27 September 2007: A Delta II Heavy rocket launched NASA's Dawn space-probe to study the dwarf planets Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt. #History #Space #exploration

27 September 2003: The SMART-1 lunar orbiter was launched from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. #History #Space #exploration

27 September 1998: The #Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.

27 September 1964: The #TSR-2 aircraft XR219 made its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire. #History #Aviation “All modern aircraft have four dimensions: Span, Length, Height and Politics. TSR2 simply got the first three right.” - Sir Sydney Camm

27 September 1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. The book inspired an environmental movement, and led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. #History

27 September 1941: The SS Patrick Henry was launched. She was to be the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. #History #WW2

27 September 1940: Representatives of Germany, Japan and Italy signed the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Tripartite Pact formally allied the Axis Powers with one another. #History #WW2

27 September 1938: The ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth was launched at the John Brown and Company shipyard in Glasgow. #History #Scotland

27 September 1888: A letter addressed to "Dear Boss", and signed "Jack the Ripper" arrived at the Central News Agency. #History #London #Whitechapel

27 September 1825: Ceremonial opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (the first public railway to use steam locomotives). #History

27 September 1822: Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the Rosetta Stone. #History #Egypt #Egyptology

27 September 1590: Pope Urban VII died just 13 days after being elected as #Pope. This is the shortest papacy to date. #History

27 September 1540: The Society of Jesus (The 'Jesuits') received its charter from Pope Paul III in the Papal bull 'Regimini militantis Ecclesiae'. #History jesuitsourcesdigital.bc.edu/3df7cmk/

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27 September 1331: The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and knights of the Teutonic Order. The battle itself was inconclusive, with both sides emphasising their successes for propaganda purposes, but appears to have been a strategic victory for the Kingdom of #Poland. #History

27 September 1066: William the Conqueror (then known as just "Guillaume le Bâtard") set sail from the mouth of the Somme River. #History #Norman

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26 September 1997: An earthquake in #Italy caused part of the Basilica of Saint Francis at Assisi to collapse. #History

26 September 1984: The United Kingdom and China agreed to a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong. The transfer would take place in 1997. #History #HongKong

26 September 1983: Stanislav Petrov identified a reported incoming missile as a computer error and not a US first strike. #History #1stColdWar Lt Col Stanislav Petrov's decision to ignore warnings is credited with averting nuclear Armageddon. (1/2)

26 September 1973: #Concorde made its first non-stop Atlantic crossing. The flight from Washington to Paris took 3 hours 32 minutes. #History #Aviation

26 September 1969: The #Beatles released Abbey Road. It was to be their last studio album. #History #TheBeatles

26 September 1960: The first televised debate between US presidential candidates (Richard Nixon and JFK) took place in Chicago. #History #USA

26 September 1953: Sugar rationing, which had been introduced on 8 January 1940, ended in Britain. #History

26 September 1950: General Douglas MacArthur announced that United Nations troops had recaptured #Seoul from North Korean forces. In reality, the operation to secure the city would continue until 28 September. # History #Korea #KoreanWar

26 September 1918: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began. #History #WW1 The Meuse-Argonne Offensive would be the largest and bloodiest operation of World War I for the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), and would continue until the end of the war.

26 September 1905: Albert #Einstein published "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" - his special theory of #relativity. #History #physics users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rtaylor/tea...

26 September 1777: British troops commanded by General Howe occupied #Philadelphia. #History #AmericanRevolution

26 September 1688: Amsterdam city council voted to support William of Orange's invasion of England. That invasion would become 'the Glorious Revolution'. #History

26 September 1687: The Parthenon in Athens was partially destroyed when a mortar shell fired by besieging Venetian forces caused an Ottoman ammunition store to explode during the Siege of the Acropolis. #History #Greece

26 September 1580: Sir Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the Earth. #History #Tudor