Alfred Thayer Mahan
9/27/1840 - 12/1/1914
American naval strategist
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74 Cosimo de Medici
9/27/1389 - 8/1/1464
Florentine ruler
90 St. Alfonso Liguori
9/27/1696 - 8/1/1787
Italian theologian
81 Samuel Adams
9/27/1722 - 10/2/1803
American revolutionary leader
72 Benjamin Gould
9/27/1824 - 11/26/1896
American astronomer
62 Thomas Nast
9/27/1840 - 12/7/1902
American political cartoonist
80 Harry Blackstone
9/27/1885 - 11/16/1965
American magician and illusionist
88 Samuel Ervin
9/27/1896 - 4/23/1985
American senator from North Carolina; chairman of [...]

On Sept. 27, 1964, the Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy. (Go to article.)
1779 John Adams was named to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s peace terms with Britain.
1825 The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.
1928 The United States said [...]