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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_26" title="September 26">September 26</a></b>:
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46_BC" title="46 BC">46 BC</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> dedicated the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Venus_Genetrix" title="Temple of Venus Genetrix">Temple of Venus Genetrix</a></b> in Rome to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a>, the mythical ancestor of his family.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1580" title="1580">1580</a> – English explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake" title="Francis Drake">Francis Drake</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleon" title="Galleon">galleon</a> the sailed into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a>, completing his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation" title="Circumnavigation">circumnavigation</a> of the globe.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_government" title="Nationalist government">Nationalist government</a> of China adopted <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwoyeu_Romatzyh" title="Gwoyeu Romatzyh">Gwoyeu Romatzyh</a></b> as the official system for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Chinese" title="Romanization of Chinese">romanization of Mandarin Chinese</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983" title="1983">1983</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>: Soviet lieutenant colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov" title="Stanislav Petrov">Stanislav Petrov</a> averted a potential <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_warfare" title="Nuclear warfare">nuclear war</a> by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident" title="1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident">identifying as a false alarm</a></b> signals that appeared to indicate an impending U.S. missile attack.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010" title="2010">2010</a> – Scottish aid worker <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Linda_Norgrove" title="Death of Linda Norgrove">Linda Norgrove</a></b> and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunar_Province" title="Kunar Province">Kunar Province</a>, Afghanistan.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Wesley_Evans" title="Hiram Wesley Evans">Hiram Wesley Evans</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1881); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Martello" title="Leo Martello">Leo Martello</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1930); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Saddington" title="Wendy Saddington">Wendy Saddington</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicja_Iwa%C5%84ska" title="Alicja Iwańska">Alicja Iwańska</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1996)</p>
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