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.
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Iyasu V of Ethiopia -
Aung San Suu Kyi
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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. Looks like the 27th September 1937 is actually the last date that a Bali tiger was known to be alive,[1] but even then it needs some tidy up and extra cites on other bits of the article. |
| 1981 – Iran–Iraq War: Iran broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan by Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh. | dates in Siege and Operation articles are not in sync; cited reference gives a different date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 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 wrecked in a storm at Liverpool, England; the United States Congress subsequently awarded 27 gold Lifesaving Medals to the lifeboat 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, the emperor-designate of Ethiopia, was deposed in favor of his aunt, Zewditu.
- 1930 – With his victory in the United States Amateur Championship, Bobby Jones became the only person to complete a Grand Slam in golf.
- 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 powers.
- 1941 – SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,710 Liberty ships built during World War II by the United States, was launched.
- 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.
- 1964 – The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2, an advanced Cold War tactical strike and reconnaissance aircraft that was later cancelled, made its maiden flight.
- 1975 – Two members of ETA political-military and three of the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front became the last people to be executed in Spain, having been sentenced to death for murders of policemen and civil guards.
- 1983 – Software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like GNU operating system, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.
- 1988 – Led by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, 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.
- 2001 – The Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University, the only university in the world exclusively for the disabled, was founded in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- Born/died this day: Felice della Rovere (d. 1536) · Thomas Nast (b. 1840) · Ivan Goncharov (d. 1891) · Edgar Degas (d. 1917) · Gwyneth Paltrow (b. 1972) · Avril Lavigne (b. 1984)
Flag of China
- 1422 – The Treaty of Melno was signed, establishing the Prussian–Lithuanian border, which afterwards remained unchanged for about 500 years.
- 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.
- 1949 – Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference unanimously selected Zeng Liansong's design for the flag of China (pictured).
- 2014 – Mount Ontake in central Japan unexpectedly erupted, killing 63 people in the nation's deadliest eruption in more than 100 years.
Guillaume Rondelet (b. 1507) · Braxton Bragg (d. 1876) · Kenji Nagai (d. 2007)
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