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Today in History ~ September 27
Events0070 - Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans
1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Spanish soldier, Ignatius Loyola
1777 - Battle of Germantown; Washington's army defeated by British, English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia
1779 - John Adams was named to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.
1787 - Constitution submitted to states for ratification
1821 - Mexican Empire declares its independence, Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw
1825 - In England, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive to pull a passenger train.
1834 - Charles Darwin returns to Valparaiso
1852 - "Uncle Tom's Cabin," premieres in Troy, NY
1854 - The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean liner occurred when the steamship Arctic sank with 300 people aboard. [H]
1855 - George F 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/injured
1864 - William "Bloody Bill" Anderson sacks the town of Centralia, Missouri [H]
1869 - After only five weeks in office as sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas, Wild Bill Hickok, found it necessary to kill his second man in the name of preserving peace. [H]
1892 - Diamond Match Company bought the patent for book matches [T]
1910 - 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
1912 - W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912
1916 - 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians
1919 - British troops withdraw from Archangel
1928 - The United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.
1936 - Franco troops conquer Toledo
1937 - 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1938 - Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
1938 - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China
1938 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched at Glasgow; The RMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest passenger liner built to that date, boasted a 200,000-horsepower engine and beautiful art deco style. The elegant ocean liner was named to honor Queen Elizabeth, a consort of King George VI of England and mother to Queen Elizabeth II.
1939 - After 19 days of heavy air raids and artillery bombardment, and weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union the Polish defenders of Warsaw surrendered to the Germans.
1940 - 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
1940 - Nazi-Germany, Italy & Japan sign a formal alliance called Tripartite Pact, a 10 year military and economic alliance strengthening the Axis alliance.
1942 - Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, "Butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general
1942 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra performed together for the last time, at the Central Theater in Passaic, N.J., prior to Miller's entry into the Army.
1951 - Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan
1953 - Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan
1954 - School integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore Md public schools
1954 - "Tonight!" hosted by Steve Allen, made its debut on NBC TV.
1959 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
1959 - Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000
1959 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concluded his visit to the United States.
1960 - Europe's 1st "moving pavement," (travelator), opens at Bank station
1963 - At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico
1964 - The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy. [H]
1968 - France vetoes UK entry into common market
1974 - Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000
1979 - Congress gave final approval to forming the Department of Education, the 13th Cabinet agency in U.S. history.
1982 - Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again"
1986 - Senate joins House of Reps voting for "sweeping tax reforms"
1987 - NFL players' strike
1987 - Mudslides in slum areas of Medellin, Colombia, killed up to 500 people.
1988 - Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story
1988 - Lab tests show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth
1989 - Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
1991 - President Bush announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.
1991 - The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1991 - The PLO legislature voted to support U.S. and Soviet-sponsored Middle East peace efforts.
1992 - The Inkatha party, rival to Nelson Mandela's ANC, withdrew from talks with the South African government after a meeting between Mandela and President de Klerk.
1993 - In the wake of the Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Texas, the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Stephen Higgins, announced his resignation.
1993 - Newly elected Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, D-Texas, was indicted for using state workers, computers and supplies for her "personal benefit" during her Senate campaign.
1994 - U.S. forces in Haiti took control of the parliament building and began paying Haitians to turn in weapons in order to reduce firepower on the streets.
1995 - The U.S. government unveiled its redesigned $100 bill, featuring a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, seized control of Afghanistan from the previous rebel group that'd taken the country back from Moscow's control. The new rebels hanged Afghani leader Najibullah and his brother, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, and started to enforced strict Islamic law across the nation
1998, Gerhard Schroder led Germany's Social Democratic Party to victory in parliamentary elections, bringing to an end 16 years of power by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democratic Party.
1998, Hurricane Georges struck the Gulf Coast, spawning tornadoes and bringing heavy rains and flooding to parts of the South.
1998, St. Louis Cardinal slugger Mark McGwire set an all-time major-league season homerun record when he hit his 70th home run.
2000 - In Sydney, Australia, the U.S. Olympic baseball team beat Cuba 4-0 to capture its first baseball gold medal.
2000 - Venus Williams became only the second player to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Olympics in the same year with her 6-2, 6-4 victory over Elena Dementieva. (The first was Steffi Graf, in 1988.)
Birthdays Today
1601 - Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43). He ascended to the throne at the age of nine following the assassination of his father Louis XII. At 17, he seized control of the empire from his mother Marie de' Medici. Louis XIII proved to be a strongly pro-Catholic ruler.
