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27 September, 2006
Platte Canyon High School shooting in Bailey, Colorado
27 September, 2003
Smart 1 satellite is launched.
27 September, 2002
Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
27 September, 1999
The last professional baseball game is played at historic Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan. Founding of Google. Google start searching.
27 September, 1997
Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
27 September, 1996
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
27 September, 1995
The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
27 September, 1993
The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
27 September, 1988
The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.
27 September, 1985
Hurricane Gloria hits Long Island, New York.
27 September, 1983
Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
27 September, 1980
Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxings world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
27 September, 1979
The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
27 September, 1977
The 300 metre tall CKVR-TV transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
27 September, 1968
The stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roofs collapsing in July 1973.
27 September, 1964
The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
27 September, 1959
Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshu as the result of a typhoon.
27 September, 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.
27 September, 1954
The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
27 September, 1953
TV Record, Brazilian TV Network, debuts.
27 September, 1949
The first Plenary Session of the National Peoples Congress approves the design of the Flag of the Peoples Republic of China.
27 September, 1942
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller enters the US Army. 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.
27 September, 1941
The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. Foundation of EAM (National Liberation Front) in Greece.
27 September, 1940
World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
27 September, 1938
Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
27 September, 1937
Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
27 September, 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, The British Open, and The Amateur Championships.
27 September, 1928
The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
27 September, 1922
King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
27 September, 1903
Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
27 September, 1886
Mormon prophet John Taylor receives a controversial revelation on plural marriage that now divides factions of Mormonism.
27 September, 1854
The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
27 September, 1825
The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the worlds first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
27 September, 1822
Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
27 September, 1821
Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
27 September, 1787
The United States Constitution is delivered to the states for ratification.
27 September, 1777
Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
27 September, 1605
The armies of Sweden are utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
27 September, 1590
Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
27 September, 1540
The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
27 September, 1331
the Battle of Plowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order took place.
27 September, 489
Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.

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