At this time in Historical past
At this time is Monday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2022. There are 96 days left within the yr.
At this time’s Spotlight in Historical past:
On Sept. 26, 1960, the first-ever debate between presidential nominees came about as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon confronted off earlier than a nationwide TV viewers from Chicago.
On this date:
In 1777, British troops occupied Philadelphia in the course of the American Revolution.
In 1888, poet T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1954, the Japanese business ferry Toya Maru sank throughout a storm within the Tsugaru Strait, claiming greater than 1,150 lives.
In 1986, William H. Rehnquist was sworn in because the sixteenth chief justice of the USA, whereas Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court docket as its 103rd member.
In 1990, the Movement Image Affiliation of America introduced it had created a brand new ranking, NC-17, to switch the X ranking.
In 1991, 4 males and 4 girls started a two-year keep inside a sealed-off construction in Oracle, Arizona, known as Biosphere 2. (They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993.)
In 1996, President Clinton signed a invoice making certain two-day hospital stays for brand new moms and their infants.
In 2003, President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin (POO’-tihn) opened a two-day summit at Camp David.
In 2005, Military Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a navy jury in Fort Hood, Texas, on six of seven counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib jail abuse scandal. (England was sentenced to 3 years in jail; she ended up serving half that point.)
In 2008, Hollywood display screen legend and philanthropist Paul Newman died in Westport, Connecticut, at age 83.
In 2016, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton participated of their first debate of the presidential marketing campaign at Hofstra College in New York; Clinton emphatically denounced Trump for preserving his private tax returns and enterprise dealings secret from voters whereas Trump repeatedly forged Clinton as a “typical politician.”
In 2020, President Donald Trump nominated choose Amy Coney Barrett, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to the Supreme Court docket, to fill the seat left vacant by the loss of life of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Barrett can be confirmed the next month, days earlier than the November election.) Greater than 150 individuals gathered within the Rose Backyard for Trump’s introduction of Barrett; few within the crowd wore masks to guard in opposition to the coronavirus, and within the days that adopted, a succession of attendees reported that they’d contracted COVID-19.
Ten years in the past: President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney each campaigned within the battleground state of Ohio. Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi, making his debut on the worldwide stage on the United Nations, mentioned he wouldn’t relaxation till the civil conflict in Syria was dropped at an finish.
5 years in the past: Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee introduced that he wouldn’t search reelection. Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore received the state’s Republican major for U.S. Senate, defeating incumbent Sen. Luther Unusual, who’d been backed by President Donald Trump. (Moore would lose the December particular election to Democrat Doug Jones.) Amid criticism that the federal response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was inadequate, the administration mentioned it was sending a flotilla of ships and hundreds extra navy personnel to the island to handle the rising humanitarian disaster there. Saudi Arabia introduced that girls can be allowed to drive there for the primary time, beginning in the summertime of 2018.
One yr in the past: The Rolling Stones launched their pandemic-delayed “No Filter” tour in St. Louis with out their drummer of almost six a long time, Charlie Watts, who had died in August at age 80. “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” a jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s hyperactive 2001 film, received the perfect new musical crown on the Tony Awards as Broadway appeared again to honor reveals that have been shuttered by COVID-19; “The Inheritance” by Matthew Lopez was named the perfect new play. George Frayne, whose band Commander Cody and His Misplaced Planet Airmen loved a cult following within the Nineteen Seventies with songs together with “Sizzling Rod Lincoln,” died at 77.
At this time’s Birthdays: Former baseball All-Star Bobby Shantz is 97. Nation singer David Frizzell is 81. Actor Kent McCord is 80. Tv host Anne Robinson is 78. Singer Bryan Ferry is 77. Actor Mary Beth Damage is 76. Actor James Keane is 70. Rock singer-musician Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos) is 68. Nation singer Carlene Carter is 67. Actor Linda Hamilton is 66. R&B singer Cindy Herron (En Vogue) is 61. Actor Melissa Sue Anderson is 60. Actor Patrick Bristow is 60. Rock musician Al Pitrelli is 60. Singer Tracey Thorn (Every thing However The Lady) is 60. TV persona Jillian Barberie is 56. Modern Christian guitarist Jody Davis (Newsboys) is 55. Actor Jim Caviezel (kuh-VEE’-zuhl) is 54. Actor Tricia O’Kelley is 54. Actor Ben Shenkman is 54. Actor Melanie Paxson is 50. Singer Shawn Stockman (Boyz II Males) is 50. Music producer Dr. Luke is 49. Jazz musician Nicholas Payton is 49. Actor Mark Famiglietti (fah-mihl-YEH’-tee) is 43. Singer-actor Christina Milian (MIHL’-ee-ahn) is 41. Tennis participant Serena Williams is 41. Actor Zoe Perry is 39. Singer/songwriter Ant Clemons is 31.