SEPTEMBER 27
1954:Steve Allen hosts Tonight Starring Steve Allen during its national network debut on NBC. The interview and variety program that would become known as The Tonight Show is the first late-night talk show of its kind, and has run for nearly 60 years, with five main hosts and countless comedians and musical guests.
1825: Locomotion Number 1, built by engineer George Stephenson, is the first steam locomotive to power a passenger train, carrying wagons filled with coal, flour and people over 26 miles on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in northeastern England.
1968: Tim Curry is among the cast of the so-called American tribal love-rock musical Hair on its opening night at the Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End of London, only one day after a centuries-old theater censorship law is lifted. The hippie musical, which raises eyebrows with its nudity, drug use and strong anti-Vietnam War message, would run for 1,998 performances until the theater's roof collapses in July 1973.
1938:"Queen Elizabeth" ship launched in Glasgow
1905:The physics journal Annalen der Physik receives Albert Einstein's paper and the equation E=mc^2
1962:After dismantling of Ottoman Empire, Yemen Arab Republic established.
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