Perhaps you know of one or two things that happened on September 27. Here are several historical events that took place. Take a look!
- 1779 – Former US President John Adams negotiated for Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain.
- 1825 – The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
- 1909 – President Taft of the United States set aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land for conservation purposes.
- 1928 – The United States announced that it would recognize the Nationalist Chinese Government.
- 1938 – British ocean liner “Queen Elizabeth” launched at Clydebank, Scotland.
- 1940 – Black leaders demonstrated against discrimination in the U.S. armed forces.
- 1941 – U.S. President Roosevelt launched the first Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry.
- 1961 – Sierra Leone became the 100th member of the United Nations.
- 1962 – Israel bought Hawk anti-aircraft missiles from the U.S.
- 1963 – America recorded a population of 190,000,000.
- 1968 – France barred the U.K.’s entry into the European Common Market.
- 1971 – The Soviet Union performed a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya.
- 1979 – Congress gave its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.
- 1982 – American rapper Lil Wayne was born.
- 1984 – Canadian singer/songwriter Avril Lavigne was born.
- 1989 – Sony purchased Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
- 1990 – The U.S. performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1991 – American President George H.W. Bush abolished all land-based tactical nuclear arms and got rid of all short-range nuclear arms.
- 2012 – The United Nations publicly released documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the Senkoku Islands.
- 2013 – 60 lives were lost after a building collapsed in Mumbai, India.