HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Tuesday, September 26, the 269th day of 2017. There are 97 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails. 1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North

Korean forces. 1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon

in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172. 1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless. 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. 1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba’s support for the USSR 1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles,

is released. 1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County,

California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km2). 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the

Atlantic in record-breaking time. 1980 – At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people

died and 211 were injured. 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by

throwing his fifth no-hitter. 1983 – Soviet nuclear false alarm incident, military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike. 1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong

Kong 1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan,

Indonesia, airport, killing 234. 1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse. 2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits. 2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean

Sea killing 80 passengers. 2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000. 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel. 2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam,

Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.