Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 27

This is a list of selected September 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Regimini militantis Ecclesiae
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  Albert Einstein
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  GNU logo
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  Bali Tiger
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  Dawn mission patch
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  Ford Model T
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  Flag of China
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  Aung San Suu Kyi
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  Locomotion No. 1 at the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum
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  Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
World Tourism Day	no footnotes
1540 – Pope Paul III issued the papal bull Regimini militantis, approving the formation of the Society of Jesus, a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, by St. Ignatius of Loyola.	already featured on August 15
1605 – Polish–Swedish War: The Battle of Kircholm ended in the decisive victory of Polish–Lithuanian forces, and is remembered as one of the greatest triumphs of Commonwealth cavalry.	unreferenced section
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became the capital of the United States for one day as members of the Continental Congress fled Philadelphia, which had been captured by the British.	refimprove section
1903 – The Old 97, a Southern Railway train, derailed near Danville, Virginia, inspiring a famous railroad ballad.	Needs more footnotes
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's fourth Annus Mirabilis paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", which introduced the equation E = mc2.	Annus Mirabilis: refimprove section; Mass-energy: refimprove sections
1937 – The Bali tiger, a small subspecies of tiger found solely on the small Indonesian island of Bali, was officially declared extinct.	Date not mentioned in article, and conflicting dates given.
1930 – With his victory in the U.S. Amateur Championship, Bobby Jones (pictured) became the only person ever to complete a Grand Slam in golf.	Lots of citations needed, and date ref is a deadlink
1962 – Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was first published, and went on to inspire an environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.	section needs rewrite
1993 – War in Abkhazia: After capturing the city of Sukhumi, Abkhaz separatists and their allies massacred large numbers of Georgian civilians.	lots of {{cn}} tags (8)
2007 – NASA launched the Dawn probe, its first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion, from Cape Canaveral.	too many images
2008 – During the Shenzhou 7 mission, Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese citizen to carry out a spacewalk.	appears on September 25
2001 – The Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University, the only university in the world exclusively for disabled people, was founded in Chitrakoot, India.	unreliable sources
Avril Lavigne |b|1984	outdated, unreferenced section

Eligible

• 1422 – The Treaty of Melno was signed, establishing the Prussian–Lithuanian border, which afterwards remained unchanged for about 500 years.
• 1825 – Locomotion No. 1 hauled the train on the opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public railway in the world to use steam locomotives.
• 1854 – The paddle steamer SS Arctic sank after a collision with SS Vesta 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Newfoundland, killing approximately 320 people.
• 1875 – The Ellen Southard was wrecked in a storm at Liverpool, England; the U.S. Congress subsequently awarded 27 Gold Lifesaving Medals to the men who rescued her crew.
• 1908 – The first production Ford Model T, the car credited with initiating the mass use of automobiles in the United States, was completed at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1916 – Lij Iyasu (pictured), the emperor-designate of Ethiopia, was deposed in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
• 1940 – World War II: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan signed the Tripartite Pact in Berlin, officially forming a military alliance known as the Axis.
• 1941 – SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,710 Liberty ships built during World War II by the United States, was launched.
• 1949 – Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference unanimously selected Zeng Liansong's design for the flag of China.
• 1964 – The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2, an advanced Cold War tactical strike and reconnaissance aircraft that was later cancelled, made its maiden flight.
• 1981 – Iran–Iraq War: Iran broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan by Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh
• 1988 – Led by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi (pictured), the political party National League for Democracy was founded in Burma.
• 1996 – The Taliban drove Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, tortured and murdered former president Mohammad Najibullah, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
• 2014 – Mount Ontake in central Japan unexpectedly erupted, killing 63 people in the nation's deadliest eruption in more than 100 years.
• Born/died this day: | Guillaume Rondelet |b|1507| Flaminio Scala |b|1552| Alphonsus Liguori |b|1696| William Rulofson |b|1826| Bernard Courtois |d|1837| Braxton Bragg |d|1876| Ivan Goncharov |d|1891| Edgar Degas |d|1917| Sylvia Pankhurst |d|1960|Gwyneth Paltrow |b|1972| Asashōryū Akinori |b|1980| Kenji Nagai |d|2007 |Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez |d|2013

September 27

Rosetta Stone

• 1822 – In a letter to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris, Jean-François Champollion announced his initial successes in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone (pictured).
• 1851 – The British East India Company inaugurated the Horsburgh Lighthouse on the rocky outcrop of Pedra Branca, Singapore, which later became the subject of a territorial dispute.
• 1917 – The Broadhurst Theatre opened in New York City with a performance of Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw.
• 1975 – Two members of ETA political-military and three members of the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front, sentenced to death for murder, became the last people to be executed in Spain.
• 1983 – American software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like operating system GNU, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.

• Felice della Rovere (d. 1536)
• Michael Huber (b. 1727)
• Alma Vessells John (b. 1906)
• Bud Powell (b. 1924)

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