SEPTEMBER 26
1991:Four men and four women enter Biosphere 2, a self-contained,
life-supporting dome mimicking the ecosystems of the Earth, in Oracle,
Ariz. They will remain in the sealed dome for two years, growing crops
and studying the ecology of the biosphere, which includes a miniature
rainforest, desert, ocean and savannah.
1789: Thomas Jefferson,
then serving as ambassador to France, is appointed by President George
Washington as the first U.S. secretary of state. John Jay is confirmed
as chief justice of the United States on the same day.
1957: Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence star as Tony and Maria, star-crossed lovers in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. The musical, a gritty reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet set amidst ethnic tensions in 1950s New York City, premieres at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre.
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