September 27
September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining.
Events
489 - Odoacer attacks Theoderic 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 .
1825 - The Stockton and Darlington Railway was opened. First locomotive pulling a passenger train operated on the line by George Stephenson .
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 Glasgow .
1940 - The Tripartite Pact signed in Berlin by Germany , Japan and Italy .
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.
Births
1275 - John II of Brabant (d. 1312 )
1389 - Cosimo de Medici , Florentine ruler (d. 1464 )
1601 - Louis XIII of France (d. 1643 )
1627 - Jacques Benigne Bossuet , French bishop and author
1719 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , German mathematician (d. 1800 )
1722 - Samuel Adams , American revolutionary leader (d. 1803 )
1803 - Samuel Francis du Pont , American admiral (d. 1865 )
1804 - Anna McNeill Whistler , Whistler's mother (d. 1881 )
1818 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe , German chemist (d. 1884 )
1821 - Henri Frederic Amiel , Swiss writer
1823 - James Streshly Jackson , American Civil War general
1824 - William Nelson , American Civil War general
1830 - William Babcock Hazen , American Civil War general
1840 - Thomas Nast , political cartoonist (d. 1902 )
1843 - Gaston Tarry , French mathematician (d. 1913 )
1849 - Emile Claus , Belgian painter (d. 1924 )
1855 - Paul Appell , French mathematician (d. 1930 )
1871 - Grazia Deledda , Sardinian (Italy ) writer , Nobel prize winner for literature (d. 1926 )
1874 - Koopman Bertha Frensel Wegener , composer
1876 - Earle Raymond Hedrick , mathematician
1879 - Hans Hahn , Austrian mathematician
1879 - Cyril Scott , composer
1885 - Harry Blackstone , magician (d. 1965 )
1892 - Mykhailo Krawtchouk , Ukraininan mathematician
1895 - George Raft , actor (d. 1980 )
1896 - Sam Ervin , US Senator from North Carolina , Watergate scandal figure (d. 1985 )
1898 - Clementine Paddleford , American journalist
1902 - Margaret Herrick , credited with naming the Oscar (d. 1976)
1906 - William Empson , British poet and critic
1907 - Sardar Bhagat Singh , Indian freedom fighter
1913 - Albert Ellis , psychologist
1916 - Vittorio Mussolini , Italian film producer, fascist historian (d. 1997 )
1916 - John Robert Chaisson , Lieutenant General, United States Marine Corps
1919 - James H. Wilkinson , mathematician (d. 1986 )
1920 - William Conrad , actor (d. 1994 )
1920 - Jayne Meadows , actress
1922 - Carl Ballantine , actor
1922 - Arthur Penn , director
1923 - Mary McCarty , actress
1924 - Fred Singer , American environmental scientist
1927 - Romano Scarpa , Italian comic book artist
1929 - Sada Thompson , actress
1932 - Oliver E. Williamson , American economist
1932 - Michael Colvin , Canadian tenor
1933 - Greg Morris , actor
1934 - Wilford Brimley , actor
1934 - Claude Jarman Jr. , actor
1934 - Dick Schapp , sports reporter (d. 2001 )
1936 - Gordon Honeycombe , British author, playwright, and stage actor
1936 - Don Cornelius , television host
1939 - Kathy Whitworth , professional golfer
1940 - Patrick Font
1942 - Dith Pran , photojournalist
1945 - Jack Goldstein , artist
1947 - Randy Bachman , Canadian musician
1947 - Cheryl Tiegs , fashion model
1947 - Barbara Dickson , Scottish singer
1948 - A. Martinez , actor
1949 - Mike Schmidt , Baseball Hall of Famer
1949 - Robb Weller , reporter
1950 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , actor
1951 - Meat Loaf , American singer and actor
1952 - Dumitru Prunariu , Romanian cosmonaut
1953 - Mata Amritanandamayi , Indian religious leader
1953 - Diane Julie Abbott , British politician
1958 - Shaun Cassidy , singer, actor
