September 27

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining. \n

Events

\n*489 - Odoacer attacks Theoderic at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.\n*1540 - Jesuit Order receives its charter from Pope Paul III\n*1787 - United States Constitution delivered to the states for ratification\n*1821 - The Mexican Army finally enters Mexico City after 11 years of Independence War.\n*1825 - The Stockton and Darlington Railway was opened. First locomotive pulling a passenger train operated on the line by George Stephenson \n*1854 - The steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.\n*1928 - The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.\n*1938 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow\n*1939 - Poland surrenders to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.\n*1940 - The Tripartite Pact signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.\n*1942 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform at the in Passaic County, New Jersey for the last time before Miller enters the US Army.\n*1949 - First Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves design for the Flag of the People's Republic of China\n*1954 - Debut of "Tonight!" hosted by Steve Allen on NBC. \n*1959 - Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshu as the result of a typhoon.\n*1964 - Warren Commission report issued, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy\n*1979 - United States Department of Education receives final approval from the US Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.\n*1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter by a knockout in three rounds to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. Then, Hagler, Minter and Vito Antuofermo, who had also boxed that day, have to be taken out of the ring by Scotland Yard after a riot forms.\n*1983 - Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.\n*1986 - Cliff Burton, bassist for Metallica, dies after being crushed by the band's tour bus during their European tour.\n*1995 - The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bills with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.\n*1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.\n*2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.\n*2003 - Smart 1 is launched.

Births

\n*1275 - John II of Brabant (d. 1312)\n*1389 - Cosimo de Medici, Florentine ruler (d. 1464)\n*1601 - Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)\n*1722 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)\n*1818 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)\n*1840 - Thomas Nast, political cartoonist (d. 1902)\n*1871 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (d. 1926)\n*1885 - Harry Blackstone, magician (d. 1965)\n*1895 - George Raft, actor (d. 1980)\n*1896 - Sam Ervin, Senator from North Carolina, Watergate scandal figure (d. 1985)\n*1913 - Albert Ellis, psychologist\n*1919 - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (d. 1986)\n*1920 - William Conrad, actor (d. 1994)\n* 1920 - Jayne Meadows, actress\n*1922 - Carl Ballantine, actor\n* 1922 - Arthur Penn, director\n*1927 - Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist\n*1928 - Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and Prime Minister\n*1929 - Sada Thompson, actress\n*1932 - Oliver E. Williamson, American economist \n*1933 - Greg Morris, actor\n*1934 - Wilford Brimley, actor\n* 1934 - Claude Jarman Jr, actor\n* 1934 - Dick Schapp, sports reporter (d. 2001)\n*1936 - Don Cornelius, television host\n*1947 - Randy Bachman, Canadian musician\n* 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, fashion model\n*1948 - A Martinez, actor\n*1949 - Mike Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Famer\n* 1949 - Robb Weller, reporter\n*1950 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor\n*1951 - Meat Loaf, American singer and actor\n*1953 - Diane Julie Abbott, British politician\n*1958 - Shaun Cassidy, singer, actor\n*1984 - Avril Lavigne, singer, songwriter

Deaths

\n*1590 - Pope Urban VII\n*1700 - Pope Innocent XII\n*1722 - Grace; killed by a Dobhar-chu \n*1917 - Edgar Degas, painter\n*1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, composer\n*1933 - Ring Lardner, writer\n*1956 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer\n*1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, social activist\n*1967 - Prince Felix Yussupov, assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)\n*1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician\n*1986 - Cliff Burton, musician\n*1993 - James Doolittle, United States General, World War II hero\n*1998 - Doak Walker, football player\n*2003 - Donald O'Connor, actor, dancer and singer

Holidays

\n*Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mashíyyat (Will) - First day of the eleventh month of the Bahá'í Calendar

