26 SEP--This Day in US Military History

1786 – Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays’ Rebellion.

Fueled by perceived economic terrorism and growing disaffection with State and Federal governments, Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led a group of rebels (called Shaysites) in rising up first against Massachusetts’ courts, and later in marching on the United States’ Federal Armory at Springfield in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government.
Although Shays’ Rebellion met with defeat militarily, it bore fruit in forcing the Federal government to reconsider the extent of its own powers at the U.S. Constitutional Convention, and by drawing General George Washington out of retirement en route to his Presidency, among influencing other changes to America’s young democracy.

https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/september-26/