What Happened on this Date in History
September 26
1580 — Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England after circumnavigating the globe.
1820 – Daniel Boone dies in Missouri
1888 – Poet T.S. Elliot is born
1928 – Work begins at Gavin Manufacturing Corp., maker of the first mass-produced car radio, Motorola.
1957 – West Side Story opens on Broadway
1960 – First televised presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy
1969 — “Brady Bunch” premieres
1996 – US Astronaut Shannon Lucid (former record holder for the longest duration stay in space by an American and by a woman) returns to earth on the Space Shuttle Atlantis after six months on the Space Station Mir.