27 September

Events:

• 489 - Odoacer attacks Theoderic at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
• 1540 - Jesuit Order receives its charter from Pope Paul III
• 1787 - United States Constitution delivered to the states for ratification
• 1821 - The Mexican Army finally enters Mexico City after 11 years of Independence War.
• 1825 - The Stockton and Darlington Railway was opened. First locomotive pulling a passenger train operated on the line by George Stephenson
• 1954 - The steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1928 - The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
• 1938 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow
• 1939 - Poland surrenders to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
• 1940 - The Tripartite Pact signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
• 1942 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform at the in Passaic County, New Jersey for the last time before Miller enters the US Army.
• 1949 - First Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves design for the Flag of the People's Republic of China
• 1954 - Debut of "Tonight!" hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
• 1959 - Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshu as the result of a typhoon.
• 1964 - Warren Commission report issued, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy
• 1979 - United States Department of Education receives final approval from the US Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
• 1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter by a knockout in three rounds to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. Then, Hagler, Minter and Vito Antuofermo, who had also boxed that day, have to be taken out of the ring by Scotland Yard after a riot forms.
• 1983 - Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
• 1995 - The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bills with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
• 1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
• 2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
• 2003 - Smart 1 is launched.

Births:

• 1275 - John II of Brabant
• 1389 - Cosimo de Medici, Florentine ruler
• 1601 - Louis XIII of France
• 1722 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader († 1803)
• 1818 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist
• 1840 - Thomas Nast, political cartoonist († 1902)
• 1871 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (+ 1926)
• 1885 - Harry Blackstone, magician († 1965)
• 1895 - George Raft, actor († 1980)
• 1896 - Sam Ervin, Senator from North Carolina, Watergate scandal figure († 1985)
• 1913 - Albert Ellis, psychologist
• 1920 - Jayne Meadows, actress
• 1920 - William Conrad, actor († 1994)
• 1922 - Arthur Penn, director
• 1922 - Carl Ballantine, actor
• 1927 - Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist
• 1928 - Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and Prime Minister
• 1929 - Sada Thompson, actress
• 1932 - Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
• 1933 - Greg Morris, actor
• 1934 - Wilford Brimley, actor
• 1934 - Dick Schapp, sports reporter († 2001)
• 1934 - Claude Jarman Jr., actor
• 1936 - Don Cornelius, television host
• 1947 - Randy Bachman, Canadian musician
• 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, fashion model
• 1948 - A Martinez, actor
• 1949 - Robb Weller, reporter
• 1950 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor
• 1951 - Meat Loaf, American singer and actor
• 1953 - Diane Julie Abbott, British politician
• 1958 - Shaun Cassidy, singer, actor
• 1984 - Avril Lavigne, singer, songwriter

Deaths:

• 1590 - Pope Urban VII
• 1917 - Edgar Degas, painter
• 1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, composer
• 1933 - Ring Lardner, writer
• 1956 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer
• 1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, social activist
• 1993 - James Doolittle, United States General, World War II hero
• 2003 - Donald O'Connor, actor

Holidays:

• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mashíyyat (Will) - First day of the eleventh month of the Bahá'í Calendar

September 26 - September 28 - August 27 - October 27 - more historical anniversaries

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