September
27
World
Tourism Day
World Tourism
Day 2010 takes place under the theme 'Tourism and Biodiversity',
an issue that is especially timely with 2010 being celebrated
around the world as the UN International Year of Biodiversity.
Official celebrations will be hosted by China on 27 September,
with many other events taking place around the world.
Within the
framework of the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity,
this year’s World Tourism Day theme will raise awareness of
the close relationship between tourism development, biodiversity
conservation and poverty reduction. Through this year’s campaign,
UNWTO draws attention to the two most pressing global challenges
of our time: the sustainable use of environmental resources
and the eradication of extreme poverty.
Events
1066 – William
the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme
River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
1331 – The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and
the Teutonic Order is fought.
1422 – after the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign
the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy
of Lithuania
1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the
city.
1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter
from Pope Paul III.
1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the
Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the
Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United
States, for one day.
1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered
the Rosetta stone.
1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins
operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled
passenger trains.
1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board.
This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the
song of the same name.
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert
Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon
Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was
built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1916 – Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a
palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in
favor of his eldest son, King George II.
1928 – The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete
the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam
was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin
by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of
more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal
as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being
surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF
group on any mission in World War II.
1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress
approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of
China.
1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted
by Steve Allen on NBC.
1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to
exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter,
the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
1959 – Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of
Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
1961 – Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight
from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
1968 – The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre
in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure
was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final
approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet
agency.
1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop
a free Unix-like operating system.
1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
1995 – The Government of the United States unveils the first
of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a
larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city
Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing
former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
1996 – The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar
Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder
space probe.
1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims
this as its birthday.
2001 – Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher
shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then kills himself.
2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.
2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese
person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Days:
Adheritus
Vincent de Paul
September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
End of Independence War (Mexico)
French Community Holiday (French community of Belgium)
Meskel (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church, following Julian
calendar)
World Tourism Day (International)
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