September 27 Historical Events
The following events took place on September 27. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 54 events. Showing 31 - 54.
- 1959Nearly 5,000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
- 1961Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
- 1962The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
- 1964The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
- 1968The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
- 1975The last use of capital punishment in Spain sees the executions of five members of militant organisations, sparking worldwide protests against the Spanish government and the withdrawal of numerous ambassadors.
- 1977A U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes into a residential neighborhood in Yokohama, Japan, killing two children on the ground and injuring seven other people.
- 1979The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
- 1983Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
- 1988National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
- 1993The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
- 1996In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
- 1996Tanker ship Julie N. spills thousands of gallons of oil after crashing into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine .
- 1997Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
- 1998The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
- 2000The first Olympic Gold Medal ever for taekwondo was won by Greek athlete Michail Mouroutsos in men’s -58 kg division in Sydney.
- 2001Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
- 2002Timor-Leste joins the United Nations.
- 2003SMART-1 satellite is launched.
- 2005After 162 episodes, Tom and Jerry airs its final episode, “The Karate Guard”.
- 2007NASA launches the Dawn probe.
- 2008CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
- 2012A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems, in Minneapolis, killing 6 people, including the gunman who committed suicide, and wounding 2 others.
- 2015A total lunar eclipse takes place during a supermoon visible across much of the world.
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