This Day in History for 27th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 195

70 - Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans
489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
1066 - William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England
1290 - Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000
1312 - Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg
1331 - The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
1509 - Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s killed
1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
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 Brit ships sink & 3,000 die
1777 - English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia during American Revolution
1779 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
1787 - Constitution submitted to states for ratification
1794 - French troops conquer Crèvecoeur
1821 - Mexican Empire declares its independence
1821 - Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw
1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 - Railroad transportation is born with 1st track (Stockton-Darlington)
1830 - Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1833 - Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe
1834 - Charles Darwin returns to Valparaiso
1852 - George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," premieres in Troy, NY
1854 - Steamship "Arctic" sinks with 300 people on board
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) American Civil War, Missouri: 1700 killed/injured
1864 - Centralia Massacre (Missouri): 24 unarmed Union soldiers captured and executed by "Bloody Bill" Anderson/Frank
1864 - Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed
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.
Outlaw Jesse James 1905 - 1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues
1905 - Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chic White Sox, 2-0
1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1908 - The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1909 - 29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (61 62 57 16 61)
1910 - 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
1912 - W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912
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
1916 - Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
1917 - Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St NYC
1917 - EHC soccer team forms in Hoensbroek Neth
1919 - British troops withdraw from Archangelsk
1919 - Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members
Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein 1919 - Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
1919 - Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Wash (1st in every park in league in one season)
1921 - Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
1922 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
1923 - Italian troops leave occupied Korfu
1923 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs
1924 - Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating Phils 5-1
1928 - US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government
1928 - The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
1930 - 34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1930 - Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
1930 - White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns
1931 - Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)
1931 - Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's
1935 - Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1936 - 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game
1936 - Franco troops conquer Toledo
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 practice in Germany
1938 - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China
1938 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched at Glasgow
1939 - Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
1939 - White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 & 7-5
1940 - 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
1940 - Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller
1940 - Nazi-Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco 1940 - Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant for 1st time since 1935
1941 - 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched
1942 - Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
1942 - NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general
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 - Helmond & Oss Neth liberated
1946 - King George II of Greece returns from exile
1947 - "Sweethearts" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 288 performances
1948 - "Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 36 performances
1950 - Dr Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize
1950 - Ezzard Charles beats Joe Louis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in 15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx NY.
Diplomat and Nobel Laureate Ralph Bunche 1951 - Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan
1953 - Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 264

1275 - John II of Brabant (d. 1312)
1389 - Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence and patron of the arts (d. 1464)
1600 - John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, baptised
1601 - Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43)
1627 - Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (Louis XIV court preacher), (d. 1704)
1637 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer
1643 - Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman
1657 - Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89)
1677 - Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer
1696 - Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Ital theologist/bishop/religious order founder
1719 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
1722 - Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser/(Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94)
1729 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist (d. 1800)
1772 - Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
1776 - Maria E J Versfelt, actress/mistress (General Moreau & Marshal Ney)
1783 - Agustin I de Iturbide, emperor of Mexico (1822-23)
