TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, September 26, the 269th day of 2018. There are 96 days left in the year.

715 Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiegne. 1087 William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100. 1212 Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Premyslid dynasty. 1493 Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera.

1580 Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth. 1687 The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange’s invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution. 1777 American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia. 1792 Marc- David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.

1905 Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.

1907 New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.

1910 Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled. 1923 Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic’s payment of reparations.

1941 The Military Police Corps is created as a permanent branch of the United States Army.

1950 Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces. 1953 Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ended.

1960 In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and 1969 John F. Kennedy. Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released. 1973 Concorde makes its first non- stop crossing of the Atlantic in record- breaking time. 1977 The first reactor Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is completed and the power plant opens for official usage, the first nuclear power plant in the ( then) Ukrainian SSR. 1981 Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no- hitter. 1983 Australia II wins the America’s Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club’s 132- year domination of the race. 2005 The PBS Kids Channel is shut down and replaced by a joint network with Comcast called Sprout. 2008 Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine- powered wing across the English Channel in a 10 minutes flight.