Recorded this date

• 1891 "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep"(w. Mrs Emma Hart Willard m. Joseph Phillip Knight)
  - Manhansett Quartette
  \n*1891 "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie"(w.m. C. A. White)
  - Manhansett Quartette
  \n*1891 "Emmet's Lullaby"(w.m. J. K. Emmet)
  - Manhansett Quartette
  \n*1891 "The Picture That's Turned To The Wall"(w.m. Charles Graham)
  - Manhansett Quartette
  \n*1891 "Comrades"(Felix McGlennon & Costello)
  - Manhansett Quartette
  \n*1891 "Sally In Our Alley"(w. Henry Carey m. trad)
  - Manhansett Quartette
  \n*1911 "Alexander's Ragtime Band"(w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Victor Military Band
  \n*1912 "Come Back To Me, My Melody"(Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder)
  - Walter Van Brunt
  \n*1924 "Doodle Doo Doo"(w.m. Art Kassel & Mel Stitzel)
  - Ray Miller & his Orchestra
  \n*1927 "Black Eyes"( alternate title "Dark Eyes")
  - Feodor Chaliapin & choir with Aristov Balalaika Orchestra cond. A. A. Scriabin
  \n*1928 "Dusky Stevedore"(w. Andy Razaf m. J.C. Johnson)
  - Joe Davis with Thelma Terry & her Playboys
  \n*1929 "Sensation"(Eddie Edwards)
  - Rube Bloom with Joe Venuti's Blue Four
  \n*1929 "Gay Love"(w. Sidney Clare m. Oscar Levant)
  - Bing Crosby with small group from Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
  \n*1929 "Can't We Be Friends?"(w. Paul James m. Kay Swift)
  - Bing Crosby with small group from Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
  \n*1929 "He's A Good Man To Have Around"(w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager)
  - Billy Murray with Dick Cherwin's Orchestra
  \n*1930 "Siboney"(w. Dolly Morse m. Ernesto Lecuona)
  - Nick Lucas with Anglo-Persians
  \n*1932 "I'll Never Have To Dream Again"(w. Charles Newman m. Isham Jones)
  - Connie Boswell with O/Dorsey Brothers
  \n*1932 "Me Minus You"(w. Paul Francis Webster m. Abel Baer)
  - Connie Boswell with O/Dorsey Brothers
  \n*1932 "Nothing But A Lie"( Sievier, Rotter, Fred Markush)
  - Gertrude Lawrence with p. Claude Ivy
  \n*1932 "Why Waste Your Tears?"( Val Holstius)
  - Gertrude Lawrence with p. Claude Ivy
  \n*1933 "Beautiful Girl"(w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown)
  - Bing Crosby with O/Lenny Hayton
  \n*1933 "After Sundown"(w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown)
  - Bing Crosby with O/Lennie Hayton
  \n*1933 "Home On The Range"(w. poss. Brewster Higley m. poss Dan E. Kelly)
  - Bing Crosby with O/Lennie Hayton
  \n*1933 "The Last Round-Up"(w.m. Billy Hill)
  - Bing Crosby with O/Lennie Hayton
  \n*1933 "Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More"(w. Joe Young & Johnny Burke m. Harold Spina)
  - Carmen Lombardo with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
  \n*1933 "Night And Day"(w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  \n*1933 "Tick-Tock"(w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  \n*1933 "In The Valley Of The Moon"(w.m. Joe Burke & Charles Tobias)
  - Gladys Moncrieff with String octet cond. Gil Dech
  \n*1933 "I Wake Up Smiling"(w. Edgar Leslie m. Fred E. Ahlert)
  - Gladys Moncrieff with String octet cond. Gil Dech
  \n*1933 "By A Waterfall"(w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain)
  - Dick Powell
  \n*1935 "Madhouse"(Earl Hines, Jimmy Mundy)
  - Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  \n*1935 "Santa Claus Came In The Spring"(w.m. Johnny Mercer)
  - Joe Harris with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  \n*1935 "Goodbye"(w.m. Gordon Jenkins)
  - Benny Goodman
  \n*1936 "Rainbow On The River"(w. Paul Francis Webster m. Louis Alter)
  - Perry Como with Ted Weems
  \n*1936 "Picture Me Without You"(w. Ted Koehler m. Jimmy McHugh)
  - Perry Como with Ted Weems
  \n*1936 "Trouble Ends Out Where The Blue Begins"(w.m. Cliff Friend)
  - Ted Weems & his Orchestra
  \n*1938 "Now It Can Be Told"(w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Al Bowlly with Lew Stone & his Band
  \n*1938 "On The Sentimental Side"(w. Johnny Burke m. James V. Monaco)
  - Al Bowlly with Lew Stone & his Band
  \n*1938 "The Holy City"(w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams)
  - Peter Dawson
  \n*1938 "Bless This House"(w. Helen Taylor m. May Brahe)
