This day in History - September 27

418 Historic Events for September 27
1933 Birth Kathleen Nolan, St Louis Mo, actress (Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside)
1934 Birth Dick Schaap, sportscaster/author (Bo Knows Bo, Instant Replay)
1934 Birth Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter (Wash Post, Entertainment Tonight)
1934 Birth Claude Jarman Jr, Nashville Tn, actor (Rio Grande, Inside Straight)
1934 Birth DAER Peake, CEO (Kleinwort Benson Group)
1934 Birth Wilford Brimley, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Gus-Our House, Cocoon)
1934 Birth Greg Morris, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Mission Impossible, Vega$)
1935 Birth Jerome Shipp, US, basketball (Olympic-gold-1964)
1935 Death Alan Gray, composer, dies at 79
1935 Event Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game and clinch NL pennant
1936 Event 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game
1936 Event Franco troops conquer Toledo
1936 Event Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder
1936 Birth Yuri Nikolayevich Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
1936 Birth Gordon Honeycombe, broadcaster/author
1937 Event 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1938 Birth Alexander Graham, Lord Mayor of London
1938 Event Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched at Glasgow
1938 Event League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China
1938 Event Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
1938 Event British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth," launches at Clydebank Scotland
1939 Event Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
1939 Birth Kathy Whitworth, Monahans Tx, golfer (7 time LPGA Player of Year)
1939 Birth Nicholas Haslam, interior designer
1939 Birth Jim Ross Lightfoot, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1985- )