Notable Historical Events on September 27th
September 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
70 |
Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Roman army |
489 |
Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again. |
1066 |
William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England |
1290 |
Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000 |
1312 |
Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg |
1331 |
The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought. |
1509 |
Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s killed |
1540 |
Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola |
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. |
1694 |
Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink & 3,000 die |
1777 |
British General William Howe occupies Philadelphia during American Revolution |
1779 |
John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain |
1787 |
Constitution submitted to states for ratification |
1794 |
French troops conquer Crèvecoeur |
1821 |
Mexican Empire declares its independence; Mexican revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw |
1822 |
Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone. |
1825 |
Rail transport is born with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington line |
1830 |
Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed |
1833 |
Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe |
1834 |
Charles Darwin returns to Valparaiso |
1852 |
George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" premieres in Troy, NY |
1854 |
Steamship "Arctic" sinks with 300 people on board |
1855 |
George F Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle", 2nd American opera, opens in NYC |
1863 |
Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas |
1864 |
Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson) American Civil War, Missouri: 1700 killed/injured |
1864 |
Centralia Massacre (Missouri): 24 unarmed Union soldiers captured and executed by "Bloody Bill" Anderson/Frank |
1864 |
Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed |
1877 |
John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti |
1881 |
Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12 |
1892 |
Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company |
1894 |
Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY |
1900 |
Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W 42nd St NYC |
1903 |
Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name. |
1905 |
1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues |
1905 |
Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chicago White Sox, 2-0 |
1905 |
The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc². |
1908 |
Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile was leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan. |
1909 |
29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (6-1 6-2 5-7 1-6 6-1) |
1909 |
US President Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes |
1910 |
1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France) |
1912 |
W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912 |
1914 |
Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit |
1916 |
1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians |
1916 |
Emperor Lidj Jasu of Ethiopia flees |
1916 |
Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu. |
1917 |
Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St NYC |
1917 |
EHC soccer team forms in Hoensbroek Neth |
1919 |
British troops withdraw from Archangelsk |
1919 |
Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members |
1919 |
Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs |
1919 |
Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Wash (1st in every park in league in one season) |
1921 |
Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds |
1922 |
King Constantine I of Greece abdicates |
1923 |
Italian troops leave occupied Korfu |
1923 |
NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs |
1924 |
Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating Phils 5-1 |
1928 |
The Nationalist Republic of China is recognised by the United States. |
1930 |
34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones |
1930 |
Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs |
1930 |
White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns |
1931 |
Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481) |
1931 |
Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's |
1935 |
Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant |
1936 |
1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game |
1936 |
Franco troops conquer Toledo |
1936 |
Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder |
1937 |
1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY) |
1937 |
Balinese Tiger declared extinct. |
1938 |
British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launches at Clydebank Scotland |
1938 |
Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany |
1938 |
League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China |
1939 |
Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance |
1939 |
White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 & 7-5 |
1940 |
55 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940 |
Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces |
1940 |
Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller |
1940 |
Nazi Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis) |
1940 |
Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant for 1st time since 1935 |
1941 |
1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched |
1942 |
Heavy German assault in Stalingrad |
1942 |
NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down |
1942 |
Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer) |
1942 |
St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of season |
1943 |
Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples |
1943 |
Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter |
1944 |
Helmond & Oss Neth liberated |
1946 |
King George II of Greece returns from exile |
1947 |
"Sweethearts" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 288 performances |
1948 |
"Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 36 performances |
1950 |
Dr Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize |
1950 |
Ezzard Charles beats Joe Louis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1950 |
Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in 15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx NY. |
1951 |
Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan |
1953 |
Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal |
1953 |
KCMO (now KCTV) TV channel 5 in Kansas City, MO (CBS) begins |
1953 |
KNOE TV channel 8 in Monroe-West Monroe, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
KQTV TV channel 2 in Saint Joseph, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
St Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game |
1953 |
Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan |
1953 |
WHBQ TV channel 13 in Memphis, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WMAZ TV channel 13 in Macon, GA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WTOK TV channel 11 in Meridian, MS (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush |
