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Regimini militantis Ecclesiae
Albert Einstein- Richard M Stallman
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Bali Tiger
Dawn mission patch
Ford Model T
Aung San Suu Kyi
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1540 – Pope Paul III issued the papal bull Regimini militantis, approving the formation of the Society of Jesus, a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, by St. Ignatius of Loyola. | already featured on August 15 |
| 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became the capital of the United States for one day as members of the Continental Congress fled Philadelphia, which had been captured by the British. | refimprove, undue weight |
| 1903 – The Old 97, a Southern Railway train, derailed near Danville, Virginia, inspiring a famous railroad ballad. | Needs more footnotes |
| 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's fourth Annus Mirabilis paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", which introduced the equation E = mc2. | Annus Mirabilis: refimprove section; Mass-energy: unreferenced section |
| 1937 – The Bali tiger, a small subspecies of tiger found solely on the small Indonesian island of Bali, was officially declared extinct. | lots of {{cn}} tags |
| 1940 – World War II: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan signed the Tripartite Pact in Berlin, officially forming a military alliance known as the Axis powers. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – During the Shenzhou 7 mission, Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese citizen to carry out a spacewalk. | appears on September 25 |
Eligible
- 1422 – The Treaty of Melno was signed, establishing the Prussian–Lithuanian border, which afterwards remained unchanged for about 500 years.
- 1605 – Polish–Swedish War: The Battle of Kircholm ended in the decisive victory of Polish–Lithuanian forces, and is remembered as one of the greatest triumphs of Commonwealth cavalry.
- 1822 – In a letter to the Paris Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Jean-François Champollion announced his initial successes in deciphering the Rosetta Stone.
- 1875 – The Ellen Southard wrecked in a storm at Liverpool, England; the United States Congress subsequently awarded 27 gold Lifesaving Medals to the lifeboat men who rescued her crew.
- 1908 – The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan became the first factory to produce Ford Model T automobiles, which would later be built at many other factories in the US and around the world.
- 1964 – The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2, an advanced Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft that was later cancelled, made its first flight.
- 1975 – Two members of ETA political-military and three of the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front became the last people to be executed in Spain, having been sentenced to death for murders of policemen and civil guards.
- 1983 – Software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like GNU operating system, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.
- 1988 – Led by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, the political party National League for Democracy was founded in Burma.
- 1993 – War in Abkhazia: After capturing the city of Sukhumi, Abkhaz separatists and their allies massacred large numbers of Georgian civilians.
- 2001 – The Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University, the only university in the world exclusively for the disabled, was founded in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- 2007 – NASA launched the Dawn probe, its first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Notes
- Mohammad Najibullah appears on September 28 so Taliban takeover (1996) should not be featured in the same year.
September 27: World Tourism Day; Meskel in Eritrea and Ethiopia
Iyasu V of Ethiopia
- 1825 – Locomotion No. 1 hauled the train on the opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public railway to use steam locomotives.
- 1854 – The paddle steamer SS Arctic sank after a collision with SS Vesta, a much smaller vessel, 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Newfoundland, killing approximately 320 people.
- 1916 – Lij Iyasu (pictured), the emperor-designate of Ethiopia, was deposed in favor of his aunt, Zewditu.
- 1941 – SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,710 Liberty ships built during World War II by the United States, was launched.
- 1996 – The Taliban drove Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
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