TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

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.

ON THIS DATE 1941

The United States launched the first 14 rapidly built “Liberty” military cargo vessels.

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 U.S. Department of Education.