September 27

September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining.

Events

• 489 – Odoacer attacks Theoderic at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
• 1540 – Jesuit Order receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
• 1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
• 1605 – Armies of Sweden utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm
• 1787 – United States Constitution delivered to the states for ratification.
• 1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
• 1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
• 1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
• 1854 – The steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1905 – Albert Einstein published the paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?" on Annalen der Physik. This paper revealed the relationship between energy and mass.
• 1928 – The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
• 1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
• 1940 – The Tripartite Pact signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
• 1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more that 2,700 Liberty ships.
• 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 – The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) 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 U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
• 1980 – Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
• 1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
• 1986 – Cliff Burton, bassist for Metallica, dies after being crushed by the band's tour bus during their European tour.
• 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.
• 1997 – Communications are lost with the Mars Pathfinder for unknown reasons.
• 2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
• 2003 – Smart 1 is launched.
• 2004 – Virgin Group announced a joint venture with Mojave Aerospace Ventures to build VSS Enterprise for commercial space flights and a new company called Virgin Galactic.

Births

• 1275 – John II of Brabant (d. 1312)
• 1389 – Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
• 1601 – Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
• 1627 – Jacques Benigne Bossuet, French bishop and author (d. 1704)
• 1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
• 1722 – Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)
• 1803 – Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
• 1804 – Anna McNeill Whistler, Whistler's mother (d. 1881)
• 1818 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
• 1821 – Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss writer
• 1823 – James Streshly Jackson, American Civil War general
• 1824 – William Nelson, American Civil War general
• 1830 – William Babcock Hazen, American Civil War general
• 1840 – Thomas Nast, political cartoonist (d. 1902)
• 1843 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
• 1849 – Emile Claus, Belgian painter (d. 1924)
• 1855 – Paul Appell, French mathematician (d. 1930)
• 1871 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1926)
• 1874 – Koopman Bertha Frensel Wegener, composer
• 1876 – Earle Raymond Hedrick, mathematician
• 1879 – Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician
• 1879 – Cyril Scott, composer
• 1885 – Harry Blackstone, magician (d. 1965)
• 1892 – Mykhailo Krawtchouk, Ukraininan mathematician
• 1895 – George Raft, actor (d. 1980)
• 1896 – Sam Ervin, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (d. 1985)
• 1898 – Clementine Paddleford, American journalist
• 1902 – Margaret Herrick, credited with naming the Oscar (d. 1976)
• 1906 – William Empson, British poet and critic
• 1907 – Sardar Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter
• 1913 – Albert Ellis, psychologist
• 1916 – Vittorio Mussolini, Italian film producer and fascist historian (d. 1997)
• 1916 – John Robert Chaisson, U.S. general
• 1919 – James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (d. 1986)
• 1920 – William Conrad, actor (d. 1994)
• 1920 – Jayne Meadows, actress
• 1922 – Carl Ballantine, actor
• 1922 – Arthur Penn, director
• 1923 – Mary McCarty, actress
• 1924 – Fred Singer, American environmental scientist
• 1927 – Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist
• 1929 – Sada Thompson, actress
• 1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
• 1932 – Michael Colvin, Canadian tenor
• 1933 – Greg Morris, actor
• 1934 – Wilford Brimley, actor
• 1934 – Claude Jarman Jr., actor
• 1934 – Dick Schapp, sports reporter (d. 2001)
• 1936 – Gordon Honeycombe, British author, playwright, and stage actor
• 1936 – Don Cornelius, television host
• 1939 – Kathy Whitworth, golfer
• 1940 – Patrick Font
• 1942 – Dith Pran, photojournalist
• 1945 – Jack Goldstein, artist
• 1947 – Randy Bachman, Canadian musician
• 1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, model
• 1947 – Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer
• 1948 – A. Martinez, actor
• 1949 – Mike Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1949 – Robb Weller, reporter
• 1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor
• 1951 – Meat Loaf, American singer and actor
• 1952 – Dumitru Prunariu, cosmonaut
• 1953 – Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader
• 1953 – Diane Julie Abbott, British politician
• 1958 – Shaun Cassidy, singer, actor
• 1961 – Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor, singer
• 1965 – Peter MacKay, Canadian political leader
• 1965 – Steve Kerr, basketball player
• 1967 – Jason Dungjen, figure skater
• 1972 – Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist
• 1976 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Jon Rauch, tallest player in MLB history
• 1981 – Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
• 1984 – Avril Lavigne, singer and songwriter

Deaths

• 1249 – Raymond VII of Toulouse
• 1590 – Pope Urban VII
• 1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
• 1700 – Pope Innocent XII
• 1832 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher
• 1876 – Braxton Bragg
• 1917 – Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
• 1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, composer
• 1933 – Ring Lardner, writer
• 1956 – Gerald Finzi, composer
• 1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer
• 1960 – Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and social activist
• 1967 – Prince Felix Yussupov, assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)
• 1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian librarian
• 1975 – Jack Lang, Australian politician
• 1986 – Cliff Burton, musician
• 1993 – Jimmy Doolittle, U.S. general and World War II hero
• 1998 – Doak Walker, footballer (b. 1927)
• 1998 – Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
• 2003 – Donald O'Connor, actor, dancer, and singer

Holidays and observances

• Bahá'í Faith – Feast of Mashíyyat (Will) – First day of the eleventh month of the Bahá'í Calendar
• French Community Day, Belgium

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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