Chicago Daily Tribune

ON SEPTEMBER 27 ...

In 1722 patriot Samuel Adamswas born in Boston.

In 1779 John Adams was named to negotiate the Revolutionary-War’s peace terms with Britain.

In 1935 the Chicago Cubs clinched the NL pennant and won their 21st consecutive game with a doubleheader sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cubs won the pennant with the opening-game victory.

In 1939 Warsaw capitulated to the German invasion force after 19 days of resistance near the start of

World War II.

In 1942 Glenn Miller and his orchestra performed together for the last time, in Passaic, N.J., prior to Miller’s entry into the Army. (He would die in December 1944, when his plane vanished over the English Channel.)

In 1959 a typhoon battered Japan’s main island, Honshu, killing nearly 5,000 people.

In 1964 the Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President JohnF. Kennedy.

In 1989 Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc. agreed to a $3.4 billion cash buyout by Sony Corp.

In 1994 more than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the U.S. Capitol steps to sign the “Contract with America,” a 10-point platform the pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.

In 1995 the government unveiled its redesigned $100 bill, featuring a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin.

In1996 the Taliban, aband of militant former Islamic seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, Afghanistan, captured the capital and executed former Soviet- appointed leader, Najibullah.

In1998 St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire hit his 69th and 70th home runs of the season to established a major league record, surpassing Roger Maris’ 38-year-old mark. (The Cubs’ Sammy Sosa finished the season behind him with 66 homers.)

In 2000, in Sydney, the U.S. Olympic baseball team beat Cuba 4-0 to capture its first baseball gold medal. Venus Williams became only the second player to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Olympics in the same year with her 6-2, 6-4 victory over Elena Dementieva.