September 27
Template:Linked-title 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.
- 1331 - the Battle of Plowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order took place.
- 1540 - The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) 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 - The armies of Sweden are utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm
- 1787 - The United States Constitution is 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.
- 1903 - Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
- 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?" in Annalen der Physik. This paper revealed the relationship between energy and mass.
- 1922 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, King George II.
- 1928 - The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
- 1937 - Last Balinese Tiger killed.
- 1938 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
- 1940 - The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
- 1941 - The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
- 1942 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller enters the US Army.
- 1949 - The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
- 1953 - TV Record, Brazilian TV Network, debuts.
- 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 - The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
- 1968 - The stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof's collapsing in July 1973.
- 1977 - The 300 metre tall CKVR-TV transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
- 1979 - The 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.
- 1985 - Hurricane Gloria hits Long Island, New York.
- 1988 - The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.
- 1995 - The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
- 1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the 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.
- 1998 - Google is first established
- 1999 - The last professional baseball game is played at historic Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan.
- 2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
- 2003 - Smart 1 is launched.
- 2004 - Virgin Group announces a joint venture with Mojave Aerospace Ventures to build VSS Enterprise for commercial spaceflight and a new company called Virgin Galactic.
- 2005 - Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 is released.
Deaths
- 1249 - Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
- 1304 - John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier
- 1404 - William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)
- 1557 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
- 1590 - Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
- 1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
- 1660 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)
- 1700 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
- 1719 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
- 1730 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
- 1735 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
- 1737 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)
- 1742 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
- 1832 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)
- 1876 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
- 1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
- 1911 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 184)
- 1917 - Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
- 1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
- 1940 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
- 1940 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
- 1944 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (b. 1890)
- 1956 - Gerald Finzi, English composer (b. 1901)
- 1956 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)
- 1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882)
- 1965 - Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1967 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)
- 1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
- 1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
- 1979 - Dame Gracie Fields, British comedian (b. 1898)
- 1981 - Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1985 - Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
- 1986 - Cliff Burton, American musician (Metallica) (b. 1962)
- 1993 - Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
- 1996 - Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
- 1998 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
- 1998 - Doak Walker, American footballer (b. 1927)
- 2003 - Donald O'Connor, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)
Holidays and observances
- RC Saints - Saint Vincent de Paul
- Ethiopian Orthodox Church - Meskel
- Also see September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mashíyyat (Will) - First day of the eleventh month of the Bahá'í Calendar
- Belgium - French Community Day
- French Republican Calendar - Balsamine (Impatiens) Day, sixth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
External links
September 26 - September 28 - August 27 - October 27 – more historical anniversaries