Today's Calendar for September 26th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1680s

• 1687: Parthenon partially destroyed by Venetians, Athens, Greece

1770s

• Born 1774: Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman (farmer, folk legend)

1820s

• 1820: On the steps of the Salem, New Jersey courthouse, Colonel Robert Johnson bit into a tomato in order to prove wrong the long-lasting theory that tomatoes were poisonous

• Died 1820: Daniel Boone (frontiersman)

1840s

• Born 1840: Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon (8th premier of Quebec)

• Born 1849: Ivan Pavlov (physiologist)

1860s

• Born 1862: Arthur B. Davies (artist)

1870s

• 1872: The Shriners, a fraternal and charitable organization, opened its first temple

1880s

• Born 1888: T.S. Eliot (poet)

1890s

• Born 1898: George Gershwin (composer)

1910s

• Born 1914: Jack LaLanne (fitness guru)

1930s

• Died 1937: Bessie Smith (singer)

1940s

• Born 1948: Olivia Newton-John (singer)

1960s

• 1960: Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy confronted each other in the first televised presidential debate

• 1962: The Beverly Hillbillies debuted on television

• Born 1962: Melissa Sue Anderson (actress)

1970s

• Died 1978: World's oldest alligator on record (age 66)

1980s

• Born 1981: Serena Williams (tennis player)

• 1983: Australia won the America's Cup. It was the first time in 132 years that the U.S. did not win

• 1983: N.Y. Giant Ali Haji-Sheikh kicked a 56-yard field goal

2000s

• Died 2003: Robert Palmer (singer)

• Died 2008: Paul Newman (actor & businessman)

2010s

• 2011: 42.1-inch-long cucumber set world record