Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 26
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restore 1580 [[Francis Drake]], now the date is confirmed. rewrite to mention his boat, the [[Golden Hind]]
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- 1580: The Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, England, as Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1687: The Parthenon in Athens was partially destroyed during an armed conflict between Venetian and Ottoman forces.
- 1907: Newfoundland and New Zealand became dominions within the British Empire.
- 1957: West Side Story, a musical written by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, and produced and directed by Jerome Robbins, made its debut on Broadway.
- 1983: Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Union averted a worldwide nuclear war.
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