September 27
1540 - Pope Paul III approved the charter for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), founded by St. Ignatius Loyola.
1779 - John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.
1825 - The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
1854 - The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurred when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survived.
1928 - The United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.
1939 - Warsaw, Poland surrendered to the Nazis after weeks of resistance at the onset of World War II.
1959 - Typhoon Vera battered the Japanese island of Honshu, killing almost 5,000.
1964 - The Warren Commission reported concluded that there was no conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
1979 - Congress gave its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.
1991 - The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
2012 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.N. General Assembly that the world had only a matter of months to stop Iran before it could build a nuclear bomb.
2017 - President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans unveiled the first major revamp of the nation’s tax code in a generation, a plan that included deep tax cuts for corporations, simplified tax brackets and a near-doubling of the standard deduction.
2017 - Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine and media empire, died at age 91.
2018 - During a day-long hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford said she was "100 percent" certain that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, and Kavanaugh then told senators that he was "100 percent certain" he had done no such thing; Republicans quickly scheduled a recommendation vote for the following morning.
2021 - A Texas judge found Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones liable for damages in defamation lawsuits brought by the parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre over his claims that the shooting was a hoax; the cases would head to trial for juries to determine the amount of damages Jones and the other defendants would have to pay the families. (In August 2022, a jury ordered Jones to pay more than $49 million to the parents of one child who was killed.)
2021 - R&B superstar R. Kelly was convicted in a sex trafficking trial in New York, after decades of avoiding criminal responsibility for numerous allegations of misconduct with young women and children. (Kelly was sentenced in June 2022 to 30 years in prison.)
Birthdays
20 - Jenna Ortega (actress)
20 - Jillian Shea Spaeder (actress)
30 - Sam Lerner (actor)
31 - Sierra Hull (singer)
34 - Joie Chavis (model)
36 - Arielle Vandenberg (model)
38 - Avril Lavigne (singer)
40 - Lil' Wayne (rapper)
40 - Anna Camp (actress)
50 - Gwyneth Paltrow (actress)
51 - Amanda Detmer (actress)
52 - Mark Calderon (singer)
54 - Patrick Muldoon (actor)
59 - Marc Maron (comedian)
64 - Shaun Cassidy (singer)
73 - Mike Schmidt (baseball player)
75 - Liz Torres (actress)
79 - Randy Bachman (singer)
88 - Claude Jarman Jr. (actor)
89 - Kathleen Nolan (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 27
1902 - Nebraska defeats Doane 51-0.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Lincoln High 17-0 in an exhibition game.
1930 - Hack Wilson (Chicago) hit two home runs to give him 56 for the year.
1930 - At the annual NHL Governor's meeting a new rule was passed concerning offsides. The rule was that "the puck must be propelled into the attacking zone before any player of the attacking side can enter that zone."
1942 - The New York Giants defeat the Washington Redskins 14-7 despite not recording a single first down in the game.
1947 - Nebraska opens the season with a 17-0 loss to Indiana.
1952 - Nebraska defeats Oregon 28-13.
1953 - The St. Louis Browns played their final game before moving to Baltimore to become the Orioles.
1956 - Olympic track and field gold medalist and Hall of Fame golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias died in Galveston, Texas, at age 45.
1958 - Purdue defeats Nebraska 28-0.
1969 - Nebraska defeats Texas A&M 14-0.
1973 - Nolan Ryan (California Angels) struck out 16 batters for the Minnesota Twins. The feat established a modern day single season mark of 383 strikeouts in a season.
1975 - #4 Nebraska defeats TCU 56-14.
1980 - #3 Nebraska defeats #11 Penn State 21-7.
1983 - The America's Cup was lost by the United States for the first time in the yachting event's 132-year history.
1983 -Larry Bird signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth $15 million. The contract made him the highest paid Celtic in history.
1986 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oregon 48-14.
1988 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is disqualified from the Seoul Summer Olympic Games after failing a drug test; he is stripped of his 100 meter dash gold medal which is then awarded to American Carl Lewis, with Lewis' mark of 9.92 recognized as the new world record.
1996 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the second MLB player to record 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in the same year.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 69th and 70th home runs of the year on the last day of the regular season to establish a new single-season major league record; Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs ended the season with 66 home runs with both players surpassing the old single season record of 61 set by Roger Maris in 1961. McGwire and Sosa were joined by Ken Griffey Jr. and Greg Vaughn marking the first time in MLB history that four players each hit 50 or more home runs in the same season.
2000 - Donovan McNabb (Philadelphia Eagles) signed a 12-year contract that involved a $20.5 million signing bonus. The deal made McNabb the highest paid NFL player in history.
2005 - The Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th consecutive division title.
2008 - Greg Maddux wins the final start of his career, No. 355.
2008 - Virginia Tech defeats Nebraska 35-30.
2009 - The Detroit Lions defeated the Washington Redskins to end a 19-game losing streak that dated back to December of 2007.
2012 - NFL referees returned to the field after a tentative deal with the league ended a lockout; games had been marred by controversy, blown calls and confusion as substitute referees officiated during the first three weeks of the season.
2014 - #21 Nebraska defeats Illinois 45-14.
