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Sep 27, 1940: The Tripartite Pact is signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
On this day in 1940, the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. This formalizing of the alliance was aimed directly at "neutral" America--designed to force the United States to think twice before venturing in on the side of the Allies.
The Pact also recognized the two spheres of influence. Japan acknowledged "the leadership of Germany and Italy in the establishment of a new order in Europe," while Japan was granted lordship over "Greater East Asia." A footnote: There was a fourth signatory to the Pact-Hungary, which was dragged into the Axis alliance by Germany in November 1940.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
70 - Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by
Romans
489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and
is defeated again.
1066 - William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England
1290 - Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills
100,000
1312 - Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg
1331 - The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland
and the Teutonic Order is fought.
1509 - Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s
killed
1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
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 utterly defeated by the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
1694 - Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 Brit ships
sink & 3,000 die
1777 - English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia
during American Revolution
1779 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms
with Britain
1787 - Constitution submitted to states for ratification
1794 - French troops conquer Crèvecoeur
1821 - Mexican Empire declares its independence
1821 - Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish
withdraw
1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has
deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 - Railroad transportation is born with 1st track
(Stockton-Darlington)
1830 - Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed
1833 -
Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe
1834 - Charles Darwin returns to Valparaiso
1852 - George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
premieres in Troy, NY
1854 - Steamship "Arctic" sinks with 300 people on
board
1855 - George F Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle," 2nd
American opera, opens in NYC
1863 - Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station,
Arkansas
1864 - Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson) American Civil
War, Missouri: 1700 killed/injured
1864 - Centralia Massacre (Missouri): 24 unarmed Union
soldiers captured and executed by "Bloody Bill" Anderson/Frank
1864 - Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed
1877 - John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti
1881 - Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small
"crowd" of 12
1892 - Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company
1894 - Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY
1900 - Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W
42nd St NYC
1903 - Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the
song of the same name.
1905 - 1st published
blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues
1905 - Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chicago White Sox, 2-0
1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes
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.
1909 - 29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier
(61 62 57 16 61)
1910 - 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
1912 - W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st
Blues Song, 1912
1914 - Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th
hit
1916 - 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American
Indians
1916 - Emperor Lidj Jasu of Ethiopia flees
1916 - Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a
palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
1917 - Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St NYC
1917 - EHC soccer team forms in Hoensbroek Neth
1919 - British troops withdraw from Archangelsk
1919 - Democratic National Committee voted to allow female
members
1919 - Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15
strike-outs
1919 - Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Wash (1st in
every park in league in one season)
1921 - Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
1922 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
1923 - Italian troops leave occupied Korfu
1923 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs
1924 - Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating
Phils 5-1
1928 - US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government
1928 - The Republic of China is recognised by the United
States.
1930 - 34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1930 - Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
1930 - White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball
at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns
1931 - Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing
in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)
1931 - Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488)
beats Bill Terry's
1935 - Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch
NL pennant
1936 - 1st
baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game
1936 - Franco troops conquer Toledo
1936 - Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder
1937 - 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1937 - Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
1938 - British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth,"
launches at Clydebank Scotland
1938 - Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
1938 - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor
against China
1939 - Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of
resistance
1939 - White Sox host 1st "day-night"
doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 & 7-5
1940 - 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed
forces
1940 - Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching
beating Bob Feller
1940 - Nazi-Germany, Italy and Japan sign 10 year formal
alliance (Axis)
1940 - Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant
for 1st time since 1935
1941 - 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched
1942 - Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
1942 - NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a
1st down
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague,"
appointed SS-general
1942 - St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of season
1943 - Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples
1943 - Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan"
publishes KZ-Lower letter
1944 - Helmond & Oss Neth liberated
1946 - King George II of Greece returns from exile
1947 - "Sweethearts" closes at Shubert Theater NYC
after 288 performances
1948 - "Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC
for 36 performances
1950 - Dr Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize
1950 - Ezzard Charles beats Joe Louis in 15 for heavyweight
boxing title
1950 - Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in
15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx NY.
