Google Inc. was officially incorporated in a garage in Menlo Park, California
MajorLarry Page and Sergey Brin formalized their search engine company in Susan Wojcicki's garage with an initial investment from Andy Bechtolsheim. The co...
September 27 in History
Significant events that happened on this day.
Historical Events
1998
1996
The Taliban captured Kabul and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
MajorThe militant group seized control of the Afghan capital and immediately imposed strict Islamic law. Former president Mohammad Najibullah was publicly...
1964
The Warren Commission released its report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy
MajorThe 888-page report was the result of a 10-month investigation into JFK's death. Despite the commission's findings, polls have consistently shown that...
1956
The Muppets made their first television appearance on a local Washington D.C. show
Jim Henson's creations debuted on 'Sam and Friends,' a five-minute late-night show on WRC-TV. The early Muppets were quite different from their later...
1942
The luxury ocean liner SS Normandie capsized in New York Harbor while being converted into a troopship
Welders accidentally started a fire while working on the French ship being converted for military use during WWII. In a bizarre twist of irony, the fi...
1938
The Queen Mary ocean liner arrived in New York after setting a new transatlantic speed record
The British luxury liner crossed the Atlantic in just 3 days, 21 hours, and 48 minutes at an average speed of 30.99 knots. This achievement captured t...
1921
A traffic light in Texas malfunctioned and stayed green in all directions, causing absolute chaos at the intersection
In Houston, a newly installed traffic signal went haywire and displayed green lights for all directions simultaneously. Cars, horse-drawn carriages, a...
1916
Rin Tin Tin was born in a WWI battlefield in France and would later become Hollywood's biggest canine star
The German Shepherd puppy was rescued from a bombed kennel by American soldier Lee Duncan. Duncan brought the dog to California where Rin Tin Tin star...
1905
Albert Einstein's paper on special relativity was published in the journal Annalen der Physik
The paper 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' revolutionized physics by introducing concepts like time dilation and mass-energy equivalence (E=m...
1825
The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened as the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives
MajorGeorge Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1 hauled the first train of coal wagons and passenger cars in northeast England. This marked the beginning of the r...
1822
Jean-François Champollion announced he had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone
The French scholar's breakthrough came after years of studying the trilingual stone discovered in 1799. His announcement to the French Academy unlocke...
1779
John Adams was appointed to negotiate peace terms with Britain, even though the Revolutionary War was still raging
The Continental Congress chose Adams for this diplomatic mission when American independence was far from certain. Adams had to wait in Europe for over...
1540
Pope Paul III officially approved the Society of Jesus, founding the Jesuit order
MajorThe Pope's papal bull 'Regimini militantis Ecclesiae' established the Jesuits as an official Catholic religious order. Founded by Ignatius of Loyola,...
Fun Facts from September 27
1986History
In 1986, Cleveland released 1.5 million balloons to set a world record. A storm pushed them back down. They clogged Lake Erie, shut down a Coast Guard search for two missing boaters who drowned, caused a horse stampede, and triggered so many 911 calls about UFOs that the system crashed. The city was sued for years. The record was never officially recognised.