WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. SEPTEMBER
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World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins. (26. September 1917)

World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins. (26. September 1918)

Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations. (26. September 1923)

As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don’t shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents. (26. September 1933)

Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger (26. September 1933)

Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched. (26. September 1934)

The Holocaust: August Frank, a higher official of the SS concentration camp administration department, issues a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be "evacuated". (26. September 1942)

World War II: Operation Market Garden fails. (26. September 1944)

World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting. (26. September 1944)

United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces. (26. September 1950)

Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations. (26. September 1950)

Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172. (26. September 1954)

Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless. (26. September 1959)

In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. (26. September 1960)

Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R. (26. September 1960)

The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km2). (26. September 1970)

The Freetown Christiania was founded. (26. September 1971)

Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time. (26. September 1973)

At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people died and 211 were injured. (26. September 1980)