All About September 26th
Holidays, Horoscope and Trivia
September 26th Holidays
- European Day of Languages
- Johnny Appleseed Day
- Lumberjack Day
- National Better Breakfast Day
- National Compliance Officer Day
- National Dumpling Day
- National Pancake Day
- National Situational Awareness Day
- Shamu the Whale Day
- World School Milk Day
September 26th Horoscope is Libra
- Date range: September 23 – October 22
- Element: Air
- Quality: Cardinal
- Color: Pink, Green
- Ruler: Venus
- Lucky Numbers: 4, 6, 13, 15, 24
- Personality Traits: Cooperative, diplomatic, gracious, stable, common sense, social but upsets easily, holds grudges, plays the victim
- Famous Libras: Neve Cambell, Kate Winslet, Jesse Eisenberg, Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman, Matt Damon, Naomi Watts, Will Smith, Viggo Mortenson, Zac Effron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Clive Owen, Hillary Duff, Tim Robbins, John Krasinski, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alicia Silverstone, Susan Surandon, Eminem, Elisabeth Shue.
September 26th Trivia
- 1580 – Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
- 1789 – George Washington appoints the first cabinet of the United States government.
- 1820 – Daniel Boone, American explorer passes away.
- 1888 – T. S. Eliot, American/English publisher, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate was born in St. Louis, MO.
- 1948 – Olivia Newton-John, Singer-songwriter and actress who starred in Grease was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.’
- 1956 – Linda Hamilton, American actress was born in Salisbury, MD.
- 1959 – Typhoon Vera hits Japan killing about 5,000 people.
- 1980 – At the Oktoberfest terror bombing attack in Munich ,West Germany, 13 people die and 211 are injured.
- 1981 – Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
- 1981 – Serena Williams, American tennis player was born in Saginaw, MI.
- 2003 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter, guitarist passes away.
- 2008 – Paul Newman, American actor, director, race car driver, businessman, co-founded Newman’s Own passes away.
- 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
- 2018 – The news is taken over by Trump defending his Supreme Court nomination Kavanaugh even though three woman have now come forward to talk about his sexual assaults on them. [source]
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