Today in History, September 26, 2006
Today in HistoryToday is Tuesday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2006. There are 96 days left in the year.
ON THIS DATE<$>:
In 1777, British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
In 1955, following word that President Eisenhower had suffered a heart attack, the New York Stock Exchange saw its worst price decline since 1929.
In 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon took place in Chicago.
In 1980, the Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbour, ending the “freedom flotilla” of Cuban refugees that had begun the previous April.
In 1996, Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was formally sentenced to death in San Jose, California and sent to Death Row, where he remains.
<*“That the end of life should be death may sound sad; yet what other end can anything have?” — George Santayana, American philosopher (1863-1952).
