Today is Friday, September twenty seventh, the 271st day of 2024. There are 95 days left within the 12 months.
Today in history:
On September 27, 2018, during a daylong hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford said she was “100 percent” certain that she was sexually abused as a young person by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and Kavanaugh then told it The senators said he was “100 percent sure” he did nothing of the type.
Also on this date:
In 1779, John Adams was commissioned by Congress to barter the terms of the Revolutionary War peace with Great Britain.
In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
In 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, officially allying the Axis powers of World War II.
In 1964, the federal government publicly released the Warren Commission report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone within the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In 1979, Congress gave its final approval to the formation of the U.S. Department of Education.
In 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced in a nationally broadcast address that he would eliminate all U.S. nuclear weapons on the battlefield and called on the Soviet Union to follow this gesture.
In 1994, greater than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the “Contract with America,” a 10-point program they hoped to enact if voters put a GOP majority within the House House of Representatives would send.
In Afghanistan in 1996, the Taliban, a bunch of former seminary students, drove President Burhanuddin Rabbani's government out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
In 2013, President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had a telephone conversation, the primary conversation between American and Iranian leaders in greater than 30 years.
In 2021, R&B singer R. Kelly was convicted in a sex trafficking trial in New York after a long time of evading criminal responsibility for varied allegations of misconduct against young women and youngsters.
Today's birthdays:
- Musician Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) is 81.
- Actress Liz Torres is 77.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt is 75.
- Singer and actor Shaun Cassidy is 66.
- Comedian Marc Maron is 61.
- Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is 52.
- Actress Indira Varma is 51.
- The musician and actress Carrie Brownstein is 50.
- Actress Anna Camp is 42.
- Rapper Lil Wayne is 42.
- The musician Avril Lavigne (AV'-rihl la-VEEN') is 40.
- Tennis player Simona Halep is 33.
- Actress Jenna Ortega is 22.
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