Today in History in 1960 the first televised United States Presidential debate takes place, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

1087 – William II of England is crowned king in Westminster Abbey.

1345 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.

1371 – Battle of Maritsa in the Serbian-Turkish War.

1580 – Francis Drake completes his circumnavigation (voyage around the world).

1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Francesco Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.

1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, later known as the Glorious Revolution.

1777 – British forces occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War.

1786 – Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military stand-off that begins the Shays' Rebellion.

1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State.

1792 – Marc-David Lasource accuses Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship in France.

1810 – The Riksdag (Swedish parliament) passes the Act of Succession, allowing Jean Baptiste Bernadotte to become heir to the throne of Sweden.

1832 – The Göta Canal in central Sweden opens.

1860 – The current Flag of Ecuador is introduced.

1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.

1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland are given Dominion status.

1908 – The Norwegian football club SK Brann is founded.

1914 – The US Federal Trade Commission is established.

1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.

1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins.

1923 – Gustav Stresemann resumes (restarts) the Weimar Republic's payment of reparation money.

1933 – A hurricane in Tampico, Mexico kills 1,000 people.

1934 – The steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.

1941 – Off the Azores, British passenger steamer Avoceta is torpedoed by a German U-boat. It sinks within two minutes, killing 123 people.

1944 – World War II: The Allies abandon Operation Market Garden.

1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the UN.

1950 – Korean War: UN forces re-capture Seoul from North Korean forces.

1954 – Japanese railway ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon, killing 1,172 people.

1955 – The Flag and Coat of Arms of East Germany are introduced.

1959 – Typhoon Vera hits Japan, killing 4,580 people.

1960 – The first televised United States Presidential debate takes place, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the Soviet Union.

1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.

1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.

1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 square kilometers) of land.

1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in record-breaking time.

1980 – The Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich kills 13 people and injures 211.

1981 – The first flight of a Boeing 767 takes place.

1983 – Sailing: The Yacht Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending a 132-year US winning streak.

1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.

1992 – A Nigerian troop transporter plane crashes shortly after take-off in Lagos, killing all 163 soldiers on board.

1997 – A plane crash in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia, kills 234 people.

1997 – A major earthquake strikes central Italy.

2000 – The ship MS Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea, killing 80 people.

2001 – The Polish Wikipedia is launched.

2002 – A Senegalese ferry capsizes near the Gambia, killing more than 1,000 people.

2006 – Shinzo Abe becomes Prime Minister of Japan for the first time.

2007 – Yasuo Fukuda becomes Prime Minister of Japan.

2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes the first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

2009 – Typhoon Ketsana strikes the Philippines, and several neighboring countries, killing over 700 people.

2014 – Several students are kidnapped from Iguala, Mexico.

2016 – The first 2016 US presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump takes place.

2017 – It is announced that the Republic of Ireland is to hold a referendum on the issue of abortion in 2018.

2017 – An end to the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia is announced.

2019 – New South Wales becomes the last Australian state to allow abortion.