Today in History

September 27

1959 - Typhoon batters Japanese island of Honshu, killing almost 5,000 people.

1962 - Army stages coup in Yemen and Colonel Abdullah Saleh becomes premier.

1992 - A Nigerian military transport plane crashes shortly after taking off from Lagos, killing all 163 people on board.

1998 - Gerhard Schroeder wins the German chancellorship, ending Helmut Kohl’s 16 years in power.

2003 - The US space shuttle Atlantis is docked successfully with Mir, bringing a replacement American astronaut to Russia’s troubled orbiting craft.

2008 - Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang completes China’s first spacewalk. 2017 - Palestine joins Interpol as a member state.