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September 27

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

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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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.