On This Day in History for September 27

Events 1 - 100 of 148

• 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
• 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
• 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.

• 1910 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
• 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
• 1919 British troops withdraw from the North Russian town of Archangelsk after fighting Bolsheviks/Soviets
• 1919 Democratic National Committee votes to allow female members
• 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 Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
• 1931 Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's

• 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
• 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 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
• 1951 Persian troops occupy oil refinery at Abadan
• 1953 Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal
• 1953 Typhoon destroys one third of Nagoya, Japan
• 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

• 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 Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
• 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1968 "Hair" opens in London
• 1968 France denies UK entry into common market
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 1981 Iran defends its besieged port of Abadan, driving back Iraqi forces
• 1982 Cards clinching NL East title

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 117

• 1275 John II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1312)

• 1507 Guillaume Rondelet, French naturalist famous for his study of marine animals, born in Montpellier, France (d. 1566)
• 1600 John Galle, Flemish engraver and printer, baptised (d. 1676)
• 1601 Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), born in Palace of Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France (d. 1643)

• 1643 Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman, born in Boston (d. 1729)
• 1657 Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1704)
• 1696 Alfonso Liguori, Italian bishop and theologian, born in Marianella, Campania, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1787)
• 1719 Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician, born in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1800)

• 1729 Michael Denis, Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist, born in Schärding, Austria (d. 1800)
• 1772 Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson the 3rd President of the U.S., born in Monticello, Virginia (d. 1836)

• 1792 George Cruikshank, English caricaturist and illustrator (Grimms' Fairy Tales), born in London, England (d. 1878)
• 1803 Samuel Francis DuPont, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), born in Bayonne, New Jersey (d. 1865)
• 1805 George Müller, Prussian Christian evangelist and orphanage builder, born in Kroppenstedt, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1898)
• 1809 Raphael Semmes, American Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), born in Charles County, Maryland (d. 1877)

• 1821 Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss writer (Grains de Mil), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1881)
• 1824 William "Bull" Nelson, American Major General (Union Army), born in Maysville, Kentucky (d. 1862)
• 1830 William Babcock Hazen, American Major General (Union Army), born in West Hartford, Vermont (d. 1887)
• 1835 John Murray Corse, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1893 [or 4/27])
• 1838 Anthony Modderman, Dutch politician (Minister of Justice, 1879-83), born in Winschoten, Netherlands (d. 1885)
• 1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan, American naval officer (Influence of Sea Power), born in West Point, New York (d. 1914)

• 1842 Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist, born in Ronse, Belgium (d. 1903)
• 1843 Gaston Tarry, French mathematician, born in Villefranche de Rouergue, Aveyron, France (d. 1913)
• 1858 Þorsteinn Erlingsson, Icelandic poet (Pyrnar), born in Iceland (d. 1914)
• 1862 Louis Botha, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa (1910-19), born in Greytown, South Africa (d. 1919)
• 1864 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist and author, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1961)
• 1864 Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic priest, born in Liptó County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1938)
• 1866 Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Fra Cancelliraadens Dage), born in Ringsaker, Norway (d. 1920)
• 1866 Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (model of holiness in the daily life of a Catholic family), born in Quinto Vicentino, Italy (d. 1932)
• 1867 Rosa Lewis, English chef and owner (Cavandish Hotel London), born in Leyton, Essex (d. 1952)
• 1871 Grazia Deledda, Italian author (Nobel 1926), born in Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy (d. 1936)
• 1879 Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1934)
• 1885 Harry Blackstone Sr., American magician, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1965)
• 1893 Joannes Cornelissen, Dutch historian (Hooft & Tacitus)
• 1894 Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot, born in Kleinburg, Germany (d. 1922)
• 1896 Sam Ervin, American politician (U.S. Senator from North Carolina) and Watergate committee chairman, born in Morganton, North Carolina (d. 1985)
• 1905 Vjekoslav Kaleb, Croatian writer (Splendor of the Fabric), born in Tisno, Croatia (d. 1996)
• 1906 William Empson, English poet and critic (Milton's God), born in Hawdon, Yorkshire, England (d. 1984)
• 1906 Jim Thompson, American author (The Killer Inside Me), born in Anadarko, Oklahoma (d. 1977)

