What happened on September 27? There are more than 314 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 27
September 27 is the 271st day of the year 2024. There are 95 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 39th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Marmora, New Jersey 08223 sunrise will occur at 06:50 AM and sunset will occur at 06:48 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 124 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 27
- 489Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
- 1066William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
- 1331The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
- 1422after the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- 1529The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
- 1540The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
- 1590Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
- 1605The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
- 1669The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
- 1777Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
- 1821Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
- 1822Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
- 1825The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world’s first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
- 1854The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1903Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
- 1905The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
- 1908The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1916Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
- 1922King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
- 1928The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
- 1930Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
- 1937Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
- 1938Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
- 1940World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
- 1941The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
- 1942Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
- 1944The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
- 1949The first Plenary Session of the National People’s Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People’s Republic of China.
- 1954The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
- 1956USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
- 1959Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
- 1961Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
- 1962The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
- 1964The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
- 1968The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
- 1979The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
- 1983Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
- 1993The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
- 1995The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the 0 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
- 1996In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
- 1996The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
- 1997Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
- 1998The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
- 2001Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then kills himself.
- 2002Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
- 2003Smart 1 satellite is launched.
- 2008CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
Who Were Born On September 27?
- 823Ermentrude of Orléans, consort of Charles the Bald (d. 869)
- 1271Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
- 1275John II of Brabant (d. 1312)
- 1389Cosimo de' Medici, Italian art patron and de facto ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
- 1544Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai (d. 1579)
- 1601King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
- 1627Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop (d. 1704)
- 1643Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman
- 1657Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
- 1696Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian Catholic bishop (d. 1787)
- 1719Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
- 1722Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)
- 1729Michael Denis, Austrian poet (d. 1800)
- 1765Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French counterrevolutionary (d. 1794)
- 1772Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
- 1803Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
- 1805George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
- 1818Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
- 1821Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss writer (d. 1881)
- 1824William “Bull” Nelson, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
- 1830William Babcock Hazen, American Civil War general (d. 1887)
- 1838Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American Confederate general and 19th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)
- 1840Thomas Nast, German-born American political cartoonist (d. 1902)
- 1842Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
- 1843Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
- 1861Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1933)
- 1864Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic Priest (d. 1938)
- 1866Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (d. 1932)
- 1871Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
- 1879Cyril Scott, English composer (d. 1970)
- 1879Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)
- 1885Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian industrialist and politician (d. 1964)
- 1885Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
- 1894Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922)
- 1894Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
- 1895Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (d. 1948)
- 1896Sam Ervin, American politician (d. 1985)
- 1898Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (d. 1946)
- 1904Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and politician (d. 1981)
