A bit of September 27th history…

1066 - William the Conqueror’s troops set sail for England

1779 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain 

1822 - French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone(pictured)

1825 - George Stephenson’s “Locomotion No 1″ becomes the 1st steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line - England

1905 -  E=mc² is introduced in Einstein’s published paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon its Energy Content”

1912 - W.C. Handy publishes “Memphis Blues”, considered the 1st blues song

1962 - “Silent Spring” is published about the impacts of pesticide use in the US on the environment

1964 - Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President Kennedy are released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

2015 - A “Supermoon” coincides with a lunar eclipse creating a “Blood Moon” over much of the earth (pictured below) 

Professional golf’s all-time leading tournament winner Kathy Whitworth was born on September 27, 1939, in Monahans, Texas. Continue reading.

On September 27, 1514, the Spanish crown granted the explorer Juan Ponce de León a contract to settle the islands of Bimini and Florida (de León thought the latter was an island). Continue reading.

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A bit of September 26th history…

1665 - Height of the Great Plague of London as 7165 people die throughout the previous week (pictured)

1789 - Thomas Jefferson appointed 1st US Secretary of State; John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice

1949 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; the old Hollywoodland is torn down

1964 - “Gilligan’s Island” debuts on CBS

1990 - Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating

2010 - TV drama “Downton Abbey” premiers in UK

2014 - WHO estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3091

2017 - Saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving - last country in the world to do so

2019 - US income inequality widest for over 50 years 

Jonathan Chapman, born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26, 1775, came to be known as "Johnny Appleseed." Continue reading.

On September 26, 1777, British troops marched into Philadelphia and occupied the city. Continue reading.

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A bit of September 25th history…

1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge: English army under King Harold II defeat invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold’s brother Tostig, who were both killed

1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Panama Isthmus becoming the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean

1639 - Suzuki Shosan, samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening

1789 - US Congress creates the Bill of Rights (pictured)

1906 - Leonardo Torres Queveda successfully demonstrates the Telekino at Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore; considered the birth of the remote control 

1926 - Henry Ford announces an 8 hour per day, 5 day work week

1932 - Poona Act signed in India, reserving legislative seats for depressed classes - the untouchables

1974 - Scientists 1st report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer

1981 - Sandra Day O’Connor sworn in as 1st female US Supreme Court Justice

2015 - Caitlyn Jenner officially changes her name from Bruce and her gender to a woman 

Novelist William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Continue reading.

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A bit of September 24th history…

1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies, the Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline

1529 - Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops arrive in Vienna, beginning of the siege

1952 - American fast food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken, opens its 1st franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah

1976 - “Oh! Calcutta!” revival opens at Edison Theater NYC fro 5,959 performances, Broadway’s longest running musical revue

1990 - Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait, Saddam Hussein states his willingness to strike 1st and his intention to damage oil fields in the region (pictured)

2017 - NFL players kneel, lock arms, or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protest against comments made by President Trump

2019 - UK Supreme Court rules suspension of UK parliament for 5 weeks as Boris Johnson’s Conservative government was unlawful

2019 - Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US President Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power fro his own political gain 

Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for his classic American novel The Great Gatsby, was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Continue reading.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born to free parents on September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland. Continue reading.

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A bit of September 23rd history…

1561 - King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida

1780 - British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold’s plot to betray West Point (pictured)  

1846 - Johann Galle and Heinrich d’Arrest find Neptune

1884 - American Herman Hollerith patents his Mechanical Tabulating Machine, the beginning of data processing

1932 - Abdulaziz Ibn Saud merges the kingdoms of Nejd and Hejaz into the kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1950 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ralph Bunche for mediation in Israel - 1st African-American winner

1962 - ABC’s 1st color TV series, The Jetsons, premiers

2018 - Japan’s space agency is 1st to place 2 robotic explorers on an asteroid - Ryugu - from it’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft

2018 - Mud volcano, the Otman-Bozdag, erupts 980 ft high in Azerbaijan

Mary Church Terrell—educator, political activist, and first president of the National Association of Colored Women—was born on September 23, 1863, in Memphis, Tennessee.  Continue reading.

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