September 26: the destruction of the Parthenon, the Bezdan robbery and the first current of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

September 26, 1687 during the bombardment of Athens by the Venetian army destroyed the temple Parthenon.

1815 - in Paris, Austria, Prussia and the Russian Empire signed an agreement on the creation of the Holy Alliance, whose goals were to ensure the inviolability of the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, the suppression of revolutionary and national liberation movements in Europe.

1887 - Emil Berliner patented the gramophone.

1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland became the dominions of the British Empire.

1908 - The Hazdean robbery - the robbery of a postal train at the station of Bezdan, committed by militants of the Polish Socialist Party under the leadership of the future Polish national hero and head of state Józef Piłsudski.

1913 - in Kiev began the trial of the Beilis case - a lawsuit against the Jew Menachem Mendel Beiliss, accused of murder with the ritual purpose of the Christian boy Andrew Yushchinsky.

1934 - in England, the ocean liner "RMS Queen Mary" was launched, becoming the first vessel with a displacement of more than 75,000 tons.

1941 - the Kiev strategic defensive operation ended, which lasted 82 days.

1977 - the first current was given by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - the first nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

1991 - An-24 crash in the Gulf of Finland. Killed 10 people.

1996 - astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to Earth on board the shuttle Atlantis after 188 days, held in space aboard the Russian station Mir. She became the record holder among Americans and in the world among women for the duration of her stay in space.

2008 - near the capital of Ulan Bator on the site where, according to legend, Genghis Khan found the golden whip, he installed a monument - the largest equestrian statue in the world, 40 meters high (without pedestal) and weighing 250 tons.