• 1908 Shiv Verma, Indian revolutionary soldier (d. 1997)
• 1910 Giles Playfair, English writer, born in Kensington, London (d. 1996)
• 1911 Peter Doig, British Labour Party politician, born in Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland (d. 1996)
• 1912 Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter and communist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1993)
• 1912 Mary Grierson, Welsh botanical artist, born in Bangor, Wales (d. 2012)
• 1913 Albert Ellis, American psychologist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
• 1916 Samuel S. Stratton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 1990)
• 1916 Frank Handlen, American artist
• 1917 Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence NY, lawyer/novelist (Watchfires)
• 1918 Malcolm Shepherd [2nd Baron Shepherd], Politician (L) and Leader of the House of Lords (1974-76), born in Blackburn, Lancashire (d. 2001)
• 1918 Martin Ryle, Britain, radio astronomer/astronomer royal (1972-82)
• 1919 Charles H Percy, (Sen-R-Ill)
• 1919 Jayne Meadows, American actress (Dark Delusion, David and Bathsheba) and wife of Steve Allen, born in Wuchang, Hubei, China (d. 2015)
• 1919 James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
• 1920 J K Gill, president (Saatchi & Saatchi)
• 1921 Dennis Nineham, British theologian, (d. 2016)
• 1922 Arthur Penn, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1924 Bernard Waber, American author, (d. 2013)
• 1924 Fred Singer, American scientist
• 1924 Josef Skvorecky, Czechoslovakia, writer and publisher (End of the Nylon Age, The Cowards) (d. 2012)
• 1925 Robert Edwards, Batley, Yorkshire, physiologist (IVF pioneer, Nobel 2010), (d. 2013)
• 1927 Eli van der Merwe Louw, South African minister of Transport/Manpower
• 1927 Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
• 1928 G H Martin, British keeper of Public Records
• 1928 Margaret Rule, consultant (Mary Rose Trust)
• 1930 Roger Birch, Chief Constable (Sussex)
• 1931 Gerald Warner, deputy secretary (Cabinet Office)
• 1932 Peter Holmes, CEO (Shell Transport & Trading Company
• 1932 Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
• 1932 Yash Chopra, Indian director, (d. 2012)
• 1933 Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist (d. 2007)
• 1934 DAER Peake, CEO (Kleinwort Benson Group)
• 1936 Yuri Nikolayevich Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
• 1938 Alexander Graham, Lord Mayor of London
• 1939 Jim Ross Lightfoot, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1985- )
• 1939 Nicholas Haslam, English interior designer, born in Amersham
• 1939 Carol Lynn Pearson, American poet and writer
• 1941 Serge Ménard, Québécois politician
• 1942 Tessa Blackstone "the Red Baroness", British politician and educator, born in Bures
• 1943 Anna Gael, [Gyarmarthy], Lady Weymouth, born in Budapest, Hungary
• 1943 Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat
• 1944 IDG Garnett, British Vice-Admiral, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (NATO)
• 1945 Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (d. 2003)
• 1945 Kay Ryan, American poet (Hide and Seek), born in San Jose, California
• 1946 Peter H Kostmayer, (Rep-D-PA, 1977-81, 83- )
• 1946 Ronald Fox, senior partner (Fox Williams)
• 1946 T.C. Cannon, Kiowa/Caddo artist (d. 1978)
• 1947 Jacques Wallage, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Education
• 1947 Mary Jo White, American lawyer and Chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, born in Kansas City, Missouri
• 1948 Michael Houlihan, director (Horniman Museum & Gardens)
• 1948 John K. Reed, American coral biologist
• 1949 Graham Richardson, Australian politician
• 1951 Jim Shooter, American comic book writer
• 1951 Paul Craig, British law professor
• 1952 Doemitri Dorin Prunariu, Romania, cosmonaut (Soyuz 40)

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• 1947 Fantasy and sci-fiction writer Ray Bradbury (27) weds Marguerite McClure (25)

• 1249 Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
• 1259 Ezzeline III da Romano, gentleman of Verona/"cruel monster", dies
• 1404 William of Wykeham, chancellor/Bishop of Winchester, dies
• 1557 Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
• 1566 Marcus A Vida, [Marcus Hieronymus], Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies
• 1590 Urban VII, [Giambattista Castagna], Italian Pope (1590), dies
• 1612 Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/PM (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76
• 1615 Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)
• 1617 Johan Earnest count of Nassau-Siegen, dies
• 1641 Francois van d'aerssen, mister of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69
• 1651 Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, dies at 78
• 1660 Vincent de Paul, French Roman Catholic Saint, dies at 79
• 1674 Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies
• 1674 Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies
• 1700 Innocent XII [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700), dies at 85
• 1719 George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
• 1730 Laurence Eusden, English poet, Poet Laureate (1718-30), dies at 42
• 1735 Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
• 1737 John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor, dies at 57
• 1742 Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
• 1783 Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
• 1821 Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curacaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39
• 1831 Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91
• 1831 Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, murdered at 55
• 1832 Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher, dies at 51
• 1844 Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies
• 1868 Alexander Walewski, French earl and Foreign Minister, dies at 58
• 1870 Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
• 1876 Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
• 1883 Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (founded Brahmo Sabha), dies at 61
• 1891 Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
• 1911 Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
• 1915 Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57
• 1915 Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84
• 1915 Remy de Gourmont, French poet, dies at 57
• 1916 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61
• 1917 Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter, sculptor and artist (The Bellelli Family), dies at 83
• 1940 Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
• 1940 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
• 1942 Douglas Munro, only US Coast Guard with WW II-Med of Honor, dies
• 1944 Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist (Pentecostal), dies at 53
• 1944 Aristide Maillol, Fr sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82
• 1944 Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian photographer and chemist, dies at 81
• 1953 Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist, dies at 72
• 1955 Henri Liebrecht, Belgian stagewriter/journalist, dies at 71
• 1956 Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
• 1960 Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78
• 1961 Hilda Doolittle, US poetess (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75
• 1962 Francisco Brochado da Rocha, PM of Brazil (1962), dies at 52
• 1967 Felix Yussupov, Russian aristocrat, dies at 80
• 1972 S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
• 1974 Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
• 1975 Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
• 1981 Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist, dies at 77
• 1982 Saad Sayd, [Abu Walid], Palestinian commandant in Lebanon, dies
• 1988 William V. Shannon, American journalist and ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61
• 1991 Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies
• 1991 Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill/wife of Charles, dies at 66
• 1992 Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies
• 1993 Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38

• 1994 Gerald Bledsoe, DJ (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of heart attack at 51
• 1994 Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71
• 1995 Alison "Night Bird" Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
• 1996 Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (1987-92), executed at 49
• 1997 Walter Trampler, American violist (Beaux Arts Trio), dies at 82
• 2004 John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
• 2007 Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)

• 2010 Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)
• 2014 James A Traficant Jr, American politician, dies at 73

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