September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 95 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
NATIONAL CRUSH A CAN DAY
NATIONAL CRUSH A CAN DAY
1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year-long Siege of Candia.
1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
1905 – The 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.
1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit,Michigan.
1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
1722 – Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1803)
1838 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general and politician, 19th Governor of Texas, Sul Ross University (d. 1898)
1894 – Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot, The Red Baron (d. 1922)
1919 – James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 – Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and playwright
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1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbaniand executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbaniand executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
2003 – SMART-1 (Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology-1) ESA satellite is launched. The spacecraft was intentionally crashed into the Lunar surface at the end of its mission in 2006.
2007 – NASA launches the Dawn probe with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies
2007 – NASA launches the Dawn probe with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
1722 – Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1803)
1838 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general and politician, 19th Governor of Texas, Sul Ross University (d. 1898)
1894 – Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot, The Red Baron (d. 1922)
1919 – James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 – Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and playwright
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