  - Peter Dawson
  \n*1938 "The Lost Chord"(w. Adelaide A. Proctor m. Sir Arthur Sullivan)
  - Peter Dawson
  \n*1938 "The Lord Is King"(Dawson)
  - Peter Dawson with organ Herbert Dawson
  \n*1938 "Poor Man's Garden"( Barrie & Russell)
  - Peter Dawson
  \n*1938 "There Is No Death"(Geoffrey O'Hara)
  - Peter Dawson
  \n*1938 "Down South"(Myddleton)
  - Sam Browne with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  \n*1938 "Colonel Bogey - March"( m. Kenneth J. Alford)
  - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  \n*1938 "The Whistler And His Dog"( m. Arthur Pryor)
  - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  \n*1938 "King Porter Stomp"(m. Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton)
  - Glenn Miller's Orchestra
  \n*1938 "Nightmare"(m. Artie Shaw)
  - Artie Shaw
  \n*1938 "Yesterdays"(w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern)
  - Artie Shaw
  \n*1938 "I Have Eyes"(w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger)
  - Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw & his Orchestra
  \n*1938 "You're A Sweet Little Headache"(w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger)
  - Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw & his Orchestra
  \n*1939 "So Many Times"(w. Don DeVito m. Jimmy Dorsey)
  - Jack Leonard with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra
  \n*1939 "Indian Summer"(w. Al Dubin m. Victor Herbert)
  - Jack Leonard with Tommy Dorsey
  \n*1939 "Baby, What Else Can I Do?"(w. Walter Hirsch m. Gerald Marks)
  - Anita Boyer with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra
  \n*1939 "A Lover Is Blue"(w.m. Charles Carpenter, James R. Mundy & Trummy Young)
  - Jack Leonard with Tommy Dorsey
  \n*1939 "Adolf"(Mills)
  - Arthur Askey with O/Ronnie Munro
  \n*1939 "The Washing On The Siegfried Line"(w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr)
  - Arthur Askey with O/Ronnie Munro
  - Flanagan & Allen
  \n*1939 "Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant-Major"(Noel, Pelosi)
  - Arthur Askey with O/Ronnie Munro
  \n*1939 "Run, Rabbit, Run"(w. Noel Gay & Ralph T. Butler m. Noel Gay)
  - Flanagan & Allen
  \n*1940 "All The Things You Are"(w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern)
  - Leslie A. Hutchinson
  \n*1941 "No Lika Da War"(Nesham, Stanley Holloway)
  - Stanley Holloway
  \n*1943 "Vict'ry Polka"(w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne)
  - Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters with O/Vic Schoen
  \n*1943 "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"(w.m. Haven Gillespie & J. Fred Coots)
  - Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen
  \n*1943 "Jingle Bells"(w.m. James S. Pierpont)
  - Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters with O/Vic Schoen
  \n*1943 "Pistol Packin' Mama"(w.m. Al Dexter)
  - Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen
  \n*1946 "A Gal In Calico"(w. Leo Robin m. Arthur Schwartz)
  - Johnny Mercer & Pied Pipers with O/Paul Weston
  \n*1947 "Bread And Butter Woman"(w.m. Lester Lee & Allan Roberts)
  - Danny Kaye & Andrews Sisters with O/Vic Schoen
  \n*1947 "Civilization"(w.m. Bob Hilliard & Carl Sigman)
  - Danny Kaye & Andrews Sisters with O/Vic Schoen
  \n*1950 "Time Out For Tears"(w.m. Abe Schiff & Irving Berman)
  - Ink Spots
  \n*1954 "Make Yourself Comfortable"(w.m. Bob Merrill)
  - Peggy King with O/Percy Faith
  \n*1955 "All At Once You Love Her"(w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers)
  - Perry Como with O/Mitchell Ayres
  \n*1955 "The Rose Tattoo"(w.m. Jack Brooks and Harry Warren)
  - Perry Como and The Ray Charles Singers with Mitchell Ayres & his Orchestra
  \n*1955 "Pepper-Hot Baby"(w.m. Alicia Evelyn)
  - Jaye P. Morgan with O/Joe Thomas
  \n*1955 "Bonnie Blue Gal"(w. William Engvick m. adapt. Jessie Cavanaugh)
  - Lawrence Welk & his Orchestra
  \n*1963 "Angry At The Big Oak Tree"(Hampton)
  - Frank Ifield with O/Norrie Paramor
  \n*1976 "Dry Your Eyes"(Neil Diamond, Robbie Robertson)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Bill Miller
  \n*1976 "Like A Sad Song"(w.m. John Denver)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Bill Miller
  

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