MONDAY, Sept. 26, 2022

1687 ― Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians

1777 ― British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution

1835 ― The opera “Lucia di Lammermoor” is produced (Naples)

1907 ― New Zealand becomes a dominion

1918 ― Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany began during World War I

1925 ― Italian sub “Sebastiano Veniero” lost off Sicily with 54 dead

1934 ― British liner Queen Mary is launched

1950 ― U.N. troops in the Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul

1954 ― Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay, Japan, killing over 1,600

1955 ― New York Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929

1957 ― Musical “West Side Story” opens on Broadway

1960 ― Longest speech in U.N. history (4 hours, 29 minutes, by Fidel Castro)

1962 ― Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)

1969 ― Beatles release “Abbey Road” album

1972 ― American Museum of Immigration dedicated

1973 ― Concorde flies from Washington, D.C., to Paris in 3 hours and 33 minutes

1980 ― Soyuz 38 returns to Earth

1984 ― Britain and China initial an agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1984 ― President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa

1988 ― New York City's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark

1988 ― Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new prime minister

1988 ― US space shuttle STS-26 launched

1991 ― Two-year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona, begins