Historical Events on September 27.

1. 1672, 27th September: A new British company had been given a monopoly on the African slave trade.

2. 1777, 27th September: Lancaster became the capital of the United States for one day only.

3. 1821, 27th September: Mexico gained independence from Spain.

4. 1825, 27th September: The Stockton via Darlington Railway introduced the world’s first passenger train.

5. 1905, 27th September: Einstein first proposed the equation E = mc².

6. 1908, 27th September: Production of the Ford Model T began.

7. 1925, 27th September: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS founded by Dr. Keshav Hedgewar.

8. 1940, 27th September: A typhoon on the island of Honshu killed 5,000 people in Germany, Italy, and Japan.

9. 1958, 27th September: Mihir Sen became the first Asian swimmer to swim across the English Channel.

10. 1996, 27th September: Taliban conquered Kabul. President Burhanuddin Rabbani fled, while Najibullah was hanged in the street.

11. 1998, 27th September: The Google internet search engine retroactively claimed this date as its birthday.

12. 2003, 27th September: The SMART-1 satellite is launched. 

13. 2008, 27th September: CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.

14. 2019, 27th September: Over 2 million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide. 

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 27.

1. 1601: King Louis XIII of France.

2. 1722: Samuel Adams, American revolutionary.

3. 1792: George Cruikshank, British cartoonist who illustrated more than 850 books, such as Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.

4. 1862: Louis Botha, African Prime Minister, the first of the union of South Africa, who encouraged reconciliation between the British and the Boers.

5. 1907: Wamanrao Deshpande, Indian music critic.

6. 1933: Yash Chopra, Indian filmmaker, and director.

7. 1953: Mata Amritanandamayi, an Indian religious leader.

8. 1981: Brandon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 27.

1. 1833: Raja Rammohan Roy, Indian social reformer and father of the Brahmo community.

2. 1917: Edgar Degas, French painter.

3. 1921: Engelbert Humperdinck, German Composer.

4. 1972: S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician.

5. 1975: Tiruvenkat Rajendra Seshadri, Indian chemist.

6. 1979: Dame Gracie Fields, English actor, singer, and comedian.

7. 1992: Anutai Wagh, Padma Shri award-winning Indian social worker and educationist.

8. 1999: Dr. Mabel Arole, Ramon Magsaysay Award-winning multipurpose rural health project director from India.

9. 2004: Shobha Gurtu, India classical singer.

10. 2008: Mahendra Kapoor, Indian playback singer.

11. 2015: Syed Ahmed, Indian writer, and politician. 

12. 2015: Colin Pokkudan, Indian activist and writer.

13. 2017: Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founder of Playboy Enterprises.  

14. 2018: Kavita Mahajan, Indian author and translator. 

15. 2018: Manoharsinghji Pradyumansinghji, Indian nobleman and politician.