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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Richard M Stallman
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Bali Tiger
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Dawn mission patch -
Iyasu V of Ethiopia -
Aung San Suu Kyi
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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 |
| 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: unreferenced section |
| 1937 – The Bali tiger, a small subspecies of tiger found solely on the small Indonesian island of Bali, was officially declared extinct. | lots of {{cn}} tags |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – During the Shenzhou 7 mission, Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese citizen to carry out a spacewalk. | appears on September 25 |
Eligible
- 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.
- 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.
- 1825 – Locomotion No. 1 hauled the train on the opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public railway to use steam locomotives.
- 1854 – The paddle steamer SS Arctic sank after a collision with SS Vesta, a much smaller vessel, 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Newfoundland, killing approximately 320 people.
- 1916 – Lij Iyasu, the emperor-designate of Ethiopia, was deposed in favor of his aunt, Zewditu.
- 1941 – SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,751 Liberty ships built during World War II by the United States, was launched.
- 1964 – The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2, an advanced Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft that was later cancelled, made its first flight.
- 1988 – Led by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, the political party National League for Democracy was founded in Burma.
- 1993 – War in Abkhazia: After capturing the city of Sukhumi, Abkhaz separatists and their allies massacred large numbers of Georgian civilians.
- 1996 – The Taliban drove Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul 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.
- 2007 – NASA launched the Dawn probe, its first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Notes
- Mohammad Najibullah appears on September 28 so Taliban takeover (1996) should not be featured in the same year.
September 27: Banned Books Week begins (2015); World Tourism Day; Sukkot begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015); Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese calendar, 2015)
- 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 Paris Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Jean-François Champollion announced his initial successes in deciphering the Rosetta Stone.
- 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 of the Ford Model T (pictured) automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan, US.
- 1983 – Software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like GNU operating system, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.