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“You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.”
~ Boris Yeltsin
Wikiquote (Boris Yeltsin (Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Е́льцин; February 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007) a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.)
September 27th, 1066
Norman Conquest of England: William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River.
Wikipedia Image: Bayeux Tapestry embroidered cloth depicting the Battle of Hastings and the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England
September 27th, 1331
1331 - Battle of Płowce: Between Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order (An estimated over 4,000 men (combined) were said to have fallen on the field of the battle.)
1442 - After the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Wikipedia Image: Lithuania (Republic of Lithuania) is a country in Northern Europe, the largest of the three Baltic states. ● Trakai Island Castle Photo: ● Hill of Crosses (more than 50,000 crosses, not a cemetery) ● Vilnius ● Battle of Grunwald and Vytautas the Great in the centre.
September 27th, 1529
Siege of Vienna: Suleiman I attacks the city.
Wikipedia Image: Map of Vienna from 1530.
September 27th, 1540
Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
Wikipedia Painting: Portrait of Pope Paul III.
September 27th, 1605
Battle of Kircholm: The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Wikipedia Painting: After the battle of Kircholm by January Suchodolski
September 27th, 1821
Mexican War of Independence:
1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
Wikipedia Painting: Mexican War of Independence
September 27th, 1822
Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
Wikipedia Photo: The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum
September 27th, 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.
Wikipedia Picture: Albert Einstein Nobel Prize in Physics; Einstein at the age of three in 1882; The mathematician, physicist 1947; Einstein's theory of special relativity; Albert and Elsa Einstein in 1933; Conrad Habicht, Olympia Academy founders, Maurice Solovine and Einstein.
September 27th, 1908
The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
Wikipedia Photo: Ford Model T credit The Henry Ford.org
September 27th, 1928
Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
Wikipedia Photo: Taipei; Taiwan tectonic area between the Yangtze plate; Taiwan Taroko National park
September 27th, 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.
Wikipedia Painting: Bobby Jones; A portrait of golf legend Bobby Jones is being dedicated on Friday, April 2, at the Forest Hills Golf Club, the course where Jones began his 1930 campaign for a Grand Slam with a victory in the Southeastern Open. ● The painting, credit Louise Gillis Galleries.
September 27th, 1938
Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow, Scotland.
Wikipedia Photo: RMS Queen Elizabeth at Cherbourg, France (Queen Elizabeth, the largest passenger liner ever built at that time and for fifty-six years thereafter. She first entered service in February 1940 as a troopship in World War II)
September 27th, 1940
World War II: Tripartite Pact; is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
Wikipedia Photo: World War II; Tripartite Pact - Germany, Japan and Italy
September 27th, 1942
World War II:
1942 - Matanikau action; on Guadalcanal, U.S. Marines troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
1944 - Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) group on any mission in World War II.
Wikipedia Photo: Bombing of Dresden in World War II; August Schreitmüller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys Dresden after a firestorm started by Allied bombers in 1945.
USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and another airman on 11 May 1945. 389 personnel were killed or missing from a crew of 2,600; Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945; Kamikaze Missions - Lt Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS Essex. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank is trailing fuel vapor and/or smoke 25 November 1944.
German V1 flying-bomb and V2 Rockets - Preparations for a Salvo Launch of V-2 Rockets in the Heidelager near Blizna (Poland) (1944), credit German History in Documents and Images GHDI.
Eastern Front (World War II); Germans race towards Stalingrad. August 1942; Soviet children during a German air raid in the first days of the war, June 1941, by RIA Novosti archive; Soviet sniper Roza Shanina in 1944. About 400,000 Soviet women served in front-line duty units Caucasus Mountains, winter 1942/43; Finnish ski patrol: the invisible enemy of the Soviet Army with an unlimited supply of skis; Men of the German Engineers Corps cross a river which is swollen after the first autumn rains, to strengthen bridges linking the German positions on the central front in Russia. by Keystone / Getty Images. October 1942; Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images, 1943; German soldiers surrendering to the Russians in Stalingrad, the soldier holding the white flag of surrender is dressed in white so that there could be no doubt of his intentions, a Russian soldier is on the right of the photograph. by Keystone / Getty Images, January 1943.
September 27th, 1954
NBC: The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen.
Wikipedia Photo: Tonight! The Tonight Show hosted by Steve Allen 1954 to 1957. credit Hulton Archives / Getty Images
September 27th, 1956
United States Air Force 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.
Wikipedia Photo: Bell X-2 ● X-2, crew, and support equipment
September 27th, 1959
Typhoon:
1959 - Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
Wikipedia Photo: Typhoon Ketsana. NASA Earth Observatory.
September 27th, 1996
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
Wikipedia Image: Middle East Regional Map, credit eMapStore; An Afghan woman begs for alms, as a man rides past, with a backdrop of the Darul Aman's palace which was destroyed during the civil war of 1992 in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 23, 2008, credit AP / Rahmat Gul; Mazar-e Sharif's blue-tiled Hazrat Ali mosque draws Muslim faithful, tourists, and hungry pigeons, credit Robert Stahl / Getty Images; Afghanistan poppy fields (opium poppy cultivation); An Afghan boy works in an opium poppy field in Musa Qala in Helmand province (poppy production has skyrocketed since 2001), credit Omar Sobhani, Reuters; Eastern Afghanistan, Band-e Amir; Afghanistan Sunset.
September 27th, 1998
Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
Wikipedia Image: Google Images
September 27th, 2001
Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then kills himself.
Wikipedia Photo: The city of Zug, in canton Zug (Alessandro Della Bella, Keystone)
September 27th, 2007
NASA launches the Dawn probe.
Wikipedia Image: Deep Impact comet strike, artwork, credit Gil Babin / Eurelious / Science Photo Library; NASA's former Deep Impact comet-bomber space probe; A Delta II rocket launches from Cape Canaveral carrying the Dawn spacecraft.
September 27th, 2014
Modern conflicts in the Middle East, social unrest and terrorist attacks:
2014 - Minneapolis shooting; A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing six people, including the gunman who committed suicide, and wounding two others.
Wikipedia Photo: Middle East satellite image, NASA. ● Camels are seen early morning on a beach in the Marina area of Dubai October 16, 2008. (Steve Crisp, Reuters) ● A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad burns during clashes between rebels and Syrian troops in Selehattin, near Aleppo, on July 23, 2012. (Bulent Kilic, AFP / GettyImages) ● Egyptians gather in their thousands in Tahrir Square to mark the one year anniversary of the revolution on Jan. 25, 2012 in Cairo Egypt. Tens of thousands have gathered in the square on the first anniversary of the Arab uprising which toppled President Hosni Mubarak. (Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images) ● Black smoke rises above the Tehran skyline as supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi burn tires and other material in the streets as they fight running battles with police to protest the declared results of the Iranian presidential election in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 13, 2009. (Ben Curtis, AP) ● The Iron Dome defense system fires to interecpt incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (Tsafrir Abayov, AP)