About September 27
September 27, 2021 is the 270th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 95 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 127 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 27
- 489 –Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
- 1066 –William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
- 1529 –The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
- 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.
- 1669 –The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
- 1777 –Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
- 1825 –The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world’s first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
- 1854 –The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1903 –Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
- 1908 –The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1922 –King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
- 1928 –The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
- 1930 –Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
- 1937 –Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
- 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.
- 1961 –Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
- 1996 –The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
- 2008 –CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
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