1786 - Jose Mariano Elizaga, composer
1792 - George Cruikshank, London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist)
1803 - Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1865
Bishop and Writer Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627) 1805 - George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
1809 - Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1877
1817 - Hiram R Revels, Fayetteville NC, 1st black US senator
1821 - Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Grains de Mil)
1824 - William Nelson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1830 - William Babcock Hazen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1835 - John Murray Corse, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893 [or 4/27]
1838 - Antony E J Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83)
1840 - Alfred Thayer Mahan, US, naval officer (Influence of Sea Power)
1840 - Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America
1842 - Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
1843 - Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
1858 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic
1858 - Porsteinn Erlingsson, Iceland, poet (Pyrnar)
1862 - Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st PM of South Africa (1910-19)
1864 - Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author
1864 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic Priest (d. 1938)
1866 - Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Fra Cancelliraadens Dage)
1866 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (d. 1932)
1867 - Rosa Lewis, society caterer/owner (Cavandish Hotel-England)
1871 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1879 - Cyril M Scott, English pianist/composer/author (Heroic Suite)
1879 - Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)
1881 - Ernest Samuel Williams, composer
1881 - Johanna "Annie" Bakker, Dutch revue-artist/singer/actress
1881 - William J Clothier, 1st pres of tennis hall of fame/(US Open-1906)
1885 - Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
1887 - Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch & Perlemoer, Boefje)
1892 - John Mylong, Austria, actor (Robot Monsters)
1893 - Joannes DM Cornelissen, Dutch historian (Hooft & Tacitus)
1894 - Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
1894 - Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922)
1895 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (d. 1948)
1896 - George Bender, Cleveland, (Rep/Sen-R-Oh)
1896 - Sam Ervin, (Sen-D-NC), Watergate committee chairman (d. 1985)
1898 - Vincent (Miller) Youmans, US composer/songwriter (Tea for Two)
1902 - Miguel Aleman Valdes, Mexican attorney/president (1946-52)
1905 - Ernest Baier, Germany, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
1905 - Vjekoslav Kaleb, Yugoslavia, writer (Splendor of the Fabric)
1906 - William Empson, English poet/critic (Milton's God)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977)
1907 - Bernard Miles, British actor (In Which We Serve, Mermaid Theatre)
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1908 - Shiv Verma, soldier
1909 - Jean Berger, composer
1910 - Donald Lindsay, headmaster (Malvern College)
1910 - Eve March, CA, actress (Curse of the Cat People)
1910 - Giles William Playfair, writer
1911 - Peter Muir Doig, politician
1912 - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP
1912 - Tauno Marttinen, composer
1912 - Mary Grierson, Bangor, Wales, botanical artist, (d. 2012)
1913 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist (d. 2007)
1916 - Samuel S Stratton, (Rep-D-NY, 1959- )
1916 - Frank Handlen, American artist
1917 - Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence NY, lawyer/novelist (Watchfires)
1917 - William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)
1918 - Jame McCallion, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Mi Taylor-National Velvet)
1918 - Lord Shepherd
1918 - Martin Ryle, Britain, radio astronomer/astronomer royal (1972-82)
1919 - Charles H Percy, (Sen-R-Ill)
1919 - Earl of Clanwilliam
1919 - James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
1919 - Johnny Pesky, American baseball player, (d. 2012)
1920 - J K Gill, president (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1920 - William Conrad, Louisville Ky, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Cannon)
1920 - Jayne Meadows, American actress
1921 - D E Nineham, theologian
1922 - Arthur Penn, Phila, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde)
1922 - Carl Ballantine, actor (McHale's Navy)
1922 - James Wilson, composer
1923 - Mary McCarty, Winfield Ks, actress/singer (Starch-Trapper John MD)
1924 - Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer
1924 - Bernard Waber, American author
1924 - Fred Singer, American scientist
1924 - Josef Skvorecky, Czechoslovakia, writer and publisher (End of the Nylon Age, The Cowards) (d. 2012)
1925 - Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate (Daily Mail, Evening News)
1926 - Jayne Meadows, Wu Chang China, Mrs Steve Allen, actr (Dark Delusion)
1927 - Boris Porena, composer
1927 - Eli van der Merwe Louw, S Afr minister of Transport/Manpower
1927 - Patrick O'Neal, actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 8 of 8

1945 - Actor Richard Cromwell (35) weds actress Angela Lansbury (19) in Independence, California
1947 - Fantasy and sci-fiction writer Ray Bradbury (27) weds Marguerite McClure (25)
1997 - Grammy Award winning singer-rapper Coolio (34) weds Los Angeles DJ Josefa Salinas (37) in Las Vegas
1997 - "The Cosby Show" actress Erika Alexander (28) weds screenwriter Tony Puryear (40) on outdoor ceremony in Malibu
1998 - "The Mummy" actor Brendan Fraser (30) weds actress Afton Smith (32) at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California
2008 - Actress and singer Scarlett Johansson (23) weds film actor Ryan Reynolds (31) at Clayoquot Wilderness Retreat in Tofino, British Columbia
2008 - "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" actress Kaitlin Olson (33) weds actor Rob McElhenney (31) at the Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu, California
2009 - Businesswoman and TV personality Khloe Kardashian (28) weds NBA basketball forward Lamar Odom (32) in Beverly Hills, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 107

1249 - Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
