Historical Events on September 27

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• 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 the Gulf of Chihli (Bohai Sea) near China, reportedly kills 100,000 people
• 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, thousands killed
• 1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola confirmed by Pope Paul III in Rome
• 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

• 1794 French troops conquer Crèvecoeur

• 1822 French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone
• 1824 Charles X, King of France, makes his state entry into Paris to popular acclaim

• 1830 Dutch army leaves Brussels, after hundreds killed
• 1852 George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" premieres in Troy, NY
• 1854 Steamship "Arctic" collides with "vesta" off Newfoundland coast due to heavy fog, killing 322
• 1855 George Frederick 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

• 1877 John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti
• 1879 British Open Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jamie Anderson wins by 3 shots from countrymen Jamie Allen & Andrew Kirkaldy; 3rd consecutive title
• 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 Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chicago White Sox, 2-0

• 1910 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)

• 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 a palace coup by 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 the North Russian town of Archangelsk after fighting Bolsheviks/Soviets
• 1919 Democratic National Committee votes to allow female members
• 1919 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs

• 1921 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
• 1922 King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
• 1923 Italian troops leave occupied Corfu

• 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 MLB's 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 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 practise in Germany
• 1938 League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China
• 1939 Warsaw 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

• 1942 Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
• 1942 NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
• 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 to Athens
• 1947 "Sweethearts" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 288 performances
• 1948 "Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 36 performances

• 1951 Persian troops occupy 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 one third of Nagoya, Japan
• 1953 WHBQ TV channel 13 in Memphis, Tennessee (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 Washington, D.C. & Baltimore Md public schools

• 1957 Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built
• 1959 Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)

• 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

• 1963 At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000

• 1964 Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves
• 1964 Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place
• 1964 Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John F. 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 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 Australian National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000
• 1975 Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain
• 1976 TV drama “Dawn: Portrait of A Teenage Runaway", starring Eve Plumb premieres on US network NBC
• 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 Department of Education

• 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 performances
• 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

• 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


• 1986 "Give Me Wings" single released by Michael Johnson (Billboard Song of the Year 1987)
• 1987 Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: Europe beats US, 15-13; after 13-0 unbeaten record spanning 60 years, US loses for first time on home soil
• 1987 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
• 1987 NFL players' strike begins in the US
• 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 Canadian Finn class sailor Lawrence Lemieux abandons race 5 to assist injured competitor after being in 2nd place; selfless act is awarded with the Pierre de Coubertin medal
• 1988 American diver Greg Louganis wins the 10m platform gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; wraps up diving double after also taking out the 3m springboard gold
• 1988 East German cyclist Olaf Ludwig wins the men's road race in 4:32:22 at the Seoul Olympics; beats West German pair Bernd Gröne & Christian Henn
• 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 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 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.

• 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 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.

• 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

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