09-27-2004, 11:40 AM
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September 27th
1389 ~ Birthday of Cosimo de Medici, Florentine ruler.
1540 ~ Jesuit Order received its charter from Pope Paul III.
1722 ~ Birthday of Samuel Adams, Patriot & Brewer.
1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Nast, political cartoonist.
1917 ~ Death of Edgar Degas, Impressionist painter.
1921 ~ Death of Engelbert Humperdinck, Composer.
1940 ~ The Tripartite Pact signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1986 ~ Cliff Burton, bassist for Metallica, died after being crushed by the band's tour bus during their European tour.
1996 ~ In Afghanistan, the Taliban captured the capital city Kabul. They then dragged former leader Mohammad Najibullah out of the U.N. compound and hanged him from a traffic light pole.
2002 ~ East Timor joins the United Nations.
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