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
- 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.
- 1822 –Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
- 1825 –The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world’s first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1937 –Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
- 1940 –World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
- 1949 –The first Plenary Session of the National People’s Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People’s Republic of China.
- 1961 –Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 2001 –Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then kills himself.
- 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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