Today in History
27 September
Alfonsus Maria de' Liguori
John Adams
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| 1290 Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000 |
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| 1312 Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg | ||
| 1509 Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s killed | ||
| 1540 Pope Paul III recognizes Society of Jesus/Order of the Jesuits | ||
| 1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola | ||
| 1601 Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43) was born | ||
| 1657 Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89) was born | ||
| 1677 Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer was born | ||
| 1694 Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 Brit ships sink & 3,000 die | ||
| 1696 Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Ital theologist/bishop/religious order founder was born | ||
| 1777 Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British | ||
| 1777 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 | Alfonsus Maria de' Liguori |
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| 1794 French troops conquer CrŠvecoeur | ||
| 1821 Mexican Empire declares its independence | ||
| 1821 Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw | ||
| 1825 The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England | ||
| 1854 The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean liner occurred when the steamship "Arctic" sank with 300 people aboard | ||
| 1830 Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed | ||
| 1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe | ||
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| 1854 Steamship "Arctic" sinks with 300 people on board | ||
| 1858 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic was born | ||
| 1864 Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson), Missouri: 1700 killed/injured | ||
| 1864 Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed | ||
| 1877 John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti |
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| 1892 Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company | ||
| 1900 Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W 42nd St NYC | ||
| 1910 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France) | ||
| 1916 Emperor Lidj Jasu of Ethiopia flees | ||
| 1919 British troops withdraw from Archangelsk | ||
| 1919 Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members | ||
| 1922 King Constantine I of Greece abdicates | ||
| 1923 Martial law was declared in Germany. | ||
| 1923 Italian troops leave occupied Korfu | ||
| 1928 US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government | ||
| 1936 Franco troops conquer Toledo | ||
| 1936 Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder | John Adams |
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| 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 surrendered to the Germans after 19 days of resistance in World War II. | ||
| 1940 55 German aircrafts shot down above England | ||
| 1940 Nazi-Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis) | ||
| 1941 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched | ||
| 1942 Heavy German assault in Stalingrad | ||
| 1943 Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples | ||
| 1946 King George II of Greece returns from exile | ||
| 1951 Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan | ||
| 1953 Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan | ||
| 1954 1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush | ||
| 1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit | ||
| 1959 A typhoon battered the Japanese island of Honshu, killing almost 5,000 people | ||
| 1960 Europe's 1st "moving pavement," (travelator), opens at Bank station | ||
| 1961 Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN |
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| 1962 The army staged a coup in Yemen, and Col. Abdulla el-Sallah rose to premier. | ||
| 1964 The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy | ||
| 1968 Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year | ||
| 1968 France refuses UK entry into common market | ||
| 1970 Jordan's King Hussein and Al Fatah guerrilla leader Yasser Arafat met in Cairo with 10 Arab chiefs of state and signed an agreement ending civil war in Jordan. | ||
| 1973 The Soviet Union launched a spacecraft into orbit around Earth with two cosmonauts aboard | ||
| 1975 Govt De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain | ||
| 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | ||
| 1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR | ||
| 1985 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket | ||
| 1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast | ||
| 1988 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes | ||
| 1988 The Soviet Union, at the United Nations, called on the United States to join Moscow in creating a world space organization | ||
| 1990 Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly | ||
| 1992 Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163 | ||
| 1994 Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited the White House | ||
| 1996 Islamic Taliban rebels seized control of Kabul and hanged former Afghan President Najibullah | ||
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