📜 This Day in History

September 26

• 46 BCJulius Caesar dedicated the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Rome to Venus, the mythical ancestor of his family.
• 1580English explorer Francis Drake's galleon the Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, completing his circumnavigation of the globe.
• 1928The Republic of China adopted Gwoyeu Romatzyh as the official system for romanization of Mandarin Chinese.
• 1959The Cambodian–Vietnamese War formally ended with the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from the People's Republic of Kampuchea, a client state it had implemented to overthrow Democratic Kampuchea and the Khmer Rouge.
• 1983The racing yacht Australia II, captained by John Bertrand, won the America's Cup and ended the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the trophy.
• 2016The Ecnomiohyla rabborum became extinct when the last known surviving member died in captivity.

Born on this day

• 1888T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
• 1889Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (died 1976)
• 1897Pope Paul VI (died 1978)
• 1981Serena Williams, American tennis player