On This Day in History

September 27, 2023

Historical Events

1066  William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England

1290  Earthquake in the Gulf of Chihli (Bohai Sea) near China, reportedly kills 100,000 people

1779  John Adams appointed to negotiate Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain

1821  Mexican revolutionary forces led by Agustín de Iturbide occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw, bringing an end to the Mexican War of Independence

1822  French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone

1905  The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

1908  Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan

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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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Louis XIII

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Famous Deaths

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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September 27: Fear as First Passenger Train Reaches 15mph

The steam engine Locomotion No. 1 took passengers for a ride on this day – the first in the world to do so and, for at least one person, at frightening speed.

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