September 27

People born on this day are Libra.

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1992
Palestinian prisoners went on a 15-day hunger strike.
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1996
The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory; an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is established.
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1996
Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N oil spill in Portland, Maine.
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1998
The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
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2001
In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
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2003
The SMART-1 satellite is launched.
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2007
NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
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2008
CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
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2014
63 people are killed in an eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan.
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2019
Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.
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2020
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan launches an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.
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2024
Hurricane Helene devastates the Carolinas as a tropical storm, killing hundreds and injuring more.
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