1954 |
School integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore Md public schools |
1954 |
Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premieres |
1957 |
Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built |
1959 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open |
1959 |
Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68) |
1959 |
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit |
1960 |
Europe's 1st "moving pavement" (travelator), opens at Bank station on the London Underground |
1961 |
Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269 |
1961 |
Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN |
1962 |
Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen |
1962 |
US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles |
1962 |
Rachel Carson publishes 'Silent Spring' about the deleterious impacts pesticide use in the US on the environment |
1963 |
At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000 |
1963 |
Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico |
1964 |
Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves |
1964 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open |
1964 |
Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place |
1964 |
Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone |
1967 |
Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year |
1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
"Hair" opens in London |
1968 |
Cardinals' super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year |
1968 |
France denies UK entry into common market |
1970 |
Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error |
1971 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1971 |
Tripartite talks involving the prime ministers of Northern Ireland, Britain, and the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) of the Republic of Ireland take place at Chequers, England |
1972 |
1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition) |
1973 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season |
1973 |
Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days) |
1973 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1974 |
-10/26] Rome: 4th bishop synod |
1974 |
Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000 |
1975 |
Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain |
1977 |
Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title |
1978 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1978 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1979 |
US Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education |
1979 |
Elton John, sick with flu, collapse on Hollywood Universal Ampitheater |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
WHOT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM |
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. |
1981 |
"Day in Hollywood, A Night.." closes at John Golden NY after 588 perf |
1981 |
Iran defends its besieged port of Abadan, driving back Iraqi forces |
1982 |
Cards clinching NL East title |
1982 |
Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again" |
1982 |
Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize |
1982 |
John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show |
1983 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years |
1983 |
Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs |
1985 |
8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket |
1985 |
Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast |
1986 |
Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms |
1987 |
27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 15-13 at Muirfield Village GC (Ohio) |
1987 |
Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
1987 |
NFL players' strike |
1987 |
Phil Niekro final appearance & is pounded for 5 runs in 3 innings |
1988 |
Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story |
1988 |
Senate votes for major federal tax code changes |
1988 |
The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded in Burma (Myanmar) |
1989 |
Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title |
1989 |
Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash |
1990 |
Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession |
1990 |
Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly |
1990 |
Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif |
1990 |
Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court |
1990 |
Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House |
1990 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1991 |
"Princesses" premieres on CBS TV |
1991 |
President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert |
1991 |
1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins) |
1992 |
ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts sacrifice of 42 animals |
1992 |
LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place |
1992 |
Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163 |
1992 |
Nancy Scranton wins Los Coyotes LPGA Golf Classic |
1992 |
Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title |
1992 |
Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties with 18 strike outs |
1993 |
Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges |
1993 |
The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia. |
1996 |
Balt Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck |
1996 |
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah. |
1996 |
The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil. |
1998 |
Core States Betsy King Golf Classic |
1998 |
Google is launched. |
2001 |
At its two-day meeting in Vienna, OPEC decides to keep its production quotas unchanged at 23.2 million barrels per day, despite crude oil being at its lowest price levels since 1999 |
2002 |
Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations. |
2003 |
Actress Halle Berry announces her separation from second husband, R&B singer Eric Benet |
2003 |
Smart 1 satellite is launched. |
2005 |
Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New York Mets |
2008 |
CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7. |
2008 |
Greg Maddux wins his final start of his career (#355) |
2012 |
UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the Senkoku Islands |
2012 |
The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars |
2012 |
The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed |
2013 |
7 people are killed in mosque bombings in Baghdad, Iraq |
2013 |
19 people are killed and 45 are injured in a bus bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan |
2013 |
At least 22 people are killed after a refugee ship capsizes off the island of Java |
2013 |
60 people are killed after a building collapses in Mumbai, India |
2014 |
57 people are killed after Mount Ontake erupts in Japan |
2014 |
The West African death toll from the Ebola virus reaches 3,000 lives |
2014 |
Hawthorn Football Club defeats the Sydney Swans in the 2014 AFL Grand Final 137-74 |
2016 |
Charlotte protesters demand mayor's resignation over black man's slaying |
2017 |
Trump says US 'totally prepared' for military option in North Korea |
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