TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2022. There are 95 days left in the year.
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
On Sept. 27, 1996, in Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
1779 — John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s peace terms with Britain.
1825 — The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
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.
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.
1979 — Congress gave its final approval to forming the US Department of Education.
1991 — President George H.W. Bush announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating all US battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.
1994 — More than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the US Capitol to sign the “Contract with America,” a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Actor Kathleen Nolan is 90. Actor Claude Jarman Jr. is 89. Author Barbara Howar is 89. Singer-musician Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) is 80. Actor Liz Torres is 76. Actor A Martinez is 75. Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt is 74. Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is 73. Actor/ opera singer Anthony Laciura is 72. Singer and actor Shaun Cassidy is 65. Comedian Marc Maron is 60. Rock singer Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind) is 59. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is
57. Actor Patrick Muldoon is
55. Singer Mark Calderon is
53. Actor Amanda Detmer is
52. Actor Gwyneth Paltrow is
51. Actor Indira Varma is 50. Rock singer Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down) is 45. Christian rock musician Grant Brandell (Underoath) is 42. Actor Anna Camp is 41. Rapper Lil’ Wayne is 41. Singer Avril Lavigne is 39. Bluegrass singer/musician Sierra Hull is 32. Actor Sam Lerner is 31. Actor Ames McNamara is 15.