A man survived a shooting at his home Tuesday morning, thanks in part to his cell phone, which slowed a bullet before it hit his chest.
Roger Baxter, a C-DOT employee who lost his legs after a semi going 70 mph hit him on I-70 last October, was shot in the chest after interrupting a burglary. [...]

A woman in her seventies has astounded doctors by surviving nearly two weeks in the thick woods of Eastern Oregon’s rugged Wallowa Mountains.
Doctors said Doris Anderson was hours from death when found on Thursday, with a body temperature that had dropped to 90 degrees.
Lost on a hunting trip, the grandmother of seven was lightly clothed [...]

9/26/1897 - 8/6/1978
Italian pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1963-78)
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86 Ivan Pavlov
9/26/1849 - 2/27/1936
Russian physiologist
56 Moses Mendelssohn
9/26/1729 - 1/4/1786
German-Jewish philosopher, critic and Bible translator
32 Jean-Louis Gericault
9/26/1791 - 1/26/1824
French painter and lithographer
66 Arthur B. Davies
9/26/1862 - 10/24/1928
American painter, printmaker and tapestry designer
76 T. S. Eliot
9/26/1888 - 1/4/1965
American-born poet, playwright, critic and editor
86 Martin Heidegger
9/26/1889 [...]

9/26/1897 - 8/6/1978
Italian pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1963-78)
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Source: NY Times

On Sept. 26, 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago as Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy squared off. (Go to article.)
1777 British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1789 Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s first secretary of state and John Jay the first chief justice.
1888 Poet T.S. Eliot was [...]