1696 - Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Ital theologian/bishop/religious order founder
1722 - Samuel Adams, revolutionary patriot, rabble rouser/ (Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94)
1792 - George Cruikshank, London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist)
1803 - Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1865
1809 - Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1877
1840 - Alfred Thayer Mahan, US, naval officer (Influence of Sea Power)
1840 - Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America
1896 - Sam Ervin, (Sen-D-NC), Watergate committee chairman
1898 - Vincent (Miller) Youmans (musician, composer: Hit the Deck, Great Day!, No, No Nanette [w/Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II], I Know that You Know [w/Harbach], More than You Know, Rise 'n' Shine, Flying Down to Rio, The Carioca)
1917 - Gardner Dickinson (golf)
1917 - Johnny Pesky (baseball)
1917 - Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence NY, lawyer/novelist (Watchfires)
1920 - William Conrad (actor: Cannon, Jake and the Fatman, Sorry, Wrong Number, Killers, Naked Jungle; TV narrator: The Bullwinkle Show; radio: Marshall Dillon in Gunsmoke)
1922 - Arthur Penn (director: Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant, The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man, Night Moves)
1926 - Jayne Meadows (Cotter) (actress: City Slickers, Murder by Numbers, Lady in the Lake, The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, Medical Center; panelist: I've Got a Secret; wife of Steve Allen; sister of Audrey Meadows)
1929 - Sada Thompson (Emmy Award-winning actress: Family [1977-78]; Tony Award-winning actress: Twigs [1972]; Our Town, Desperate Characters)
1930 - Igor Kipnis, Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor (Fairfield)
1933 - Kathleen Nolan (actress: The Real McCoys, Jamie, Broadside; Screen Actor's Guild president)
1934 - Greg Morris (actor: Mission: Impossible, Vegas, The Doomsday Flight; father of Phil Morris [New Mission: Impossible])
1934 - Wilford Brimley (actor: Cocoon, The Natural, Tender Mercies, The Firm, Absence of Malice, The China Syndrome, The Electric Horseman, Our House)
1939 - Kathy Whitworth (golf champion: Nabisco Dinah Shore [1977], LPGA [1967, 1971, 1975)
1941 - Don Nix (musician: baritone sax: group: The Barkays, Booker T and the M.G.'s, Memphis Horns; composer: Goin' Down)
1941 - Labron Harris (golfer)
1944 - Gary Sutherland (baseball)
1945 - Misha Dichter, Shanghai China, pianist (Tchaikowsy 2nd prize-1966)
1947 - Meat Loaf (Marvin Aday) (musician, singer: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, Paradise by the Dashboard Light; actor: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Americathon, Roadie)
1948 - Cheryl Tiegs (model)
1949 - Mike "Jack" Schmidt (Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Phillies Golden Glove, All-Star third baseman: Baseball Writers' Award [1980, 1981, 1986])
1949 - Robb Weller (TV host: Win, Lose or Draw, Entertainment Tonight)
1958 - Shaun Cassidy (singer: Da Doo Ron Ron, That's Rock 'N' Roll, Hey Deanie, Do You Believe In Magic; actor: The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Breaking Away, General Hospital; Blood Brothers; son of Jack Cassidy & Shirley Jones; half-brother of David Cassidy)
1959 - Beth Heiden, Madison Wisc, 3000m speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1980)
Famous deaths
1259 - Ezzeline III da Romano, gentleman of Verona/"cruel monster".
1404 - William of Wykeham, chancellor/Bishop of Winchester.
1660 - St Vincent de Paul, Vincentian founder.
1831 - Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, murdered at 55
1870 - Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1917 - Edgar Degas, painter, Paris
1919 - Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76
1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Ger opera composer (Hansel & Gretel), dies at 67
1944 - Aimee Semple McPherson, Canada/US evangelist/faith healer, dies at 53
1944 - Aristide Maillol, Fr sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82
1956 - Gerald Raphael Finzi, composer, dies at 55
1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst (Feminist), who with her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst, had established the militant Women's Social and Political Union in 1903.
1967 - Felix F Yussupov, litigious Russian monarchist/slayer of Rasputin, dies at 80
1991 - Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill/wife of Charles, dies at 66
1993 - James H Doolittle, US air force general (led first raid over Tokyo 1942), dies at 96
1996 - Mohammed Najibullah, Pres of Afghanistan Democratic Party (1986-90), executed
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