1540 - Pope Paul III approved the charter for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), founded by St. Ignatius Loyola.
1779 - John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.
1825 - The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
1854 - The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurred when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survived.
1928 - The United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.
1939 - Warsaw, Poland surrendered to the Nazis after weeks of resistance at the onset of World War II.
1959 - Typhoon Vera battered the Japanese island of Honshu, killing almost 5,000.
1964 - The Warren Commission reported concluded that there was no conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
1979 - Congress gave its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.
1991 - The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
2012 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.N. General Assembly that the world had only a matter of months to stop Iran before it could build a nuclear bomb.
2017 - President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans unveiled the first major revamp of the nation’s tax code in a generation, a plan that included deep tax cuts for corporations, simplified tax brackets and a near-doubling of the standard deduction.
2017 - Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine and media empire, died at age 91.
2018 - During a day-long hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford said she was "100 percent" certain that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, and Kavanaugh then told senators that he was "100 percent certain" he had done no such thing; Republicans quickly scheduled a recommendation vote for the following morning.
2021 - A Texas judge found Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones liable for damages in defamation lawsuits brought by the parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre over his claims that the shooting was a hoax; the cases would head to trial for juries to determine the amount of damages Jones and the other defendants would have to pay the families. (In August 2022, a jury ordered Jones to pay more than $49 million to the parents of one child who was killed.)
2021 - R&B superstar R. Kelly was convicted in a sex trafficking trial in New York, after decades of avoiding criminal responsibility for numerous allegations of misconduct with young women and children. (Kelly was sentenced in June 2022 to 30 years in prison.)
Birthdays
20 - Jenna Ortega (actress)
20 - Jillian Shea Spaeder (actress)
30 - Sam Lerner (actor)
31 - Sierra Hull (singer)
34 - Joie Chavis (model)
36 - Arielle Vandenberg (model)
38 - Avril Lavigne (singer)
40 - Lil' Wayne (rapper)
40 - Anna Camp (actress)
50 - Gwyneth Paltrow (actress)
51 - Amanda Detmer (actress)
52 - Mark Calderon (singer)
54 - Patrick Muldoon (actor)
59 - Marc Maron (comedian)
64 - Shaun Cassidy (singer)
73 - Mike Schmidt (baseball player)
75 - Liz Torres (actress)
79 - Randy Bachman (singer)
88 - Claude Jarman Jr. (actor)
89 - Kathleen Nolan (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 27
1902 - Nebraska defeats Doane 51-0.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Lincoln High 17-0 in an exhibition game.
1930 - Hack Wilson (Chicago) hit two home runs to give him 56 for the year.
1930 - At the annual NHL Governor's meeting a new rule was passed concerning offsides. The rule was that "the puck must be propelled into the attacking zone before any player of the attacking side can enter that zone."
1942 - The New York Giants defeat the Washington Redskins 14-7 despite not recording a single first down in the game.
1947 - Nebraska opens the season with a 17-0 loss to Indiana.
1952 - Nebraska defeats Oregon 28-13.
1953 - The St. Louis Browns played their final game before moving to Baltimore to become the Orioles.
1956 - Olympic track and field gold medalist and Hall of Fame golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias died in Galveston, Texas, at age 45.
1958 - Purdue defeats Nebraska 28-0.
1969 - Nebraska defeats Texas A&M 14-0.
1973 - Nolan Ryan (California Angels) struck out 16 batters for the Minnesota Twins. The feat established a modern day single season mark of 383 strikeouts in a season.
1975 - #4 Nebraska defeats TCU 56-14.
1980 - #3 Nebraska defeats #11 Penn State 21-7.
1983 - The America's Cup was lost by the United States for the first time in the yachting event's 132-year history.
1983 -Larry Bird signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth $15 million. The contract made him the highest paid Celtic in history.
1986 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oregon 48-14.
1988 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is disqualified from the Seoul Summer Olympic Games after failing a drug test; he is stripped of his 100 meter dash gold medal which is then awarded to American Carl Lewis, with Lewis' mark of 9.92 recognized as the new world record.
1996 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the second MLB player to record 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in the same year.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 69th and 70th home runs of the year on the last day of the regular season to establish a new single-season major league record; Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs ended the season with 66 home runs with both players surpassing the old single season record of 61 set by Roger Maris in 1961. McGwire and Sosa were joined by Ken Griffey Jr. and Greg Vaughn marking the first time in MLB history that four players each hit 50 or more home runs in the same season.
2000 - Donovan McNabb (Philadelphia Eagles) signed a 12-year contract that involved a $20.5 million signing bonus. The deal made McNabb the highest paid NFL player in history.
2005 - The Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th consecutive division title.
2008 - Greg Maddux wins the final start of his career, No. 355.
2008 - Virginia Tech defeats Nebraska 35-30.
2009 - The Detroit Lions defeated the Washington Redskins to end a 19-game losing streak that dated back to December of 2007.
2012 - NFL referees returned to the field after a tentative deal with the league ended a lockout; games had been marred by controversy, blown calls and confusion as substitute referees officiated during the first three weeks of the season.
2014 - #21 Nebraska defeats Illinois 45-14.
