Today In History

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 27, the 271st day of 2016. There are 95 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1964: The government publicly released the report of the Warren Commission, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

ON THIS DATE

1540: Pope Paul

III issued a papal bull establishing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, as a religious order.

1779: John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s peace terms with Britain.

1854: The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurred when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survived.

1928: The United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.

1979: Congress gave its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.

1991: President George H.W. Bush announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.

2001: resident George W. Bush asked the nation’s governors to post National Guard troops at airports as a first step toward federal control of airline security.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actress Kathleen Nolan is 83. Actor Wilford Brimley is 82. Actor Claude Jarman Jr. is 82. Author Barbara Howar is 82. World Golf Hall of Famer Kathy Whitworth is 77. Singer-musician Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) is 73. Rock singer Meat Loaf is 69. Actress Liz Torres is 69. Actor A Martinez is 68. Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt is 67. Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is 66. Singer Shaun Cassidy is 58. Comedian Marc Maron is 53. Rock singer Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind) is 52. Former Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is 50. Actor Patrick Muldoon is 48. Singer Mark Calderon is 46. Actress Amanda Detmer is 45. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is 44. Rock singer Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down) is 38. Christian rock musician Grant Brandell (Underoath) is 35. Actress Anna Camp is 34. Rapper Lil’ Wayne is 34. Singer Avril Lavigne is 32. Bluegrass singer/musician Sierra Hull is 25.