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
- 1066 –William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
- 1422 –after the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- 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.
- 1605 –The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
- 1669 –The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
- 1821 –Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
- 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.
- 1916 –Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
- 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.
- 1944 –The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
- 1949 –The first Plenary Session of the National People’s Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People’s Republic of China.
- 1964 –The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
- 1983 –Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
- 1996 –In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
- 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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