September 26: European Day of Languages; Day of the National Flag in Ecuador (1860); Dominion Day in New Zealand (1907)
The Parthenon
- 1087 – William II, son of William the Conqueror, was crowned King of England.
- 1687 – The Parthenon (pictured) in Athens was partially destroyed during an armed conflict between the Venetians under Francesco Morosini and Ottoman forces.
- 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the Third Battle of Ypres, began near Ypres, Belgium.
- 1983 – Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a possible worldwide nuclear war by deliberately certifying what otherwise appeared to be an impending attack by the United States as a false alarm.
- 2010 – Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan.
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