- 1906Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977)
- 1906William Empson, British poet (d. 1984)
- 1907Bernard Miles, English character actor, writer and director (d. 1991)
- 1907Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
- 1907Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher (d. 2003)
- 1911John Harvey, actor (d. 1982)
- 1911Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (d. 2009)
- 1913Albert Ellis, American psychologist (d. 2007)
- 1916Frank Handlen, American artist
- 1916S. Yizhar, Israeli author (d. 2006)
- 1917Carl Ballantine, American magician and entertainer (d. 2009)
- 1917Louis Auchincloss, American novelist (d. 2010)
- 1917William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)
- 1918Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
- 1919Charles H. Percy, American politician (d. 2011)
- 1919James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
- 1919Johnny Pesky, American baseball player
- 1920Jayne Meadows, American actress
- 1920William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1921Milton Subotsky, American TV and film producer (d. 1991)
- 1922Arthur Penn, American director (d. 2010)
- 1922Sammy Benskin, African American pianist and bandleader (d. 1992)
- 1924Bernard Waber, American author
- 1924Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (d. 1966)
- 1924Fred Singer, American scientist
- 1924Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer and publisher
- 1927Chrysostomos I, Greek orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus (d. 2007)
- 1927Red Rodney, jazz trumpeter (d. 1994)
- 1927Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist (d. 2005)
- 1927Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
- 1929Barbara Murray, English actress
- 1929Calvin Jones, American trombonist, bassist, pianist, bandleader, composer and educator (d. 2004)
- 1931Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer
- 1932Gabriel Loubier, Canadian politician
- 1932Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1932Michael Colvin, British politician
- 1932Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
- 1932Roger C. Carmel, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1932Yash Chopra, Indian director
- 1933Greg Morris, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1933Rodney Cotterill, Danish-born English physicist (d. 2007)
- 1933Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1934Claude Jarman Jr., American actor
- 1934Dick Schaap, American sports reporter (d. 2001)
- 1934Wilford Brimley, American actor
- 1935Al MacNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1936Don Cornelius, American television host
- 1936Gordon Honeycombe, British playwright
- 1938Jean-Loup Dabadie, French lyricist and screenwriter
- 1939Carol Lynn Pearson, American poet and writer
- 1939Ioannis Banias, Greek politician
- 1939Kathy Whitworth, American golfer
- 1940Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
- 1941Don Nix, songwriter, composer, arranger, musician, and author
- 1941Gay Kayler, Australian country music singer
- 1941Peter Bonetti, English footballer
- 1941Serge Ménard, Québécois politician
- 1942Alvin Stardust, English singer
- 1942Dith Pran, Cambodian photojournalist (d. 2008)
- 1943Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat
- 1943Randy Bachman, Canadian musician
- 1944Gary Sutherland, American baseball player
- 1945Bob Spiers, British television director (d. 2008)
- 1945Jack Goldstein, Canadian artist (d. 2003)
- 1945Kay Ryan, American poet
- 1945Max Boyce, Welsh comedian
- 1946Nicos Anastasiades, Greek-Cypriot politician, leader of Democratic Rally
- 1946Robin Nedwell, English comedy actor (d. 1999)
- 1946T.C. Cannon, American artist (d. 1978)
- 1947Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer
- 1947Denis Lawson, Scottish actor
- 1947Liz Torres, American actress and singer
- 1947Meat Loaf, American singer
- 1948A Martinez, American actor
- 1948Duncan Fletcher, Rhodesian-born Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
- 1948Les Chapman, English footballer and football manager
- 1948Michele Dotrice, English actress
- 1948Robin Jackson, Northern Irish loyalist (d. 1998)
- 1948Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor
- 1949Graham Richardson, Australian politician
- 1949Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer
- 1949Mike Schmidt, American baseball player
- 1950Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese actor
- 1951David Starobin, American classical guitarist, record producer, and film director
- 1951Jim Shooter, American comic book writer
- 1951Michel Rivard, Québécois singer and composer (Beau Dommage)
- 1951Paul Craig, British law professor
- 1952André Viger, French Canadian marathoner
- 1952Didier Dubois, French mathematician
- 1952Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian cosmonaut
- 1952Katie Fforde, née Gordon-Cumming, British writer
- 1953Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer
- 1953Diane Julie Abbott, British politician
- 1953Greg Ham, Australian musician and songwriter (Men at Work)
- 1953Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader
- 1953Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican bassist and producer
- 1954Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and conductor
- 1954Ray Hadley, Australian radio broadcaster
- 1958Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
- 1958Shaun Cassidy, American singer
- 1959Beth Heiden, American speed skater
- 1960Barron Lerner, American physician and historian
- 1960Jean-Marc Barr, French-American actor and director
- 1961Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
- 1963Marc Maron, American comedian
- 1964Stephan Jenkins, American singer (Third Eye Blind)
- 1965Alexis Stewart, American radio personality
- 1965Bernard Lord, Canadian politician
- 1965Peter MacKay, Canadian politician
- 1965Ricky Fuji, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1965Steve Kerr, American basketball player
- 1966Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut
- 1966Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian footballer
- 1968Mari Kiviniemi, Finnish politician
- 1968Patrick Muldoon, American actor
- 1969Sofia Milos, American actress
- 1970Tamara Taylor, American actress
