Historical Events on September 27

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• 70 Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Roman army

• 1290 Earthquake in the Gulf of Chihli (Bohai Sea) near China, reportedly kills 100,000 people
• 1312 Duke of Brabant John II signs the Charter of Kortenberg creating a Parliament of Kortenberg (The Lords of Kortenberg)
• 1331 Battle of Płowce: Kingdom of Poland defeats the Teutonic Order in a strategic victory
• 1540 Pope Paul III officially recognizes the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) co-founded by Ignatius of Loyola as a religious order of the Catholic church
• 1590 Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history
• 1601 Dutch Moluccan fleet of the Fifth Expedition, under command of Wolfert Harmensz, land on Mauritius suffering from scurvy, where they hunt and document the dodo [1]
• 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
• 1717 French founder of Detroit Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac is imprisoned in the Bastille for speaking “against the government of the state and the colonies ” (freed 1718) [1]

• 1794 French troops conquer Dutch fortress Fort Crèvecoeur after a short siege

• 1830 Dutch army leaves Brussels, after hundreds killed

• 1854 French fishing vessel SS Vesta collides with American passenger paddle-wheel ship SS Arctic off Newfoundland in heavy fog, sinking the larger passenger ship; 322 killed, most of the survivors were crew members
• 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) Missouri: 1700 killed or injured

• 1865 Circus performer James Cooke walks a 150 yard tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks in San Francisco
• 1877 John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti
• 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 led 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
• 1919 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
• 1921 American swimmer Johnny Weismuller sets his first 2 world records in the 100m and 150yd freestyle events the A.A.U. Nationals meet in Brighton Beach, NY
• 1921 MLB NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 21-7 at Polo Grounds, NYC

• 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 US Amateur Championship Men's Golf, Merion GC: Bobby Jones scores an 8 & 7 win over Eugene V. Homans to win his 5th National Amateur title and clinch golf's Grand Slam

• 1931 MLB's Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)
• 1935 Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant
• 1936 Boston Redskins and Brooklyn Dodgers play one of only 4 penalty free games in NFL history; Boston wins 14-3 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn

• 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 twice to Cleveland, 5-2 & 7-5
• 1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England
• 1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces

• 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 Dutch cities Helmond and Oss are liberated

• 1946 King George II of Greece returns from exile to Athens

• 1951 Persian troops occupy oil refinery at Abadan
• 1953 Baltimore Colt Bert Rechichar 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
• 1956 Great Britain commences 'Operation Buffalo' testing four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga, South Australia
• 1957 American MLB San Francisco Giants rent Pacific Coast League San Francisco Seals Stadium until Candlestick Park is built in 1960
• 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 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 Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
• 1964 Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place

• 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 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
• 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1972 1st NHL exhibition game at Nassau Coliseum; NY Rangers beat NY Islanders, 6-4

• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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.
• 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

• 1982 Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize
• 1982 John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show
• 1983 South African worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed from prison after 19 years

• 1985 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket
• 1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast
• 1986 "Give Me Wings" single released by Michael Johnson (Billboard Song of the Year 1987)
• 1986 Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms

• 1987 NFL players' strike begins in the US

• 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 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
• 1988 Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story
• 1988 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes

• 1989 Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title
• 1989 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
• 1990 American punk rocker Dee Dee Ramone arrested for marijuana possession in Washington Square Park, NYC
• 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 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 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 Baltimore 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 by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, for a moon orbit.
• 2005 Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New York Mets
• 2006 MLB Boston Red Sox honor former player Johnny Pesky by officially naming Fenway Park's right-field foul pole "Pesky's Pole"
• 2008 CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.

• 2012 The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed
• 2012 The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
• 2012 UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the Senkoku Islands
• 2013 19 people are killed and 45 are injured in a bus bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
• 2013 60 people are killed after a building collapses in Mumbai, India
• 2013 7 people are killed in mosque bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
• 2013 At least 22 people are killed after a refugee ship capsizes off the island of Java

• 2014 57 people are killed after Mount Ontake erupts in Japan
• 2014 Hawthorn Football Club defeats the Sydney Swans in the 2014 AFL Grand Final 137-74

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