21-21 tie.
1959 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 32-12.
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 60th home run of the year, tying Babe Ruth's single-season major league record.
1962 - Maury Wills (LA Dodgers) became the first player to steal 100 bases. He ended the season with 104.
1964 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 26-21.
1970 - #8 Nebraska defeats Army 28-0.
1978 - New York District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that female sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms.
1981 - #3 Penn State defeats #15 Nebraska 30-24.
1981 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) became the first player to pitch five no-hitters with a 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1983 - The Australia II won the America's Cup. It was the first time in 132 years that a U.S. yacht lost the cup.
1987 - #2 Nebraska defeats #12 Arizona State 35-28.
1992 - #15 Nebraska defeats Arizona State 45-24.
1996 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants becomes the second player in MLB history with 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in the same season.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals extended his new single-season home run record by hitting his 67th and 68th homers of the year.
1998 - #2 Nebraska defeats #9 Washington 55-7.
2009 - #25 Nebraska defeats Lousiana-Lafayette 55-0 in the a game that marked the 300th consecutive sellout at Memorial Stadium.
2012 - The National Football League and the NFL Referees Association reached an agreement to end an ongoing referee lockout. On June 4, 2012, the NFL had announced it would be hiring replacement officials after a failed attempts to resolve a labor dispute.
2015 - Nebraska defeats Southern Mississippi 36-28.
2021 - Ryder Cup Golf, Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin: United States regain title beating Team Europe by a record, 19-9; Dustin Johnson 5-0-0.