- 1970Wes Carroll, vocal percussionist
- 1970Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player
- 1971Aaron Belz, American poet
- 1971Amanda Detmer, American actress
- 1971Li Yapeng, Chinese actor
- 1972Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist
- 1972Craig L. Rice, American politician
- 1972Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
- 1972Lhasa de Sela, American singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1972Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player
- 1974Carrie Brownstein, American musician, writer, and actress
- 1975Thanos Petrelis, Greek singer
- 1976Dean Butterworth, English drummer
- 1976Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
- 1976Jason Phillips, American baseball player
- 1976Matt Harding, American video game developer
- 1978Ani Lorak, Ukrainian singer and actress
- 1978Jon Rauch, American baseball player
- 1978Thomas Gates, American rugby league footballer
- 1979Christian Jones, Australian racing driver
- 1979Jon Garland, American baseball player
- 1979La'Myia Good, American singer and actress
- 1979Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1979Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model
- 1980Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna
- 1980Ehron VonAllen, American singer
- 1981Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer
- 1981Cytherea, American adult actress
- 1981Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
- 1981Sophie Crumb, American comics artist
- 1982Anna Camp, American actress
- 1982Darrent Williams, American football player (d. 2007)
- 1982Lil Wayne, American rapper
- 1982Zero Kazama, Japanese-American game show host
- 1983Jeon Hye Bin, Korean actress
- 1983Shermon Tang, Hong Kong actress
- 1983Travis MacRae, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1984Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1984Chris Nelson, Scottish Hockey player
- 1984Davide Capello, Italian footballer
- 1984John Lannan, American baseball player
- 1984Paul Bevan, Australian rules footballer
- 1985Massimo Bertocchi, Canadian decathlete
- 1986Ricardo Risatti, Argentine racecar driver
- 1986Vin Mazzaro, American baseball player
- 1987Austin Carlile, American musician (Attack Attack!, Of Mice & Men)
- 1989Park Tae-Hwan, South Korean swimmer
- 1992Jake Burbage, American actor
- 1992Luc Castaignos, Dutch footballer
- 1995Lina Leandersson, Swedish actress
Who Died On September 27?
- 1249Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
- 1404William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)
- 1557Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
- 1590Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
- 1615Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)
- 1651Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
- 1660Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)
- 1700Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
- 1719George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
- 1730Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
- 1735Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
- 1737John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)
- 1742Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
- 1783Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
- 1832Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)
- 1833Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1772)
- 1838Bernard Courtois, French chemist (b. 1777)
- 1876Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
- 1886Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist (b. 1804)
- 1891Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
- 1911Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
- 1915Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
- 1917Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
- 1921Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
- 1940Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
- 1940Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
- 1944Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (b. 1890)
- 1956Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)
- 1956Gerald Finzi, English composer (b. 1901)
- 1960Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882)
- 1965Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1965Sir William Stanier, British railway engineer (b. 1876)
- 1967Felix Yusupov, Russian prince, participated in the murder of Grigori Rasputin (b. 1887)
- 1972Rory Storm, British singer (b. 1939)
- 1972S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
- 1974Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
- 1975Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
- 1979Dame Gracie Fields, British comedian (b. 1898)
- 1979Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish guitarist (b. 1953)
- 1981Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1983Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist (b. 1911)
- 1984Chronis Exarhakos, Greek actor (b. 1932)
- 1985Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
- 1986Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962)
- 1991Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and 4th wife of Charlie Chaplin (b. 1926)
- 1993Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
- 1997Walter Trampler, American violist (b. 1915)
- 1998Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
- 1998Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
- 2003Donald O'Connor, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2004John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
- 2005Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)
- 2007Dale Houston, American singer (Dale & Grace) (b. 1940)
- 2007Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)
- 2008Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934)
- 2009Charles Houston, American mountaineer (b. 1913)
- 2009Ivan Dykhovichnyy, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
- 2009William Safire, American Columnist (b. 1929)
- 2010Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)
- 2010George Blanda, American football player (b. 1927)
- 2011Johnny “Country” Mathis, American country singer (b. 1933)
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