Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events: 2 Births: 3 Deaths: 4 Holidays: Events: 489 - Odoacer attacks Theoderic at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again. 1540 - Jesuit Order receives its charter from Pope Paul III 1787 - United States Constitution delivered to the states for ratification 1821 - The Mexican Army finally enters Mexico City after 11 years of Independence War. 1825 - The Stockton and Darlington Railway was opened. First locomotive pulling a passenger train operated on the line by George Stephenson 1954 - The steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean. 1928 - The Republic of China is recognized by the United States. 1938 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow 1939 - Poland surrenders to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. 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 - Debut of "Tonight!" 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 US Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency. 1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter by a knockout in three rounds to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. Then, Hagler, Minter and Vito Antuofermo, who had also boxed that day, have to be taken out of the ring by Scotland Yard after a riot forms. 1983 - Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system. 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. 2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations. 2003 - Smart 1 is launched. Births: 1275 - John II of Brabant 1389 - Cosimo de Medici, Florentine ruler 1601 - Louis XIII of France 1722 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader († 1803) 1818 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist 1840 - Thomas Nast, political cartoonist († 1902) 1871 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (+ 1926) 1885 - Harry Blackstone, magician († 1965) 1895 - George Raft, actor († 1980) 1896 - Sam Ervin, Senator from North Carolina, Watergate scandal figure († 1985) 1913 - Albert Ellis, psychologist 1920 - Jayne Meadows, actress 1920 - William Conrad, actor († 1994) 1922 - Arthur Penn, director 1922 - Carl Ballantine, actor 1927 - Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist 1928 - Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and Prime Minister 1929 - Sada Thompson, actress 1932 - Oliver E. Williamson, American economist 1933 - Greg Morris, actor 1934 - Wilford Brimley, actor 1934 - Dick Schapp, sports reporter († 2001) 1934 - Claude Jarman Jr, actor 1936 - Don Cornelius, television host 1947 - Randy Bachman, Canadian musician 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, fashion model 1948 - A Martinez, actor 1949 - Robb Weller, reporter 1950 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor 1951 - Meat Loaf, American singer and actor 1953 - Diane Julie Abbott, British politician 1958 - Shaun Cassidy, singer, actor 1984 - Avril Lavigne, singer, songwriter Deaths: 1590 - Pope Urban VII 1917 - Edgar Degas, painter 1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, composer 1933 - Ring Lardner, writer 1956 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete 1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, social activist 1993 - James Doolittle, United States General, World War II hero 2003 - Donald O'Connor, actor Holidays: Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mashíyyat (Will) - First day of the eleventh month of the Bahá'í Calendar See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December September 26 - September 28 - August 27 - October 27 - more historical anniversaries This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.