Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 26

September 26: European Day of Languages

1580 - The Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, England, as Francis Drake (pictured) 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 possible worldwide nuclear war.

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