About two months after returning home in the summer of 1779, following a diplomatic trip to France, Continental Congress appointed John Adams to negotiate with the British on September 27, 1779.

He would depart with his son John Quincy Adams (again) and his other son Charles that November but they wouldn’t arrive in Paris until February 1780.

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Considered to be the first commercially successfully blues song “Memphis Blues” was first self-published by W.C. Handy on September 27, 1912 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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American businessman, Joy Morton, who incorporated the Morton Salt Company, was born on September 27, 1855 in Detroit, Michigan.

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On September 27, 1854 the SS Arctic, traveling from New York to England crashed into another steamship near Newfoundland.
Over 400 people were on the ship, but the limited number of available lifeboats could not accommodate half that amount.


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“The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.”

– Samuel Adams, who was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” was published on September 27, 1962. As a result of information in the book the pesticide DDT was banned for agricultural use and the environmental movement began to grow. Carson is shown here in 1940 when employed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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The camera that was used to create the first 3D feature film “The Power of Love” which was released on September 27, 1922.

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On September 27, 1903 Southern Railway mail train 97 derailed and plunged off a 45-foot trestle in Danville Virginia, killing or injuring all 18 aboard. The incident inspired the song “Wreck of the Old 97,” released in 1924. Recorded by many artists, it is believed to be the first country song to sell a million copies.

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Photo of Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford (right) and Slappy White as Melvin on Sanford & Son in 1972

This was nearly 25 years after they first met in the late 1940s and formed a successful comedy team

Melvin Edward “Slappy” White was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 27, 1921.

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Scranton, PA
Hampton Breaker–Culm (coal mine waste material) bank

September 27, 1905

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Barbeque and Balloon at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle

September 27, 1909

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A U.S. Marine regiment moves toward the ruins of a bombed out church north of Hue in Vietnam.

September 27, 1967

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President Hoover presenting the Medal of Honor to World War I hero Michael Valente from New York State.
Valente along with a fellow soldier attacked German enemy positions, successfully ended their machine gun fire and captured prisoners.

– Photo is dated September 27, 1929

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