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 Theodoric 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)
- 1805 - George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder
- 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 "Bull" Nelson, American (Union) 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, German composer (b. 1854)
- 1933 - Ring Lardner, American 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
External links
September 26 - September 28 - August 27 - October 27 - more historical anniversaries
See also: September 27, 1249, 1275, 1312, 1389
