History for September 26

History for September 26 - On-This-Day.com:
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) 1774, T.S. Eliot 1888, George Gershwin 1898


Winnie Mandela 1934, Christine Todd Whitman 1946, Serena Williams 1981 - Tennis player


1908 - In "The Saturday Evening Post" an ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared.


1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front.


1960 - The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago, IL.


1962 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS-TV.


1964 - "Gilligan's Island" premiered on CBS-TV. The show aired for the last time on September 4, 1967.


1969 - "The Brady Bunch" series premiered on ABC-TV.


1981 - The Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in Everett, WA.


2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. The act states that an infant would be considered to have been born alive if he or she is completely extracted or expelled from the mother and breathes and has a beating heart and definite movement of the voluntary muscles.