About September 27
September 27, 2023 is the 270th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 95 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 136 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 27
- 1422 –after the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- 1529 –The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
- 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 defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
- 1777 –Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
- 1821 –Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
- 1941 –The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
- 1942 –Last 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.
- 1954 –The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
- 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.
- 1959 –Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
- 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.
- 1983 –Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
- 1993 –The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
- 1996 –In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
- 1997 –Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
- 1998 –The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
- 2002 –Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
- 2003 –Smart 1 satellite is launched.
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