Today in History - History - September 26th

1995"George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr

1789Thomas Jefferson appointed 1st US Sec of State; John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice;

18921st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)

1963Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways bus to Mexico

1961Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record

1771Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel" premieres in Paris

1983Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic

1973Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors

1960Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)

1992Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3

1981Serena Williams, Saginaw, Michigan, tennis player (13 grand slams)

1888T. S. Eliot, St Louis Missouri, poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948), (d. 1965)

1902Albert Anastasia [Umberto Anastasio], Tropea Italy, American gangster (Murder Inc)

1181Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)

1986Fashion designer Calvin Klein (43) weds socialite Kelly Rector on a civil ceremony in Italy

1933Director Victor Fleming (44) weds Lucile Rosson

1861Political cartoonist Thomas Nast (21) weds Sarah Edwards (20) in USA

1919German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (43) weds Auguste Zinsser in Cologne, Germany

1820Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85

1902Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)

2006Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)

2010Gloria Stuart, American actress dies from respiratory failure at 100