1259 - Ezzeline III da Romano, gentleman of Verona/"cruel monster", dies
1304 - John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier
1404 - William of Wykeham, chancellor/Bishop of Winchester, dies
1557 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
1566 - Marcus A Vida, [Marcus Hieronymus], Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies
1590 - Urban VII, [Giambattista Castagna], Italian Pope (1590), dies
1612 - Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/PM (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76
1615 - Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)
1617 - Johan Earnest count of Nassau-Siegen, dies
1641 - Francois van d'aerssen, mister of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69
1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, dies at 78
1660 - St Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies
1674 - Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies
1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies
1700 - Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700), dies at 85
1719 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
1730 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
1735 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
1737 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)
1742 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
1783 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
1784 - Boniface Stoecki, composer, dies at 38
1808 - Gaetano B Vestris, ballerina, dies at 79
1821 - Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curacaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39
1831 - Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91
1831 - Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, murdered at 55
1844 - Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies
1868 - Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies
1870 - Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1876 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
1911 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
1915 - Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57
1915 - Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84
1915 - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
1916 - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61
1917 - Edgar Degas, painter, Paris
1919 - Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76
1919 - Robert Gleeson, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Ger opera composer (Schneewittchen), dies at 67
1935 - Alan Gray, composer, dies at 79
1940 - Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
1940 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1942 - Douglas Munro, only US Coast Guard with WW II-Med of Honor, dies
1943 - Waclaw Gieburowski, composer, dies at 65
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
1948 - Frank Cellier, actor (Spider, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade), dies at 64
1953 - Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist, dies at 72
1955 - Henri Liebrecht, Belgian stagewriter/journalist, dies at 71
1956 - Gerald Raphael Finzi, composer, dies at 55
1956 - Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1956 - [Mildred] Babe Didrikson-Zaharias, javelin (Oly-gold-32), dies at 45
1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78
1961 - Hilda Doolittle, US poetess (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75
1962 - Francisco Brochado da Rocha, PM of Brazil (1962), dies at 52
Silent Screen Actress Clara Bow (1965) 1965 - Clara Bow, US actress, dies at 60
1965 - Harry Reser, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69
1967 - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch, dies at 80
1969 - Violet Farebrother, actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), dies at 81
1972 - Rory Storm, lead singer (Rory Storm & Hurricane), commits suicide
1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1974 - Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
1975 - Mark Frechette, actor (Zabriskie Point, Uomini Contro), dies at 27
1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
1979 - Gracie Fields, actress (Queen of Hearts), dies at 81
1979 - Jimmy McCullough, musician (Wings), dies of a drug overdose
1981 - Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist, dies at 77
1981 - Robert Montgomery, actor/dir (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 77
1982 - Saad Sayd, [Abu Walid], Palestinian commandant in Lebanon, dies
1983 - Tino Rossi, singer/actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
1984 - John Facenda, sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at 72
1985 - Lloyd Nolan, actor (Dr Chegley-Julia), dies of lung cancer at 83
1986 - Cliff Burton, rock bassist (Metallica), dies in bus crash at 24
1988 - William V Shannon, US ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61
1991 - Huib Orizand, Dutch actor (Paul Vlanderen), dies
1991 - Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies
1991 - Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill/wife of Charles, dies at 66
1992 - Keith Prentice, US actor (Boys in the Band), dies
1992 - Keith Prentice, US actor (Boys in the Band), dies of cancer at 52
1992 - Ray Gill, actor (Prelude to a Kiss), dies of AIDS at 42
1992 - Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies
1993 - Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38
1993 - James H Doolittle, US air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96
1994 - Gerald Bledsoe, DJ (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of heart attack at 51
1994 - Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71
1994 - Ruth Niehaus, dies
1995 - Alison "Night Bird" Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
1995 - Christopher Shaw, composer pianist/critic, dies at 71
1996 - Mohammed Najibullah, politician, dies at 55
1996 - Najibullah, Pres of Afghanistan Democratic Party (1986-90), executed
1997 - Walter Trampler, American violist (b. 1915)
1998 - Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
1998 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
2003 - Donald O'Connor, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
2005 - Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)
2007 - Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)
2008 - Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934)