At this time is Saturday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2025. There are 95 days left within the 12 months.
At this time in historical past:
On Sept. 27, 1996, the Taliban, the extremist Islamic motion in Afghanistan, drove the federal government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, the capital, and executed former President Najibullah.
Additionally on this date:
In 1779, John Adams was named by Congress to barter the Revolutionary Warfare’s peace phrases with Britain.
In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union throughout World Warfare II.
In 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, formally allying the World Warfare II Axis powers.
In 1964, the federal government publicly launched the report of the Warren Fee, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
In 1979, Congress gave its ultimate approval to forming the U.S. Division of Training.
In 1991, President George H.W. Bush introduced in a televised handle that he was eliminating all U.S. ground-launched battlefield nuclear weapons and known as on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.
In 2013, President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by phone, the primary dialog between American and Iranian leaders in additional than 30 years.
In 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was “one hundred pc” sure that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Courtroom nominee Brett Kavanaugh once they had been youngsters, and Kavanaugh then advised senators that he was “one hundred pc sure” he had performed no such factor. Kavanaugh was confirmed on Oct. 6 of that 12 months.
In 2021, R&B singer R. Kelly was convicted in a intercourse trafficking trial in New York after quite a few allegations of misconduct with younger ladies and kids; a federal appeals court docket upheld the convictions and his 30-year jail sentence in 2025.
In 2023, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio units a U.S. document of 371 days in house, returning to Earth from the Worldwide House Station with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.
At this time’s Birthdays:
- Musician Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) is 82.
- Actor Liz Torres is 78.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Mike Schmidt is 76.
- Singer and actor Shaun Cassidy is 67.
- Comic and podcaster Marc Maron is 62.
- Actor Gwyneth Paltrow is 53.
- Actor Indira Varma is 52.
- Musician-actor Carrie Brownstein is 51.
- Actor Anna Camp is 43.
- Rapper Lil Wayne is 43.
- Musician Avril Lavigne (AV’-rihl la-VEEN’) is 41.
- Actor Jenna Ortega is 23.
