DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Sunday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2021. There are 96 days left in the year.
On this date:
1777: British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1789: Thomas Jefferson was confirmed by the Senate to be the first United States secretary of state; John Jay, the first chief justice; Edmund Randolph, the first attorney general.
1914: The Federal Trade Commission was established.
1933: The James Hilton novel “Lost Horizon” was first published in London by Macmillan & Co. Ltd. and in New York by William Morrow & Co.
1957: The musical “West Side Story” opened on Broadway.
1960: The first-ever debate between presidential nominees took place as
Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon faced off before a national TV audience from Chicago.
1964: The situation comedy “Gilligan’s Island” premiered on CBS-TV.
1986: William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.
1990: The Motion Picture Association of America announced it had created a new 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. (England was sentenced to three years in prison; she ended up serving half that time.)
Country singer David Frizzell is 80. Actor Kent Mccord (“Adam 12”) is 79. “The Weakest Link” host Anne Robinson is 77. Singer Bryan Ferry is 76. Actor Mary Beth Hurt is 75. Singer-actor Olivia Newton-john is 73. Actor James Keane (“Bulworth,” TV’S “The Paper Chase”) is 69. Singer-guitarist Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos is 67. Country singer Carlene Carter is 66. Actor Linda Hamilton is 65. Singer Cindy Herron of En Vogue is 60. Actor Melissa Sue Anderson (“Little House on the Prairie”) is 59. Singer Tracey Thorn of Everything But the Girl is 59. TV personality Jillian Barberie is 55. Guitarist Jody Davis of Newsboys is 54. Actor Jim Caviezel (“The Passion of the Christ”) is 53. Actor Tricia O’kelley (“The New Adventures of Old Christine”) is 53. Actor Ben Shenkman (“Royal Pains,” “Angels in America”) is 53. Singer Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men is 49. Music producer Dr. Luke is 48. Jazz trumpeter Nicholas Payton is 48. Singer and TV personality Christina Milian is 40. Actor Zoe Perry (“Young Sheldon”) is 38. Singer-songwriter Ant Clemons is 30.