September 27
1540 | The Society of Jesus, a religious order under Ignatius Loyola, is approved by the Pope. | |
1669 | The island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea falls to the Ottoman Turks after a 21-year siege. | |
1791 | Jews in France are granted French citizenship. | |
1864 | Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson and his henchmen, including a teenage Jesse James, massacre 20 unarmed Union soldiers at Centralia, Missouri. The event becomes known as the Centralia Massacre. | |
1869 | Wild Bill Hickok, sheriff of Hays City, Kan., shoots down Samuel Strawhim, a drunken teamster causing trouble. | |
1916 | Constance of Greece declares war on Bulgaria. | |
1918 | President Woodrow Wilson opens his fourth Liberty Loan campaign to support men and machines for World War I. | |
1920 | Eight Chicago White Sox players are charged with fixing the 1919 World Series. | |
1939 | Germany occupies Warsaw as Poland falls to Germany and the Soviet Union. | |
1942 | Australian forces defeat the Japanese on New Guinea in the South Pacific. | |
1944 | Thousands of British troops are killed as German forces rebuff their massive effort to capture the Arnhem Bridge across the Rhine River in Holland. | |
1950 | U.S. Army and Marine troops liberate Seoul, South Korea. | |
1956 | The U.S. Air Force Bell X-2, the world's fastest and highest-flying plane, crashes, killing the test pilot. | |
1964 | The Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, issues its report, stating its conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman. | |
1979 | US Congress approves Department of Education as the 13th agency in the US Cabinet. | |
1983 | Sukhumi massacre: Abkhaz separatist forces and their allies commit widespread atrocities against the civilian population in the USSR state of Georgia. | |
1996 | The Taliban capture Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul. | |
2003 | European Space Agency launches SMART-1 satellite to orbit the moon. | |
2007 | NASA launches Dawn probe to explore and study the two larges objects of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. | |
2008 | Shai Shigang becomes the first Chinese to walk in space; he was part of the Shenzhou 7crew. |
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