UN
Day
World
Tourism Day Events
of the day
1066 – William the Conqueror
and his army set sail from the mouth of the
Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest
of England.
1331 – The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom
of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
1422 – after the brief Gollub War the Teutonic
Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the
Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman
I attacks the city.
1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)
receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being
chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest
papacy in history.
1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by
the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the
Battle of Kircholm.
1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress
of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the
21-year long Siege of Candia.
1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital
of the United States, for one day.
1821 – Mexico gains its independence from
Spain.
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.
1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash
made famous by the song of the same name.
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik
received Albert Einstein's paper "Does
the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy
Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
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.
1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
his throne in favor of his eldest son, King
George II.
1928 – The Republic of China is recognised
by the United States.
1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship
to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old
structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open,
British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched
in Glasgow.
1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is
signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming
the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau
action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine
Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded
by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest
loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World
War II.
1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National
People's Congress approves the design of the
Flag of the People's Republic of China.
1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The
Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes
the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying
the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft
goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
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.
1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
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.
1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU
project to develop a free Unix-like operating
system.
1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in
Abkhazia.
1995 – The Government of the United States
unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes
with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait
of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture
the capital city Kabul after driving out President
Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader
Mohammad Najibullah.
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.
1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively
claims this as its birthday.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Days:
Adheritus
Vincent de Paul
September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
End of Independence War (Mexico)
French Community Holiday (French community
of Belgium)
Meskel (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church,
following Julian calendar)
World Tourism Day (International)
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