On This Day:
Saturday September 27, 2014 This is the 270th day of the year, with 95 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: marine life The diversity of microscopic organisms in the ocean is actually 10 to 100 times greater than previously estimated. A single liter of seawater may contain more than 20,000 kinds of microorganisms.
Holidays St. Vincent de Paul feast day.
California: Cabrillo Day.
Events 1514 - The Spanish crown granted explorer Juan Ponce de Leon the title Military Governor of Bimini (an island in the Bahamas) and Florida and gave him permission to colonize those regions.
1540 - The Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic missionary organization, received its charter from Pope Paul III. It was founded by Ignatius de Loyola, a Spanish soldier turned priest, in 1534.
1669 - The island of Crete fell to the Ottoman Turks after a 21-year siege.
1791 - Jews in France were granted French citizenship.
1916 - Constance of Greece declared war on Bulgaria.
1920 - Eight Chicago White Sox players were charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.
1928 - U.S. recognized the Nationalist Chinese government.
1938 - Cunard introduced its largest passenger liner, the Queen Mary, at Clydebank. Queen Elizabeth, consort of George VI, launched it.
1939 - Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1940 - The Tripartite Pact, a ten-year military and economic alliance strengthening the Axis alliance, was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
1954 - "The Tonight Show" premiered on television.
1959 - A typhoon devastated the island of Honshu, Japan, killing nearly 5000 people.
1964 - The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
1979 - Congress approved the establishment of the Department of Education, the 13th US cabinet agency.
1996 - Taliban, a group of Islamic fundamentalists, seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and hanged Mohammad Najibullah, the former Afghan president.
Births 1601 - Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43),
1722 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary patriot and statesman.
1840 - Thomas Nast, American political cartoonist and creator of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
1862 - Louis Botha, first president of South Africa.
1917 - Louis Auchincloss, American novelist.
1926 - Jayne Meadows, American actress, wife of Steve Allen, sister of Audrey Meadows.
1934 - Greg Morris, American actor.
1939 - Kathy Whitworth, American women's golf champion.
1947 - Meat Loaf (Marvin Aday), American musician, singer, in Dallas.
Deaths 1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist and suffragette.
1979 - Gracie Fields, English singer and comedian, born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, NW England.
1993 - James Doolittle, American aviator and army officer who led the first air raid on Japan during World War II.
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