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On this day in history 26 sep

1913 The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal.

1918 German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62.

1941The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps.

1969 The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released.

1972 Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch.

1983 In the USSR Stanislav Petrov disobeys procedures and ignores electronic alarms indicating five incoming nuclear missiles, believing the US would launch more than five if it wanted to start a war. His decision prevented a retaliatory attack that would have begun a nuclear war between the superpowers..

2020 108 pilot whales survive, while 350 die in Australia's largest mass stranding at Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania

Born on September 26

1783 Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), American pioneer.

1887 Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer who invented the "Bouncing Bombs" used to destroy German dams during World War II.

1969 David Slade, director (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night).


Joke of the Day

Why did the bald man have his hand down his pants?




So he could run his fingers through his hair.