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Thursday, 04 December 2025
1986 Antonin Scalia becomes a Supreme Court Justice on this day in history. 
1986 On this day in history bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
1986 On September - 26 william Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1988 On this day in history canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
1988 On September - 26 nYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM on this day in history.
1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched on September - 26.
1989 Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome on this day in history.
1990 Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating on September - 26.
1990 Soviet parliament agrees on bill allowing religious practices on September - 26.
1990 On this day in history alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
1991 On September - 26 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
1992 Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85 on this day in history.
1993 James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82 on September - 26.
1994 Jessie Kesson, author, dies at 77 on September - 26.
1996 On this day in history u.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to earth after six months in orbit aboard the Russian space station Mir
1996 On September - 26 geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75
2005 Death of Jerry Juhl, writer on this day in history.
2005 On this day in history u.S. army reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on six of seven counts in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
2005 Helen Cresswell, British author on September - 26.
2006 Diet of Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Junichiro Koizumi on September - 26.
2007 On September - 26 emperor Akihito formally swears in Yasuo Fukuda as the 91st Prime Minister of Japan.
2007 On this day in history first confirmed deaths resulting from the Myanmar military's crackdown on weeks long anti-government protests. Buddhist monks are arrested and Internet access is cut from the public.[20]
2007 On September - 26 in southern Vietnam the Can Tho Bridge, which is under construction, collapses, killing scores of workers.
2012 Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus on September - 26.
2014 On September - 26 world Health Organisations estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091
2017 On this day in history saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving - last country in the world to do so
2017 On September - 26 fights break out in Uganda's parliament during debate to raise presidential age limit
2017 On this day in history world's second-largest gem-quality diamond, the "Lesedi La Rona", sells for $53m
2021 On this day in history the 2021 German federal election is held, with the Social Democratic Party beating out the CDU/CSU coalition.[204][205]
2023 Donald Trump found guilty of fraud by inflating his assets in a civil case was brought by New York attorney general Letitia James [1] on this day in history.
2024 Hurricane Helene, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Maria in 2017, makes landfall in Florida as a category four hurricane. It has a death toll of 236 and leaves more than 685 missing on this day in history.
