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September 26
What happened on this day
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Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
UN Int'l Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
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DART hits Dimorphos
4 years ago
NASA's spacecraft strikes the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, shifting its orbit by 32 minutes in the first planetary defence test.
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Petrov calls the false alarm
43 years ago
A Soviet duty officer judges his early-warning system wrong when it reports American missiles inbound in 1983, and reports nothing up the chain.
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New Zealand becomes a Dominion
119 years ago
Prime Minister Joseph Ward reads the royal proclamation from the steps of Parliament in 1907, and the colony becomes a dominion.
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