Sunday, September 26, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 26
1960:Republican nominee Richard M. Nixon and Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy participate in the first televised debate between presidential candidates at a CBS studio in Chicago.

1950: Gen. Douglas MacArthur announces that United Nations forces have recaptured the South Korean capital, Seoul, from the occupying North Koreans.

1957: The Leonard Bernstein-composed musical West Side Story, a gritty reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet set in New York, opens at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre.

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