What happened on 26 September?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1932 Born: Manmohan Singh Architect of India's 1991 economic liberalisation; PM 2004-2014.
2. 1957 Bernstein's West Side Story Bernstein's score for the Broadway musical reimagining Romeo and Juliet in Manhattan.
3. 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive American-led offensive in eastern France; largest US battle of WW1.
4. 1981 Born: Serena Williams American tennis champion; 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
5. 1820 Born: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Reformer and writer; campaigner for widow remarriage.
6. 1898 Born: George Gershwin American composer who blended jazz and classical in Rhapsody in Blue and Porgy and Bess.
7. 1348 Clement VI shields the Jews As massacres of Jews accused of poisoning wells spread up the Rhine, the pope at Avignon issues bulls declaring the accusation absurd — the plague kills Jews too, and where no Jews
8. 1907 New Zealand becomes a dominion New Zealand gains dominion status within the British Empire, a step toward full sovereignty.
9. 1888 Born: T. S. Eliot Anglo-American Modernist poet of The Waste Land and Four Quartets.
10. 1371 Battle of Maritsa An Ottoman night attack destroys a large Serbian army on the Maritsa river; the Balkans' lords begin falling into vassalage two decades before Kosovo.