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Birthday September 27, 1601 Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43) |
Birthday September 27, 1657 Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89) |
Birthday September 27, 1722 Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser |
Birthday September 27, 1783 Agust¡n I de Iturbide, emperor of Mexico (1822-23) |
Birthday September 27, 1792 George Cruikshank, English illustrator |
Birthday September 27, 1825 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England |
Birthday September 27, 1840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America |
Birthday September 27, 1875 Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist (Old Man of the Mtn) (Nobel 1926) |
Birthday September 27, 1896 Sam Ervin, (D-Sen), Watergate Committee chairman |
Birthday September 27, 1918 Sir Martin Ryle, British radio astronomer, astronomer royal 1972-82 |
Birthday September 27, 1919 Charles H Percy, (R-Sen-Ill) |
Birthday September 27, 1922 Arthur Penn, stage & film director |
Birthday September 27, 1926 Jane Meadows, AKA Mrs Steve Allen in Wu Chang China |
Birthday September 27, 1929 Sada Thompson, in Des Moines Iowa |
Birthday September 27, 1933 Kathy Nolan, in St Louis Mo |
Birthday September 27, 1934 Barbara Hower, Washington Post writer |
Birthday September 27, 1947 Cheryl Tiegs, in Minnesota - A model's figure |
Birthday September 27, 1952 Dumitru Prunariu, 1st Rumanian space traveler (on board Soyuz 40) |
Birthday September 27, 1958 Shaun Cassidy |
History September 27, 1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola |
History September 27, 1540 Jesuit order established |
History September 27, 1777 Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British |
History September 27, 1779 John Jay is appointed minister to Spain |
History September 27, 1787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification |
History September 27, 1854 Ships collide off Newfoundland |
History September 27, 1854 Steamer Arctic is lost |
History September 27, 1864 Confederate guerillas sack Centralia, Missouri |
History September 27, 1869 Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok proves too wild for Kansas |
History September 27, 1881 Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12 |
History September 27, 1915 John Kipling killed at the Battle of Loos |
History September 27, 1919 Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike outs |
History September 27, 1919 Democratic National Committee voted to admit women |
History September 27, 1921 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds |
History September 27, 1923 Lou Gehrig's 1st homer |
History September 27, 1930 Bobby Jones wins U.S. Amateur title |
History September 27, 1938 Franklin Roosevelt appeals to Hitler for peace |
History September 27, 1938 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow |
History September 27, 1939 Poland surrenders |
History September 27, 1940 Floyd Giebells 1st game 2-0 pennent clinching beating Bob Feller |
History September 27, 1940 The Tripartite Pact is signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan |
History September 27, 1941 1st WWII liberty ship freighter Patrick Henry launched |
History September 27, 1942 NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down |
History September 27, 1954 Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiers |
History September 27, 1959 Khrushchev ends trip to the United States |
History September 27, 1960 Sylvia Pankhurst dies |
History September 27, 1962 US sells Israel Hawk anti-aircraft missiles |
History September 27, 1964 Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone |
History September 27, 1967 Antiwar sentiment increases |
History September 27, 1967 My Mother, The Car exported to France |
History September 27, 1968 Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of the year |
History September 27, 1969 Thieu comments on Nixon's Vietnamization policy |
History September 27, 1972 In 1st game at Coliseum Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 - Exhibition |
History September 27, 1973 Soyuz 12 launched |
History September 27, 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor storms out of the courtroom |
History September 27, 1991 Reeves and Phoenix star in My Own Private Idaho |
History September 27, 1996 F. Scott Fitzgerald stamp is issued |
History September 27, 1999 Placido Domingo breaks Caruso's opening-night record at the Metropolitan Opera |