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On this day, 26 September
47 BC
Julius Caesar dedicated the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Rome to Venus, the mythical ancestor of his family.
1142
Stephen of Blois's army approached Oxford, beginning the siege of Oxford.
1493
Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem, one of the Bulls of Donation, marking the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
2014
A mass kidnapping of 43 students from a teaching college occurs in Iguala, Mexico.