4 Mehr 1421

Events

• 46 BC Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.
• 1687 (339 years ago) Morean War: The Parthenon in Athens, used as a gunpowder depot by the Ottoman garrison, is partially destroyed after being bombarded during the Siege of the Acropolis by Venetian forces.
• 1777 (249 years ago) American Revolutionary War: British troops capture and begin the occupation of Philadelphia, which had been serving as the American capital city, during the Philadelphia campaign.
• 1789 (237 years ago) George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
• 1905 (121 years ago) Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
• 1917 (109 years ago) World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
• 1980 (46 years ago) A terrorist bombing at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, kills 13 people and injures 213 others.
• 2024 (2 years ago) Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Perry, Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, killing over 250 people, causing US$78.7 billion in damage and becoming the deadliest hurricane in the mainland United States since Katrina.

Births

• 1849 (177 years ago) Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
• 1888 (138 years ago) T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
• 1889 (137 years ago) Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (died 1976)
• 1897 (129 years ago) Pope Paul VI,
• 1898 (128 years ago) George Gershwin, American pianist and composer (died 1937)
• 1932 (94 years ago) Manmohan Singh, Indian economist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of India (died 2024)
• 1965 (61 years ago) Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian businessman and politician, 5th President of Ukraine
• 1981 (45 years ago) Serena Williams, American tennis player

Deaths

• 1328 (698 years ago) Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar and philosopher of Harran (born 1263)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1881)
• 1952 (74 years ago) George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (born 1863)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Anna Magnani, Italian actress and singer (born 1908)
• 1978 (48 years ago) Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
• 1990 (36 years ago) Alberto Moravia, Italian author and critic (born 1907)
• 2008 (18 years ago) Paul Newman, American actor, director, producer, and businessman (born 1925)
• 2019 (7 years ago) Jacques Chirac, French politician, President of France (born 1932)

All 420 events, births and deaths of September 26