Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 26

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 * 1087 – William II, son of William the Conqueror, was crowned king of England.
 * 1493 – Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem, one of the Bulls of Donation, marking the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
 * 1907 – The British Colony of New Zealand officially became a dominion to reflect its political independence since the 1850s.
 * 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the Battle of Passchendaele, began near Ypres, Belgium.
 * 1928 – The Republic of China adopted Gwoyeu Romatzyh (designer pictured) as the official system for romanization of Mandarin Chinese.
 * 1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he supposedly shouted "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which became a nickname for FBI agents.
 * 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Army completed the Tallinn Offensive, driving German forces out of Estonia.
 * 1968 – The Beatles completed the recording of John Lennon's song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", regarded by all the band members as their favourite on the album The Beatles.
 * 1959 – The Cambodian–Vietnamese War formally ended with the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from the People's Republic of Kampuchea, a client state it had implemented to overthrow Democratic Kampuchea and the Khmer Rouge.
 * 1959 – Japan was struck by Typhoon Vera, the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country, causing damage in excess of US$261 million and more than 5,000 deaths.
 * 1983 – The racing yacht Australia II, captained by John Bertrand, won the America's Cup and ended the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the trophy.
 * 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy flew a wingpack powered by jet engines across the English Channel.
 * 2014 – Forty-three students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in Iguala, Mexico, were kidnapped and probably later killed.


 * Born/died: | Francis Daniel Pastorius |b|1651| Richard Grenville-Temple |b|1711| Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm |b|1723| Théodore Géricault |b|1791| Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford |b|1865| Edith Abbott |b|1876| Bertha De Vriese |b|1877| Vladimir Voinovich |b|1932 Henri Fertet |d|1943| Lynn Anderson |b|1947|  Leslie Morshead |d|1959| Jeanie Buss |b|1961| Ramang |d|1987

September 26


 * 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicated the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Rome to Venus, the mythical ancestor of his family.
 * 1580 – English explorer Francis Drake's galleon the Golden Hind (replica pictured) sailed into Plymouth, completing his circumnavigation of the globe.
 * 1928 – The Nationalist government of China adopted Gwoyeu Romatzyh as the official system for the romanization of Mandarin Chinese.
 * 1983 – Cold War: Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a potential nuclear war by identifying as a false alarm signals that appeared to indicate an impending U.S. missile attack.
 * 2010 – Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.