Today in History

September 26th


1580 Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth



1953 Sugar rationing in Britain came to an end.



1955 Frozen Birdseye fish fingers first went on sale in Britain.



1965 - Queen Elizabeth II bestowed honor upon The Beatles with the Order Of The British Empire.
 

On This Day In History, September 27th

1996 – Taliban take over Kabul
Following the takeover, the Islamic fundamentalist group established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

1962 – Establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic
Gamal Abdel Nasser declared the establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic after staging a coup that deposed King Muhammad Al-Badr

1940 – Tripartite Pact is signed
It established the Axis powers during World War II and was signed by representatives of Germany, Italy and Imperial Japan.

1937 – The Bali Tiger Goes Extinct
Native to the Indonesian island of Bali, the Bali Tiger became extinct due to human activities and hunting. On this day, the last known adult Balinese tiger was shot dead.

1922 – Constantine I of Greece abdicates
Constantine I of Greece abdicated in favour of his son, George II, after a military revolt.
 
Births on 27th September 🎂

1984 – Avril Lavigne
Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, fashion designer

1982 – Lil Wayne
American rapper, actor

1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow
American actress, singer

1947 – Meat Loaf
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

1722 – Samuel Adams
American politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts

Deaths on 27th September 🪦

1965 – Clara Bow
American actress

1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson
Canadian/American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

1917 – Edgar Degas
French painter

1876 – Braxton Bragg
American general

1833 – Ram Mohan Roy
Indian reformer
 
September 27th


1825 George Stephensons "Locomotion No. 1" becomes the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England



1938 The 83,000 ton liner 'Queen Elizabeth' was launched at John Brown's Yard on Clydebank in Scotland by the Queen Mother. With her sister ship Queen Mary, she provided luxury liner service between Southampton and New York via Cherbourg in France.


27 Sep 1967
Working on new songs the Beatles recorded various parts for the new John Lennon song ‘I Am The Walrus’ and the new Paul Macartney song ‘Fool On The Hill.’ Lennon received a letter from a pupil at Quarry Bank High School, that mentioned an English teacher was making his class analyse Beatles' lyrics. Lennon, amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding the Beatles' lyrics, decided to write in his next song the most confusing lyrics that he could.
 
SEPTEMBER 28, 1066
William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.


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SEPTEMBER 28, 1928
Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming (pictured) discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory.
 
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Furryanimal said:
SEPTEMBER 28, 1066
William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
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That's the sneaky Freench for you - while our boys were 'up North' in Yorkshire battling the twin armies of Orkney and Norweigan Vikings, the South West defences were unprotected. Makes one wonder if the Conquest and indeed history would be different had it been a straight Army v Army comflict.
 
On This Day In History, September 29th

1994 – Sinking of MS Estonia
MS Estonia, a passenger and car ferry, sank in the Baltic Sea killing more than 800 passengers. It is considered to be the worst maritime peacetime disaster of the 20th century.

1991 – Coup in Haiti
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed in a military coup. Aristide had been elected in a national election held 8 months before the coup.

1962 – First Canadian Satellite
Canada launched its first-ever satellite, Alouette 1, on this day from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. A joint venture between NASA and Defence Research and Development Canada, the satellite was sent to study the Earth's ionosphere.

1954 – CERN established
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, popularly known as CERN, was established by 12 European governments.

1941 – Babi Yar massacre
About 33,000 Soviet Jews were killed at the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev by the Nazis in a two-day massacre that started on this day.
 
Births on 29th September 🎂

1961 – Julia Gillard
Australian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia

1951 – Michelle Bachelet
Chilean politician, 34th President of Chile

1936 – Silvio Berlusconi
Italian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy

1901 – Enrico Fermi
Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1511 – Michael Servetus
Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer

Deaths on 29th September 🪦

2009 – Pavel Popovich
Soviet astronaut

1997 – Roy Lichtenstein
American painter, sculptor

1981 – Bill Shankly
Scottish footballer, manager

1973 – W. H. Auden
English/American poet

1902 – Émile Zola
French author, critic
 
Some entertainers who passed away on;
29th September
Tony Curtis, American actor with a career that spanned 6 decades died in 2010.
He was a heart throb of the 50s. He acted in over 100 films with some of the top rated being Winchester '73, 1950, The Defiant Ones, 1959, Sweet Smell of Success, 1959, Some Like it Hot, 1960.
Awarded a Life Time Achievement Award in 2005.

Helen Reddy, the Australian singer behind the feminist anthem "I Am Woman", died at the age of 78 in 2020
Helen had 15 Billboard Top 40 hits, she hosted a season of The Helen Reddy Show on NBC TV in 1973, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1974

Mac Davis passed away following heart surgery aged 78 in 2020
Along with his own hit records, which included the chart topping "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" in 1972, Mac also wrote "In the Ghetto" and "A Little Less Conversation" for Elvis Presley.
He hosted his own NBC variety series in 1974, the same year the Academy of Country Music named him entertainer of the year.
 
September 29th

1399 The first English monarch to abdicate, Richard II, was replaced by Bolingbroke, who ascended the throne as Henry IV.

1829 First units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital, the city's first modern police force


In 1963, "The Rolling Stones" began their first British tour as part of a package with "The Everly Brothers," Bo Diddley and Little Richard.
 

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