About September 27
September 27, 2024 is the 271st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 95 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 124 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 27
- 1331 –The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
- 1540 –The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
- 1590 –Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
- 1822 –Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
- 1903 –Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
- 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 Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1949 –The first Plenary Session of the National People’s Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People’s Republic of China.
- 1956 –USAF 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.
- 1962 –The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
- 1968 –The 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.
- 1979 –The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
- 1996 –In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
- 1996 –The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
- 1997 –Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
- 1998 –The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
- 2001 –Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then kills himself.
- 2002 –Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
- 2003 –Smart 1 satellite is launched.
- 2008 –CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
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