September 26 - This Day in History

September 26: General Interest
1960: First Kennedy-Nixon debate

For the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential candidates is shown on television. The presidential hopefuls, John F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator of Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon, the vice president of the United States, met in a Chicago studio to discuss U.S. domestic matters... read more


American Revolution
1776 : Congress elects agents to negotiate treaty with France
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-elects-agents-to-negotiate-treaty-with-france


Automotive
1928 : First day of work at the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-day-of-work-at-the-galvin-manufacturing-corporation


Civil War
1864 : Rebels begin attack against Fort Davidson, Missouri
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-at-pilot-knob-missouri


Cold War
1989 : Anti-censorship law approved by Soviet legislature
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/anti-censorship-law-approved-by-soviet-legislature


Crime
2007 : Mistrial declared in Phil Spector murder case
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mistrial-declared-in-phil-spector-murder-case


Disaster
2002 : Ferry sinks off Gambian coast
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ferry-sinks-off-gambian-coast


General Interest
1580 : Drake circumnavigates the globe
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/drake-circumnavigates-the-globe

1957 : Bernstein's West Side Story opens
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bernsteins-west-side-story-opens

1996 : Shannon Lucid returns to Earth
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shannon-lucid-returns-to-earth


Hollywood
1969 : The Brady Bunch premieres
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-brady-bunch-premieres

2008 : Screen legend Paul Newman dies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/screen-legend-paul-newman-dies


Literary
1888 : T.S. Eliot is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ts-eliot-is-born


Music
1957 : West Side Story premieres on Broadway
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/west-side-story-premieres-on-broadway


Old West
1820 : The famous frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-famous-frontiersman-daniel-boone-dies-in-missouri


Presidential
1960 : Kennedy and Nixon square off in a televised presidential debate
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-and-nixon-square-off-in-a-televised-presidential-debate


Sports
1971 : Four 20-game winners
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/four-20-game-winners


Vietnam War
1945 : First American soldier killed in Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-american-soldier-killed-in-vietnam

1969 : Nixon responds to critics
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-responds-to-critics


World War I
1918 : Meuse-Argonne offensive opens
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/meuse-argonne-offensive-opens


World War II
1944 : Allies slaughtered by Germans in Arnhem
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allies-slaughtered-by-germans-in-arnhem