1961 - Andy Lau , Hong Kong actor, singer
1965 - Peter MacKay , Canadian political leader
1965 - Steve Kerr , NBA basketball player
1967 - Jason Dungjen , figure skater
1972 - Clara Hughes , Canadian cyclist
1976 - Francesco Totti , Italian football player
1981 - Lakshmipathy Balaji , Indian cricketer
1984 - Avril Lavigne , singer, songwriter
Deaths
1249 - Raymond VII of Toulouse
1590 - Pope Urban VII
1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573 )
1700 - Pope Innocent XII
1722 - Grace ; killed by a Dobhar-chu
1832 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause , German philosopher
1876 - Braxton Bragg
1917 - Edgar Degas , painter
1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck , composer
1933 - Ring Lardner , writer
1956 - Gerald Finzi , composer
1956 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias , American athlete and golfer
1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst , suffragette , social activist
1967 - Prince Felix Yussupov , assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887 )
1972 - S. R. Ranganathan , Indian Librarian , invented Colon Classification system
1975 - Jack Lang , Australian politician
1986 - Cliff Burton , musician
1993 - Jimmy Doolittle , United States General, World War II hero
1998 - Doak Walker , football player
1998 - Narita Bryan , Japanese racehorse (b. 1991 )
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
Recorded this date
1891 "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep "(w. Mrs Emma Hart Willard m. Joseph Phillip Knight ) 1891 "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie"(w.m. C. A. White ) 1891 "Emmet's Lullaby"(w.m. J. K. Emmet ) 1891 "The Picture That's Turned To The Wall"(w.m. Charles Graham ) 1891 "Comrades"(Felix McGlennon & Costello) 1891 "Sally In Our Alley "(w. Henry Carey m. trad) 1911 "Alexander's Ragtime Band "(w.m. Irving Berlin ) 1912 "Come Back To Me, My Melody"(Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder ) 1924 "Doodle Doo Doo"(w.m. Art Kassel & Mel Stitzel)Ray Miller & his Orchestra 1927 "Black Eyes"( alternate title "Dark Eyes")Feodor Chaliapin & choir with Aristov Balalaika Orchestra cond. A. A. Scriabin 1928 "Dusky Stevedore"(w. Andy Razaf m. J.C. Johnson ) 1929 "Sensation"(Eddie Edwards )Rube Bloom with Joe Venuti 's Blue Four 1929 "Gay Love"(w. Sidney Clare m. Oscar Levant )Bing Crosby with small group from Paul Whiteman 's Orchestra 1929 "Can't We Be Friends?"(w. Paul James m. Kay Swift ) 1929 "He's A Good Man To Have Around"(w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager )Billy Murray with Dick Cherwin 's Orchestra 1930 "Siboney"(w. Dolly Morse m. Ernesto Lecuona ) 1932 "I'll Never Have To Dream Again"(w. Charles Newman m. Isham Jones )Dorsey Brothers 1932 "Me Minus You"(w. Paul Francis Webster m. Abel Baer ) 1932 "Nothing But A Lie"( Sievier, Rotter, Fred Markush)Gertrude Lawrence with p. Claude Ivy 1932 "Why Waste Your Tears?"( Val Holstius) 1933 "Beautiful Girl"(w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown )Bing Crosby with O/Lenny Hayton 1933 "After Sundown"(w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown) 1933 "Home On The Range"(w. poss. Brewster Higley m. poss Dan E. Kelly) 1933 "The Last Round-Up"(w.m. Billy Hill ) 1933 "Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More"(w. Joe Young & Johnny Burke m. Harold Spina )Carmen Lombardo with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians 1933 "Night And Day"(w.m. Cole Porter )Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra 1933 "Tick-Tock"(w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers ) 1933 "In The Valley Of The Moon"(w.m. Joe Burke & Charles Tobias )Gladys Moncrieff with String octet