September 27<\/p>\n
1066 \u2013 William, Duke of Normandy and his army set sail from the Somme river, headed towards England.<\/p>\n
1529 \u2013 The 1st Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.<\/p>\n
1669 \u2013 The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans,\u00a0 ending a 21 year long siege.<\/p>\n
1722 \u2013 Samuel Adams is born in Boston.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 After evacuating Philadelphia from the British occupation, the U.S. government selects Lancaster, Pennsylvania as the capital of the United States for one day<\/em> before continuing on to York, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n 1822 \u2013 Egyptologist Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Champollion officially informs the Acad\u00e9mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in France that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.<\/p>\n 1854 \u2013 The U.S. Collins Line steamship SS Arctic<\/em> collides with the French steamer Vesta<\/em> off the coast of Newfoundland and sinks, taking down with it 300 of the 400 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 The Southern Railway mail train number 97, officially known as the Fast Mail<\/em> , while en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, derails at the Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, killing 11 crew on board and injuring 7 others.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.<\/p>\n 1940 \u2013 The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy forming the Rome\u2013Berlin\u2013Tokyo Axis.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 The first Liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry<\/em> is launched at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 The last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal ends as U.S. Marines successfully retire from an attempted Japanese encirclement<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 Shortly after exceeding Mach 3 for the 1st time in a Bell X-2 aircraft, USAF Captain Milburn Apt is killed when the craft goes out of control and his escape module crashes due to a parachute failure.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 The Yemen Arab Republic is established.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Texas International Airlines Flight 655, a Convair 600, en route from Memphis to Dallas, crashes into the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness near Mena, Arkansas, killing all 11 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 The Battle of Kabul, the last battle of the 1992-1996 Afghan civil war, ends in a Taliban victory, establishing the 1st Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which will only last until 2001.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 The Google internet search engine claims this date as its origin.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 In the city of Zug, Switzerland’s parliament, a gunman who believed himself subject to unfair treatment by the government, shoots 18 politicians of the city government and some local journalists, killing 14 and then uses a bomb to commit suicide.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 In Minneapolis, an employee in the process of being fired from Accent Signage Systems, shoots 8 people there, killing 4 before committing suicide. 2 of the wounded later succumbing to their injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 27 1066 \u2013 William, Duke of Normandy and his army set sail from the Somme river, headed towards England. 1529 \u2013 The 1st Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city. 1669 \u2013 The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans,\u00a0 ending a 21 year long siege. 1722 \u2013 Samuel … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60041"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96310,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60041\/revisions\/96310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}