What Happened on September 27th in History
30 historical events on this date
Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport; he was also a lawyer by profession. Jones founded and helped design...
The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
RMS Queen Elizabeth was a British ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. Along with her sister Queen Mary, she provided a weekly transatlantic service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and...
World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
World WarĀ II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major...
World War II: The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.
Georgios Siantos was a Greek politician and prominent figure of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) who served as acting general secretary of the party, and as a leader of the National Liberation...
The SSĀ Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
SS Patrick Henry was the first Liberty ship launched. It was built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at their Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland. She was named after Patrick...
World War II: Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.
The Actions along the Matanikauāsometimes referred to as the Second and Third Battles of the Matanikauāwere two separate but related engagements between the United States and Imperial Japanese naval...
World War II: The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission during the war.
The Kassel Mission on 27 September 1944 was also known as the air battle over the Seulingswald. The mission aimed to destroy the factories in Kassel of the engineering works of Henschel & Sohn which...
Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
Zeng Liansong was a Chinese supply chain manager and secret agent of the Chinese Communist Party best known for designing the flag of the People's Republic of China. He also served as the deputy...
USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
Milburn Grant "Mel" Apt was a U.S. Air Force test pilot, and the first man to attain speeds faster than Mach 3. He was killed after separating from the Bell X-2 in his escape capsule during the...
Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
Typhoon Vera, also known as the Isewan Typhoon , was an exceptionally intense tropical cyclone that struck Japan in SeptemberĀ 1959, becoming the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make...
The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
The Yemen Arab Republic, also known as Yemen (SanaŹ½a) and commonly referred to as North Yemen, was a country that existed from 1962 until its unification with the People's Democratic Republic of...
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Published on September 27, 1962, the book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT, a pesticide used...
The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight.
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 was a cancelled supersonic strike and reconnaissance aircraft designed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). It was under development throughout the late...
Texas International Airlines Flight 655 crashes into the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness near Mena, Arkansas, killing all 11 people on board.
Texas International Airlines Flight 655 was a scheduled domestic flight within the United States of America. On September 27, 1973, the Convair 600 turboprop aircraft en route from El Dorado to...
The last use of capital punishment in Spain sparks worldwide protests.
The last use of capital punishment in Spain took place on 27 September 1975 when two members of the armed left-wing Basque nationalist and separatist group ETA political-military and three members...
Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.
Japan Air Lines Flight 715 was a regular scheduled flight that crashed on approach to Subang Airport in Malaysia on 27 September 1977. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, registration JA8051,...
The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
The National League for Democracy is a deregistered liberal democratic political party in Myanmar. It became the country's ruling party after a landslide victory in the 2015 general election but was...
Palestinian prisoners went on a 15-day hunger strike.
The future of Palestinians detained by Israel in the context of the IsraeliāPalestinian conflict is considered central to progress in the IsraeliāPalestinian peace process. Cases of prison sentences...
The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
The Sukhumi massacre took place on 27 September 1993, during and after the fall of Sukhumi into separatist hands in the course of the War in Abkhazia. It was perpetrated against Georgian civilians...
The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory; an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is established.
The Battle of Kabul was a series of intermittent battles and sieges over the city of Kabul during the period of 1992ā1996.
Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N oil spill in Portland, Maine.
The Julie N oil spill occurred on September 27, 1996, when the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Julie N struck the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine while carrying over 200,000 barrels (32,000Ā m3)...
The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum computing,...
In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
The Zug massacre was a mass shooting that took place on 27 September 2001 in the parliament of the Canton of Zug, Switzerland. 57-year-old Friedrich Leibacher shot and killed 14 people in the...
The SMART-1 satellite is launched.
SMART-1 was a European Space Agency satellite that orbited the Moon. It was launched on 27 September 2003 at 23:14 UTC from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. "SMART-1" stands for...
NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
Dawn is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. In the fulfillment...
CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
Zhai Zhigang is a Chinese major general of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) in active service as a People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut. During the...
In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots eight people, killing six and injuring 2 and then kills himself.
A mass shooting occurred at a firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, on the afternoon of September 27, 2012. The attack took place inside Accent Signage Systems, where a former employee...
63 people are killed in an eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan.
A volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake took place on September 27, 2014, killing 63 people. Mount Ontake is a volcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu around 100 kilometres (62Ā mi) northeast...
Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.
The September 2019 climate strikes, also known as the Global Week for Future, were a series of international strikes and protests to demand action be taken to address climate change, which took...
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan launches an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding occupied territories. It was a major escalation of an...