1951 - Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan
Diplomat and Nobel Laureate Ralph BuncheDiplomat and Nobel
Laureate Ralph Bunche 1953 - Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard
field goal
1953 - KCMO (now KCTV) TV channel 5 in Kansas City, MO (CBS)
begins
1953 - KNOE TV channel 8 in Monroe-West Monroe, LA (CBS)
begins broadcasting
1953 - KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins
broadcasting
1953 - KQTV TV channel 2 in Saint Joseph, MO (ABC) begins
broadcasting
1953 - St Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park,
losing 100th game
1953 - Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan
1953 - WHBQ TV channel 13 in Memphis, TN (ABC) begins
broadcasting
1953 - WMAZ TV channel 13 in Macon, GA (CBS/ABC) begins
broadcasting
1953 - WTOK TV channel 11 in Meridian, MS (ABC/CBS) begins
broadcasting
1954 - 1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush
1954 - School integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore
Md public schools
1954 - Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premieres
1957 - Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
1959 - Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
1959 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US
visit
1960 - Europe's 1st "moving pavement,"
(travelator), opens at Bank station
1961 - Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269
1961 - Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN
1962 - Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North
Yemen
1962 - US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
1963 - At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at
190,000,000
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico
Ex-soldier, drifter Lee Harvey OswaldEx-soldier, drifter Lee
Harvey Oswald 1964 - Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to
Braves
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place
1964 - Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald
acted alone
1967 - Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses
in a year
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - "Hair" opens in London
1968 - Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of
year
1968 - France refuses UK entry into common market
1970 - Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games
without an error
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1972 - 1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders
6-4 (exhibition)
1973 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record
383 of season
1973 - Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2
days)
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - -10/26] Rome: 4th bishop synod
1974 - Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's
"Woman V" for $850,000
1975 - Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain
1977 - Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 - Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education
Singer Elton JohnSinger Elton John 1979 - Elton John, sick
with flu, collapse on Hollywood Universal Ampitheater
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - WHOT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins
on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM
1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's
world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by
police after a riot forms.
1981 - "Day in Hollywood, A Night..," closes at
John Golden NY after 588 perf
1982 - Cards clinching NL East title
1982 - Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again"
1982 - Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine
Huygens-prize
1982 - John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show
1983 - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu
freed after 19 years
1983 - Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 &
drive in 70 runs
1985 - 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket
1985 - Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast
1986 - Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax
reforms
1987 - 27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 15-13 at Muirfield
Village GC (Ohio)
1987 - Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1987 - NFL players' strike
1987 - Phil Niekro final appearance & is pounded for 5
runs in 3 innings
1988 - Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated
rape story
1988 - Senate votes for major federal tax code changes
1988 - The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San
Suu Kyi is founded.
1989 - Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title
1989 - Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion
cash
1990 - Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession
1990 - Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly
1990 - Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in
Berkeley Calif
1990 - Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme
Court
1990 - Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White
House
1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - "Princesses" premieres on CBS TV
US President George H. W. BushUS President George H. W. Bush
1991 - President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert
1991 - 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg
Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins)
1992 - ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts
sacrifice of 42 animals
1992 - LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place
1992 - Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria
killing 163
1992 - Nancy Scranton wins Los Coyotes LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East
title
1992 - Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties
with 18 strike outs
1993 - Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding
charges
1993 - The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
1996 - Balt Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire
John Hirschbeck
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 skip crashes into the Million
Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
1998 - Core States Betsy King Golf Classic
1998 - Google is launched.
2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
2003 - Actress Halle Berry announces her separation from
second husband, R&B singer Eric Benet
2003 - Smart 1 satellite is launched.
2005 - Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division
title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New York Mets
2008 - CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese
person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
2012 - UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan
detailing their contesting claims for the Senkoku Islands
2012 - The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a
fast-moving streambed-in Mars
2012 - The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has
been confirmed
1540 Pope Paul III approved the charter for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), founded by St. Ignatius Loyola. 1939 Warsaw, Poland, was surrendered to the Nazis after weeks of resistance. 1959 Typhoon Vera battered the Japanese island of Honshu, killing almost 5,000 people. 1964 The Warren Commission report concluded that there was no conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. 1998 Mark McGwire hit his record-setting 69th and 70th home runs in the last game of the regular season.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/sep27.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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