September 26
1789
Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s first Secretary of State.
1820
Frontiersman, Daniel Boone, died in Missouri.
1914
The Federal Trade Commission was established.
1950
United Nations troops recaptured Seoul, the capital of South Korea, from the North Koreans.
1960
Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took part in the first televised presidential debate.
1986
William H. Rehnquist was sworn as the 16th chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Birthdays
John Chapman
1774–1845, American pioneer, more familiarly known as Johnny Appleseed, born in Massachusetts.
Ivan Pavlov
experimental psychologist (1849)
T. S. Eliot
poet (1888)
Martin Heidegger
philosopher (1889)
George Gershwin
composer (1898)
Christine Todd Whitman
public official (1946)
Olivia Newton-John
singer (1948)
Serena Williams
tennis player (1981)