cond. Gil Dech 1933 "I Wake Up Smiling"(w. Edgar Leslie m. Fred E. Ahlert ) 1933 "By A Waterfall"(w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain )Dick Powell 1935 "Madhouse"(Earl Hines , Jimmy Mundy)Benny Goodman & his Orchestra 1935 "Santa Claus Came In The Spring"(w.m. Johnny Mercer ) 1935 "Goodbye"(w.m. Gordon Jenkins ) 1936 "Rainbow On The River"(w. Paul Francis Webster m. Louis Alter )Perry Como with Ted Weems 1936 "Picture Me Without You"(w. Ted Koehler m. Jimmy McHugh )Ted Weems 1936 "Trouble Ends Out Where The Blue Begins"(w.m. Cliff Friend ) 1938 "Now It Can Be Told"(w.m. Irving Berlin)Al Bowlly with Lew Stone & his Band 1938 "On The Sentimental Side"(w. Johnny Burke m. James V. Monaco ) 1938 "The Holy City"(w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams )Peter Dawson 1938 "Bless This House"(w. Helen Taylor m. May Brahe ) 1938 "The Lost Chord "(w. Adelaide A. Proctor m. Sir Arthur Sullivan ) 1938 "The Lord Is King"(Dawson) 1938 "Poor Man's Garden"( Barrie & Russell) 1938 "There Is No Death"(Geoffrey O'Hara ) 1938 "Down South"(Myddleton)Sam Browne with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra 1938 "Colonel Bogey - March"( m. Kenneth J. Alford ) 1938 "The Whistler And His Dog "( m. Arthur Pryor ) 1938 "King Porter Stomp"(m. Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton) 1938 "Nightmare"(m. Artie Shaw) 1938 "Yesterdays"(w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern ) 1938 "I Have Eyes"(w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger )Artie Shaw & his Orchestra 1938 "You're A Sweet Little Headache"(w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger) 1939 "So Many Times"(w. Don DeVito m. Jimmy Dorsey )Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra 1939 "Indian Summer"(w. Al Dubin m. Victor Herbert ) 1939 "Baby, What Else Can I Do?"(w. Walter Hirsch m. Gerald Marks) 1939 "A Lover Is Blue"(w.m. Charles Carpenter, James R. Mundy & Trummy Young ) 1939 "Adolf"(Mills)Arthur Askey with O/Ronnie Munro 1939 "The Washing On The Siegfried Line"(w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr ) 1939 "Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant-Major"(Noel, Pelosi) 1939 "Run, Rabbit, Run"(w. Noel Gay & Ralph T. Butler m. Noel Gay ) 1940 "All The Things You Are"(w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern) 1941 "No Lika Da War"(Nesham, Stanley Holloway)Stanley Holloway 1943 "Vict'ry Polka"(w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne )Andrews Sisters with O/Vic Schoen 1943 "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town "(w.m. Haven Gillespie & J. Fred Coots ) 1943 "Jingle Bells "(w.m. James S. Pierpont ) 1943 "Pistol Packin' Mama"(w.m. Al Dexter ) 1946 "A Gal In Calico"(w. Leo Robin m. Arthur Schwartz )Johnny Mercer & Pied Pipers with O/Paul Weston 1947 "Bread And Butter Woman"(w.m. Lester Lee & Allan Roberts )Danny Kaye & Andrews Sisters with O/Vic Schoen 1947 "Civilization"(w.m. Bob Hilliard & Carl Sigman ) 1950 "Time Out For Tears"(w.m. Abe Schiff & Irving Berman)Ink Spots 1954 "Make Yourself Comfortable"(w.m. Bob Merrill )Percy Faith 1955 "All At Once You Love Her"(w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers)Perry Como with O/Mitchell Ayres 1955 "The Rose Tattoo"(w.m. Jack Brooks and Harry Warren) 1955 "Pepper-Hot Baby"(w.m. Alicia Evelyn)Jaye P. Morgan with O/Joe Thomas 1955 "Bonnie Blue Gal"(w. William Engvick m. adapt. Jessie Cavanaugh)Lawrence Welk & his Orchestra 1963 "Angry At The Big Oak Tree"(Hampton)Frank Ifield with O/Norrie Paramor 1976 "Dry Your Eyes"(Neil Diamond , Robbie Robertson)Frank Sinatra with O/Bill Miller 1976 "Like A Sad Song"(w.m. John Denver )
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