September 26: Day of the National Flag in Ecuador (1860); Dominion Day in New Zealand (1907)
Golden Hind
- 1493 – Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem, the last of the Bulls of Donation, marking the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
- 1580 – The Golden Hind (pictured) sailed into Plymouth, England, as explorer Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: Nazi official August Frank issued a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail on how Jews should be "evacuated".
- 1959 – Japan was struck by Typhoon Vera, the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country with US$600 million in damages and over 4,000 deaths.
- 2002 – MV Le Joola, a Senegalese government-owned ferry, capsized off the coast of The Gambia, resulting in the deaths of at least 1,863 people.
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