Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 26

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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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