26 September

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 26 September:

1. Born this date in 1944 was Anne Robinson, television presenter known as a presenter on consumer affairs series, Watchdog, but also gained notoriety as the hostess of quiz show The Weakest Link, which earned her the nickname "Queen of Mean". You are the weakest link, goodbye.
2. On this date in 1948 Olivia Newton-John was born. Her hits include If Not for You, Banks of the Ohio, Take Me Home, Country Roads, Long Live Love, I Honestly Love You, You're the One That I Want, Summer Nights and Physical.
3. In 2000, a Camel herder at Jizan in southern Saudi Arabia beat one of his camels this morning. The camel bore a grudge all day and waited until the herder went to sleep that night, and then trampled and bit him to death. Needless to say, the camel was shot dead when its crime was discovered.
4. In 1580, Francis Drake sailed into Plymouth after sailing The Golden Hind around the world in 33 months, with a shipload of loot from the Spanish. He was the first Briton to circumnavigate the globe.
5. An iconic episode of Dallas was first broadcast on this date in 1986. Patrick Duffy, who played Bobby Ewing, returned to the show after his character was written out and killed off a season previously. The episode had Bobby's wife Pam discover him taking a shower and realising that his death and everything that had happened in the previous season was just a bad Dream.
6. Manchester United achieved the highest score in a single match in the European Cup on this date in 1956 when they beat Anderlecht 10-1.
7. In 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov refused to accept what his computer was telling him, that missiles had been launched against the USSR by the US. Petrov held firm while alarms around him in his bunker screamed at him for three minutes. He was right to do so: it was a computer glitch. Petrov was investigated for his conduct during the incident, and believes that the investigators tried to make him a scapegoat for the false alarm, rather than lauding him for preventing an unnecessary nuclear war.
8. Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organisation, was formed on this date in 1829.
9. In 1449, according to a medieval chronicle, two fire-breathing Dragons battled each other at Great Cornard by the River Stour, Kent, England. The two dragons, one from Killingdown Hill in Suffolk, the other from Ballingdon Hill in Essex, met in the marshy field known as Sharpfight Meadow. The ground shook as the two beasts fought it out, watched by amazed villagers from miles around.
10. In 1976, Rameses the Great became the first Pharaoh to travel by plane when his mummy was flown to France for conservation.

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