September 26th History Tidbit: 1950 United Nations troops recapture the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean War...1955 With news of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s heart attack two days earlier made public, the New York Stock Exchange suffers its worst decline since 1929...1960 For the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential candidates is televised when Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy meet in a Chicago studio to discuss domestic matters...1962 “The Beverly Hillbillies” debuts on CBS TV...1969 “Abbey Road,” the Beatles last album together as a group, is released...1980 The Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor to end the flotilla of Cuban refugees that began five months earlier...1981 The Boeing 767 makes its maiden flight in Everett, Wash...1985 Shamu, the first killer whale to survive birth in captivity, is born at Sea World in Orlando, Fla...1986 Bobby Ewing returns from the dead on “Dallas.”...1991 Four men and four women begin a two-year stay inside “Biosphere II,” a project designed to develop technology for future space colonies...1993 Eight people who stayed in “Biosphere II” emerge from their sealed-off environment...1996 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returns to Earth in the U.S. space shuttle “Atlantis” after 188 days in orbit aboard the Russian space station “Mir,” setting a new space endurance record for an American and a world endurance record for a woman...2001 Hundreds of people begin the process of filing for death certificates for family members still missing in the ruins of New York City’s World Trade Center. Fifteen days after the terror attack, 6,300 people are still unaccounted for...2002 The overloaded ferry “Joola” capsizes off the coast of Gambia, and only 64 of approximately 1,035 aboard are rescued...2007 Music producer Phil Spector’s trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson ends in a mistrial when the jury cannot reach a unanimous verdict...2008 Paul Newman, one of the leading movie stars of the 20th century, dies of cancer at the age of 83 at his home in Westport, Conn.
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