About September 27
September 27, 2025 is the 270th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 95 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 143 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 27
- 1066 –William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
- 1540 –The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
- 1822 –Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
- 1825 –The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world’s first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
- 1854 –The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1908 –The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1916 –Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
- 1938 –Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
- 1954 –The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
- 1959 –Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
- 1961 –Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
- 1964 –The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
- 1968 –The 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.
- 1979 –The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
- 1996 –The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
- 1997 –Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
- 2001 –Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then kills himself.
- 2002 –Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
- 2003 –Smart 1 satellite is launched.
- 2008 –CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
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