On This Day in History

September 27

Historical Events

William the Conqueror and his army land at Pevensey as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

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

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

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

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

1905 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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Famous Birthdays

Samuel Adams 1722 - 1803 Agustín de Iturbide 1783 - 1824

Hiram R. Revels 1827 - 1901 Avril Lavigne 40th Birthday

Also Meat Loaf and Gwyneth Paltrow (52).

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Famous Deaths

Clara Bow 1905 - 1965 Jimmy Doolittle 1896 - 1993

Also Edgar Degas and Hugh Hefner.

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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.

Locomotion No. 1’s Frightening Speed